ThinkBuzan is a creative software company based in Cardiff, Wales.

We are looking for an Illustrator/Graphic Designer with a well-rounded, clear and likeable style to join our busy team in the heart of Cardiff Bay. Applicants must have a strong sense of form and be able to produce both foreground and background elements quickly and at a high standard.

Knowledge of Photoshop or Illustrator is also required.

The placement will be for approximately 5 weeks (full time hours) at our offices in Cardiff Bay.

FILE BASED PRODUCTION INDUSTRY TRAINING EVENT
IN CARDIFF AND CAERNARFON
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CAERNARFON

Date: 22nd of June 2010
Venue: Stiwdio 2, Y Galeri, Caernarfon

CARDIFF

Date: 24th of June 2010
Venue: The Theatre, Urdd Centre, Cardiff Bay

Want to know more about the challenges of broadcast production using a Tapeless Workflow?

A one day event covering:

• The Red Camera
• File Based Production
• Storage and Archive
• Real life experience test cases by Boomerang and Mwnci

Since 2005 the Cardiff Design Festival has been running to celebrate, provoke, inform and inspire with design.

At venues across the city a whole spectrum of different events will take place including talks, workshops and exhibitions.

Olwen Moseley, director of the Festival, at a pre-launch event at Chapter Arts Centre on Monday 17th May, called for more people to get involved.

She said: “One of the things that makes for a successful festival is when it’s a community event. We want the design community to run events, come up with ideas and get people involved.”

Last night I attended a workshop in the Old NatWest Bank on Bute Street to discuss the functions and facilities of a Digital Media Centre planned for Roath Basin. A few friendly faces attended in the form of Neil Cocker, Julian Sykes, Laura Thomas, Mark Johnson and Tom Beardshaw, along with many others from sides of the sector that I have no clue about. We all came together to take part in the one off workshop, pouring ideas needs and wants for the centre onto sheets of Flipchart strewn across the floor.

Big Little City is an exciting new project that aims to explore peoples connection to their city and enhance a sense of belonging.

It is a celebration of the city’s creative talent, bringing together a collaborative and community led collection of work encompassing photography, visual art, film, animation, illustration, painting, graffiti written word, sound, music and performance.

Small business and organisations from the creative and digital sectors are invited to find out about emerging plans for a new digital media centre building in Roath Basin, Cardiff and make their needs known.

An open invitation is being made for a workshop event taking place at The Old Nat West Bank, Bute Street Cardiff from 5.30 – 7.30 pm on Monday 17th May 2010.

The Welsh Assembly Government is investing in this project as part of its drive to ensure the right policies and structures are in place to build a more sustainable economy following the recession.

A new collaborative film project will run on zero budget to challenge negative portrayals of the city and promote its underground music scene.

Seen Cardiff will track the progressions and developments in getting a team together to make the documentary film on zero budget – making a scrapbook of the creative process which is headed up by local writer and blogger Helia Phoenix.

Read the full article at http://www.guardian.co.uk/cardiff/2010/may/11/cardiff-new-collaborative-...

Designer Violence drew on Milgi's window and Ben Smith filmed it. Great bar, great people, great day. Go and see what they've done for yourself, Milgi is on City Road, Roath, Cardiff.

Red Green & Blue are a boutique consultancy specialising in digital creativity, backed up by solid strategy and bullet-proof development. Based in Cardiff, Wales; working with clients all over the UK, and a number in Europe too. Our services start with creative research and strategy, passing through branding, design for off and on-line, web development, content development; all the way out to pure consultation and project management.

Poets MIKE JENKINS and THAER AL-SHAYEI perform their latest work at the Poetry on Tap reading series, now in its new home, the Old Orleans, 19 Church St (off High St), on Sunday, 16 May, 2pm.

MIKE JENKINS's book Wanting to Belong was adapted for BBC Wales as a drama and for Channel 4 as a programme for schools. An award-winning writer, many of his stories have been broadcast on Radio Wales and Radio 4. His poetry collection Moor Music is forthcoming from Seren in October.