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Five Minutes With... Ben Templeton

7th Nov 2011 ⁄ Ben Templeton graduated from Bournemouth University in 2005 with first class honours in Interactive Media Production. His final year project, a rich media exploration of Amsterdam, was nominated for a BIMA award. Following a spell freelancing in Bristol he co-founded Thought Den...

Readers' Studios: Alison Jacobs

26th Sep 2011 ⁄ Readers' Studios is a lot like Readers' Wives, except we're talking about photos of some of the most stimulating creative workspaces instead of... well, you know. Today we are taking a peek at the studio of Alison Jacobs, an artist from Bristol who lives next door to a nuclear power station. Alison is showing her work at...

Readers' Studios: Leaff Design

9th Sep 2011 ⁄ Readers' Studios is a lot like Readers' Wives, except we're talking about photos of some of the most stimulating creative workspaces instead of... well, you know. Today we're taking a peek at the studio of Leaff Design, a small graphic design company in Worcester founded by Kaitie Good...

Five minutes with... Sara Barbas

5th Sep 2011 ⁄ Sara Barbas is a Bristol-based Writer-Director with an international track record in the field of animation. Sara has been working in the animation industry since 1997 in different roles, having mainly freelanced for Aardman Animations and the BBC. We spent five minutes chatting to Sara...

Five minutes with... The White Balance

11th Aug 2011 ⁄ The White Balance - a Bristol based CGI and Animation studio recently created 10 short 2D animations for ToryBoy The Movie. The film produced by Walsh Bros has been shortlisted for a prestigious Grierson Trust 2011 award for Best Documentary on a Contemporary Issue....

Review: Nozstock - The Hidden Valley 2011

1st Aug 2011 ⁄ This was my second time at Nozstock: The Hidden Valley, a perfect little family-friendly music festival down in Bromyard, Herefordshire. Recently recommended in my Best Small Festivals article, I had butterflies in my stomach as I turned off the M5 and started the short, winding journey to the event...

Five minutes with… Robb Green

14th Jul 2011 ⁄ Robb’s been a digital creative of one sort or another since 2005 - when he realised that his twin obsessions, the internet and colouring in, could be combined for fun and profit. In the last six years he’s art directed and designed award-winning campaigns for people like Louis Vuitton, Speedo, British Red Cross and WWF (not the wrestling), and ...

Review: BLOC Weekender 2011

18th Mar 2011 ⁄ Now it's been a long time since I enjoyed some good old electronic music, so when the chance to go to BLOC presented itself, I jumped at the opportunity, taking my younger brother Alex along for a treat. Loading up the car with enough food and drink to last us the weekend, we drove down to the Butlins Resort in Minehead where the three-day event wa...

Five minutes with... Kyleigh Orlebar of Kyleigh Pa...

9th Mar 2011 ⁄ Kyleigh Orlebar of Kyleigh Papercuts is a UK based graphic designer with a love of typography, words, song lyrics and papercutting. You can read all about her work on her blog here and you can visit Kyleigh's beautiful papercut shop [here](http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/partners/kyleighspapercuts/product...

Five minutes with... Fabio Benedetti

10th Feb 2011 ⁄ Fabio Benedetti is a creative Italian Designer and design-enthusiast. He moved to the UK in 2007 after studying Languages and Humanities Computing at University of Pisa in Tuscany. He is now working as Interactive Designer at Thinkology, which is an Exeter-based creative agency.

In the evening he does some freelance or personal works and in 2009...

Interview: Tom Lane of Ginger Monkey Design

29th Sep 2010 ⁄ Creative Boom Bristol is very excited to have interviewed designer, illustrator and typographer Tom Lane of Ginger Monkey Design.