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October 21st, 2009 MUMBAI, India - Frameboxx Animation & Visual Effects, India's fastest growing network of Media & Entertainment training centers, today announced the launch of Designboxx courses. A brand new initiative, the Designboxx courses have been developed with an aim of preparing the next generation of students appearing for entrance examinations to the best design schools of the world.

September 29th, 2009 THE HAGUE, The Netherlands - Fresh water from the tap will soon be available everywhere in Romania. From 6 to 9 October, a team of Dutch water experts will visit four southern Provinces (Giurgu, Calarasi, Buzao, and Ilfov) to demonstrate how even the most remote municipalities can offer their residents clean and fresh drinking water.

September 6th, 2009 LONDON - - Colwyn Elder Takes an Equity Stake and the Role of Director of Planning & Strategy in The Hunting Dynasty - the Start-up Advertising Agency For Sustainable Products & Services. - Colwyn Elder, Awarded International Planner And Co-Founder of The Brand Planning Partnership Green Sky Thinking, to Look After Planning and Strategy for Hunting Dynasty Clients.

September 3rd, 2009 LONDON - - London Designer Opens up NY Fashion Week Event to Public Gareth Pugh will for the first time have a fashion week presence in New York, presenting his new film directed by Ruth Hogben at MAC & Milk, 450 West 15th Street in the Meatpacking District on Sunday 13 September. Fashion Week guests will attend a private viewing between 8 - 10pm at Milk Studios on 450 West 15th Street, after which, from 10pm until midnight, it will be opened up to the public including design school students, at 449 W 14th Street.

August 26th, 2009 COPENHAGEN - With the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) lurking in the near future, innovative designers are finding new ways of battling climate change. Can a curtain store and save energy? Yes, and it is just one of many new Danish design concepts that will be presented at the international exhibition 'It's a Small World' during the upcoming Copenhagen Design Week.

June 28th, 2009 OTTAWA - - Highly anticipated application for creative professionals has new features for workgroups and direct access from Adobe Creative Suite 4 GridIron Software, the leading provider of workflow and performance tools for creative professionals, today announced that GridIron Flow, the first-of-its-kind visual workflow manager, is now shipping and available for immediate purchase. GridIron Flow gives creative professionals and workgroups the ability to see, access, and share all their project files in one simple, elegant interface.

June 22nd, 2009 AMSTERDAM - PimTim, the online marketplace for graphic design, used its own platform (www.pimtim.com) to challenge creative people from all over the world to design its new identity. Today, PimTim shows its identity and website to the world.

April 21st, 2009 AMSTERDAM - The Dutch market leader in online marketing software E-Village launches Clang today. This worlds' first event driven marketing 'Software as a Service' is a unique mix of CRM, Campaign Management, and Email Marketing, all put into one application.

April 7th, 2009 LONDON - Design & communications agency Living Designs today relaunches as Living Group with a brand new PR division rounding out a full complement of design, digital and communications services. The decision to launch Living PR is based on the need to keep pace with clients' rapidly evolving demands and offer them a truly integrated communications and marketing service.

April 7th, 2009 NIEUWEGEIN, The Netherlands - As of today both the Dutch and English versions of the annual report are available for reference on www.ballast-nedam.nl. On the website you will also find the agenda and explanatory notes, together with the other documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders on Wednesday 6 May.

September 24th, 2009 ROTTERDAM - The Netherlands will focus on industrial design at the "Design Cross-over Rotterdam" conference here Friday to promote India-Dutch collaboration, the European nation's India desk said Thursday. "The roundtable conference in Rotterdam shall open doors to opportunities between Rotterdam and India in integrated and sustainable design and the related design sectors," the Netherlands India desk said in a statement.

August 25th, 2009 LONDON - If reports are to be believed, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has made a 'disastrous' decision over tandem rotor helicopters Chinook Mk3's, which are meant for complex operations. In 1995, the ministry had agreed to buy eight Chinook Mk3s from Boeing for 259 million pounds, and wanted to fit its own software in place of the avionics software, which would have cost another 40 million pounds.

May 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - The graduation of the creative designer students of the Army Institute of Fashion Designing (AIFD) in Bangalore was marked by a gala fashion show. Several models sashayed down the ramp at this colourful fashion-cum-passing out parade that was aptly titled Design Dapple-2009 and provided an insight of the students' creative traits.

September 15th, 2009 SEOUL - GM Daewoo hopes to make inroads into the mini-car market with its first such vehicle now on sale in South Korea and due to come to Europe at the start of 2010. It will be assembled at GM plants in India, Vietnam, Columbia and Uzbekistan.

March 17th, 2009 HONG KONG - An anticipated $500 million expansion of Hong Kong's struggling Disneyland theme park has been put on hold, a news report said Tuesday. Disney has laid off 30 planners and halted all creative and design work on the expansion after learning the Hong Kong government had no timetable for the work, the South China Morning Post reported, citing unnamed sources.

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - A British company has come up with new airplane designs that have interiors like a tube train. The most striking feature of the design is its seating arrangement where passengers would sit on seats with their backs towards the windows.

August 26th, 2009 Choice Hotels picks Leo Burnett for creative adsCHICAGO — Choice Hotels International Inc. said Wednesday that it named Leo Burnett USA as its new creative advertising agency.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - Rapper Kanye West has lashed out at people claiming that he dresses like a 'gay', insisting that it is just his creative mind that is responsible for his bizarre outfits. The 'Good Life' hitmaker, who will soon be launching his own jeans label, claims that he is immensely creative, and that is the reason why his dressing statement is likened to gay men.

March 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Forget the recession. Even in good times the key to survival in the fashion world lies in designers diversifying, says veteran stylist Raghavendra Rathore, who himself has spread his wings to areas like jewellery and software and has also tied up with a leading fabric manufacturer.

June 23rd, 2009 Pirates free cargo ship near Somalia, crewman deadTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch Defense Ministry says Somali pirates have released a hijacked cargo ship aboard which one crew member was fatally shot. The ministry says Dutch marines are escorting the MV Marathon to a safe port.