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The familiar 3-pin UK plug was designed in the 1940s but it’s the bulkiest in the world. An RCA design student has reinvented it… http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3864:rca-student-radically-improves-the-uk-plug (I still think we should be looking at integrated DC circuits in houses – do away with all these bulky hot transformers which so many appliances use now…)

Creative Boom Bath is a blog and online community aimed at the creative industries in and around Bath. It is run by Creative Boom magazine in partnership with Highlight PR in Bath, a specialist PR agency for creative firms. tallhatDesign is featured (Dec 1st 2009) • www.creativeboom.co.uk/bath And don’t forget www.creativebath.org for more creative industry news …more

The Globe Inn at Frampton Cotterell near Bristol wanted a website that would be easy for them to update. We designed and built the site using WordPress as the CMS. We also took the photographs and build the Frome Valley Walkway Google map to help promote the pub. • www.theglobeframptoncotterell.co.uk

“Wherever the Need” are a Bath-based charity who provide water facilities and long-term sanitation to specific parts of Africa and India. As part of their PR and awareness activity we helped plan and build 2 campaign websites this year; Doorway to Dignity and Dinners for Dignity, which encourage people to get involved in fundraising and …more

Puzzles.com is now featuring two of our puzzles in it’s “expert” section. I guess that means they’re difficult… Jigscale is a mix of tetris and a jigsaw, with the added twist that you can scale the pieces. • www.puzzles.com/PuzzleLinks/Expert.htm Fourbyfour is a simple grid of squares in two colours, and the aim is to get …more

This looks interesting: beta launch: www.fontcapture.com Let’s you create an actual font file for Mac or PC

Logo of the day at the ‘Logo from Dreams’ Awards website. Our Seed to Plate logo was featured 1 September 2009 and our Widjiti Wines logo last year. See both here: http://www.logofromdreams.com/?s=tallhat.

http://shopifythemegallery.com has featured our Shopify design for Bibico Fairtrade Fashion. “Bibico is a UK-based women’s Fairtrade fashion shop. A clean bespoke Shopify theme designed by tallhat.com and developed in partnership with iamkeir.com” http://shopifythemegallery.com/2009/08/bibico