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Apple could be in for a bruising legal fight with rival Creative over the technology used in iPod music players.
Creative boss Sim Wong Hoo has told the BBC he plans to "pursue aggressively" a US patent it owns on a system used to navigate music on digital players.
In August, Creative revealed it had won a patent in the US for the way music tracks are organised and navigated on a player through a hierarchical system using three or more screens.
The announcement prompted speculation that Creative could seek royalties from Apple, though patent cases can drag on for years.
Creative chairman Sim Wong Hoo told the BBC News website that the company was already talking to various parties about the patent but refused to be drawn on specifics.
"We will pursue all manufacturers that use the same navigation system," said Mr Sim. "This is something we will pursue aggressively.
"Hopefully this will be friendly, but people have to respect intellectual property."
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Adobe Systems Incorporated announced its call for entries to the sixth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards.
The premier student design competition recognizes the world's most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers and computer artists from the top design, film, and broadcast institutions.
This year's competition will extend the program's scope to 24 participating countries.
"The Adobe Design Achievement Awards celebrates student creativity and reinforces Adobe's continued commitment to design education," said Melissa Dyrdahl, senior vice president of corporate marketing and communications at Adobe.
"It is truly inspiring to see how this event dissolves boundaries between cultures and unleashes great talents through the convergence of technology and creative arts."
For the first time, students in Belgium, China, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, and Taiwan will join their counterparts from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom in submitting projects in nine categories.
This year's categories include live action, motion graphics, environmental graphics/packaging , print multi-page,
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Fiskars is delighted to announce two recent papercrafting acquisitions; Cloud 9 Design and Heidi Grace Designs.
Cloud 9 Design, based in Minnesota, features papers that are hand-made and then reproduced to give a beautiful, three-dimensional appearance.
They are well-known for their Themed Paper Collections, Innovative Page Coasters, WoodStone Collection, and most recently their innovative Page Coasters and Photo Banner Collection.
"Simple, time-saving, cutting edge and upscale" are the words Nancy Martinez and Amy Brinkman, who founded Cloud 9 Design, use to describe their products.
Heidi Grace Kress is a creative young artist whose Washington based company features fun and whimsical stickers, papers, and embellishments for scrapbookers and paper crafters.
In addition, Heidi Grace Designs recently introduced its successful line of Pocket Scraps, which includes cards and envelopes that coordinate with colorful stickers, rub-ons, acrylic and plastic embellishments to make it simple to create the perfect personalized effect.
"We are very excited about adding these two outstanding companies to our portfolio as we continue to build the consumable portion of our business," says Chad Vincent, President of Fiskars School, Office and Craft Division.
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Veer, a provider of visual elements and design-related products, announced today that in 2005 the company has been honored with ten awards recognizing excellence in graphic design.
Veer received awards for its direct-marketing catalogs and custom-designed T-shirts.
The American Graphic Design Awards, HOW magazine, and Applied Arts magazine are among the award organizations praising Veer for its design efforts.
"We're blown away by how many design awards we've received this year." says Sheldon Popiel, Creative Director at Veer.
"It's nice to be recognized for producing some of the best creative work in the industry.
We strive to produce the type of unique and compelling work that gets us, as designers, to sit up and take notice."
"These awards tell us that Veer's pieces are resonating with our peers in the design community.
Our team has a great synergy and it's great to be honored for something that we enjoy doing so much."
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The Shift calendar competition started in 2003 with an aim to discover fresh creators.
The number of entries have increased year by year and have received 1253 entries from 47 countries this year.
12 carefully selected works will decorate each month of the Shift calendar, creating the feeling of a little art book.
These selected works will also be exhibited and sold at PRINT'EM for a year with support by PRINT'EM, a graphic print center operated by Mitsubishi Paper MIlls Limited.
There also will be held an exhibition of each works printed on A0 size poster at the gallery cafe SOSO on December 2005.
The 12 chosen works are the pieces which will be used in the Calendar.
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