Well, not quite, but you'd have been forgiven for thinking it had. For, on Wednesday January 27th, Steve Jobs (Apple's CEO) launched the company's latest 'must have' gadget - the ipad.

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Check out this recent advertising campaign for a movie that came out last year called The House Of The Devil, it was a low budget independent movie and they developed these beautiful designs that had an almost 80's feel to them - braver than a lot of mainstream Hollywood poster designs around at the moment, and the retro designs have provoked a lot of excitement in movie-goers. 

A strong visual campaign has the power to get people talking, even if they are not in the profession, and with retro graphics style making a comeback, hopefully this nostalgia will encourage more people to appreciate this style of graphic image making. To promote the film further the company even sent out copies on VHS - now thats cool. 

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Hi David here, and I'm very excited about the news we can now share of our sucess in tendering for the Portico Project in Chester.

Portico is an EU funded programme linking the cities of Chester, Utrecht, Ghent and Cologne to demonstrate the use of heritage for economic development. Our remit is to plan and implement a programme of interpretation for the City Walls and Towers, with an emphasis on the use of new media.

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If you haven't yet joined the wonderful world of Apple's amazing iPhone and iPod Touch devices then we don't want you to feel too left out. Just for you, we've produced a simple 'walk-through' video of our unique new app "WildSpy". So now you too can get a flavour of the latest word in mobile interpretation.

We've hosted the video on our Vimeo and YouTube channels, just click the links below and take a wander through WildSpy.

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Wow, what a controversial thing to say! But hear me out before falling off your chair, shaking your fist or sighing in desperation. Amazon recently announced that, for the first time ever, 'ebook' sales outstripped the sale of traditional books. The day? Christmas Day 2009.

So, what are ebooks? Basically, digitised versions of books that can be read on electronic devices. In terms of format, they have been around for donkeys years, but have never really taken off. As I'm sure you more than aware, reading text on a computer screen for long periods of time isn't comfortable or particularly relaxing on the eye. Website, blog posts and short articles are fine, but after sitting at a computer desk all day, the last thing most of us want to do is spend long periods of our leisure time at one. Reading books is a relaxing leisure pursuit - we read on the sofa, in the bath, lying in bed (insert personal preference here!).

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So, here goes my first official IM blog. Being one of the project management team members I am quite used to spilling out verbage. However as I pen (or rather type this) I am struck strangely dumb. 'A mix of personal and professional' my mind is telling me, 'practical and helpful', 'interesting and engaging'...not much then!

What on earth can I talk about given my 'just-got-back-from-an-extended-Christmas-break' state of mind? As my brain starts to thaw following a long period of inactivity I'm afraid that all that comes to mind are snowmen (or should that be snow people?).

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What are you like at reading maps?

I've found that some people do it quite naturally, for others they may as well be trying to follow a serendipitous child's first crayon drawing.

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Hundreds of schools are closed today but our Devon office - The Old School, is open for business as usual. Happy new year to you all, and all the best for what is already looking to be a very exciting and busy 2010 for Imagemakers, home and abroad.

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Give the person you love (or the one you forgot to get a present for...) WildSpy this Christmas.

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The pressure is on to meet a looming pre-Christmas deadline. A crucial Skype meeting is called between Project Manager and Designer to discuss project status and next steps:

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