Here at Creative World we use activeCollab to manage and collaborate with client projects every day. It’s a great application and I don’t know where we’d be without it. Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on a new theme for it which I’ve decided to make available to the aC community.

This theme is called Access. Using web 2.0 influences, Access is designed with a soft, easy to view interface while still highlighting important events and actions to the user.

A new web browser called Chrome was launched into the world today. It’s built by Google, is completely open-source, is currently only available on PC and is aimed to “make the web faster, safer, and easier”.

From a design perspective, one of the first things you’ll notice is the minimalist styling. Similar to google.com, Chrome’s design is striped down, fast and functional with very few bells and whistles. I have never seen a browser like this, and I actually like it a lot.

Pritt (a producer of stationary supplies) has commissioned Build to create a tv commercial to promote their new correction rollers called ‘MyStyle’. The results are simply beautiful. The commercial (which will only be aired in France) shows graphic designer Michael C. Place go through the complete creative process - from rough sketches to finished product - as he creates an original hand painted artwork using the new Pritt supplies. The music throughout the clip is from the awesome Midnight Juggernauts from Melbourne Australia.

Just a quick message to let everyone know that our holidays are over and we’re back at the desk, refreshed and ready to go! Please get in touch with your web design or graphic design needs! Personally travelling around the country was excellent.

Enjoying a cold crown on sunset at Uluru

We’re taking a break and will be on holidays for the next 3 weeks. Personally I’m planning on travelling to the Whitsundays, Uluru and Sydney during this time away. Creative World will be closed between 30th July until the last week of August 2008.

Please send any enquires to us can still be sent through to us, but please do not expect a response until end of August. Emergency support will still be available.

Insight have recently launched a campaigne called Dopamine which consists of some simple amazing and very creative underwater shots. The black and white series use motorbikes, (upside down) bedroom furniture and naked girls as props - take this and mix it with with talented surfers and Insight have produced some mind blowing creative images.

Location: Bali
Vision/Direction: Steve Gorrow, Fraser Anderson
Photography: Dustin Humphrey
Surfers: Luke Stedman, Kai Otton, Warren Smith, Jason Apparicio, Jared Mell, Made Lana & The Jamaican Surf Team.

If Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 is crashing for an unknown reason, it might be worth checking your CSS file sizes. Over the last 4 days I have been pulling my hair out over why Dreamweaver CS3 suddenly crashed, and stopped working, period. Here’s what happened, the problem and the solution:

Ok, now I know this isn’t breaking news by any means - but if you haven’t seen Adobe’s super sexy CS3 wallpaper / desktop backgrounds then you and your desktop are in for a treat. Courtesy of Terry White, 5 full coloured beautiful wallpapers (styled around the Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) Packages) are available for direct download from his website. A copy can also be found on Flickr.

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Creative World is now on Facebook! Visit us at facebook.com/pages/Creative-World/8338014562. And while you’re there why not show some love and become a fan!

Letters & Numbers has designed some very beautiful t-shirts for the Nike Euro 2008 Football Tournament. The 16 limited edition shirts are for the countries that qualified. There’s also a lot of other nice work on the Letters & Numbers website - well worth a look.