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LDP Creative reporter Alistair Houghton on Ignite Liverpool ( #IgniteLiv )

THE much-maligned PowerPoint presentation has become a byword for corporate tedium - but Ignite Liverpool proved that a showcase of slideshows can be anything but dull.

LDP Creative blogger Dougal Paver shares his views on the Liverpool Daily Post's new look
TELLING readers of LDP Creative that good design sells is a lesson in the bleeding obvious. So there endeth the lesson.
Nevertheless, it would take a cold eye not to be won over by the Liverpool Daily Post's re-design.

MULTI-AWARD winning David Milligan-Croft has been appointed as the new creative director at Wirral agency ICE.

MERSEYSIDE'S creative sector will start growing again in 2010 after a year of consolidation - that's the view from some of the industry's key players.

Paul Taylor of Northwest Vision and Media gives his take on 2009 and the year ahead

THE past year was a tough one for business and the creative industries have not escaped this.

ARCHITECTURE practice BDP is moving its Merseyside practice to Liverpool One - the £1bn shopping and leisure complex it masterplanned.

Stuart Jackson of Wirral marketing agency ICE on his decade in the creative sector

THERE'S no getting away from the explosion in new technologies, which have upped the pace and given creative businesses more control over almost every aspect of their work over the past decade.

A PILOT scheme to help creative and digital businesses attract investment got started this week.
The Fast Company programme, developed by support agency Northwest Vision & Media (NWVM), aims to help firms get "investor ready" to secure the funding they need to grow more quickly.

A CHESHIRE company is using technology developed by university researchers to help it take on the giants of the personalised greetings card industry.
The directors of Daresbury-based Whamoosh! launched their new website six weeks ago, and say they want to claim a quarter of the personalised greetings card market within four years.

Regular blogger Dougal Paver on the need for innovation

INNOVATION is one of the mainstays of marketing.  Blokes in red-rimmed glasses team up with geeks in bottle-end specs to analyse product lifecycles, before consulting with the men in white coats to dream up something new and wizzy to extend its shelf-life.