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Friday 9th July saw the Leap team deliver a very successful Dott Cornwall Eco Design Challenge Awards hosted at Tremough Campus by Cornish education consultant Will Coleman.
The Scarlet, Cornwall's luxury eco hotel and recent overall winner of the Cornwall Business Awards and recipient of the awards for Best New Business and Best Website have just received yet more good news.
A new initiative developed by the Design Council and funded by the Regional Development Agencies is going to help businesses discover and harness the real fiscal benefits of design.
David and Katy run West Cornwall Adventure (WCA) on The Lizard and at Portreath; more than a surf school, it offers safe, sea-based exhilaration.
After an 18-month creative relationship codesigning and rebranding the current ShelterBox identity, mainly to bring all the international affiliates on brand and on message, Leap delivered the ShelterBox International website during November 2009. Last week the site was selected by web design journal Smashing Magazine as one of the most useable charity websites in the world.
Friday 4th December saw the seventh annual Cornwall Sustainability Awards, presented by Dick Strawbridge. The Leap-designed trophies went down a treat and many of Leap's clients (both current and historic) were represented amongst the winners and finalists.
Matt and Chris are into their tenth week of the Eco design challenge and what a ride it has been! From meeting and working with Dr. Jo from Sci Art Solutions, to setting up and running the Teacher Inspiration Day at Bedruthan Steps Hotel, there has never been a dull moment.
A recent succession of catastrophic large scale disasters have hit areas around the Pacific, leaving thousands without shelter. This series of unprecedented and devastating tsunamis, typhoons & earthquakes hit the region leaving entire communities in need of help.
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Leap Creative Director Matt Hocking has been made Senior Producer for Design of the Time Cornwall's (DOTT Cornwall's) Eco Design Challenge. The 'Challenge is a year-long cross-curriculum project encouraging Year-8 (and to a lesser extent Year-10) secondary school pupils from all over the county to use design and enterprise to produce solutions for reducing their school's ecological and carbon footprints.
£1,700 was the winning bid for the 'concept' of a new climate cow, (the original being too damaged to sell). The auction raised almost £40,000, with almost £18,000 going straight to the support of Hall for Cornwall (HfC) for the coming year.
In March Leap won the best CD/DVD category at the Media Innovation Awards in Bristol. The award was given to our interactive CD-ROM that we designed and developed for the 'Tales from Porth' Cornish Language books.
In April we were told of our success in being nominated for a Cornwall Business Award in the Best Website Category. Entering on behalf of Bedruthan Steps Hotel, the website is a terrific fusion of intuitively tactile high design and practical functionality.
