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1979–80 West Ham United F.C. season

Winning the Cup for the third time, West Ham manager John Lyall tactically outsmarted his Arsenal counterpart Terry Neill by paying a 4–5–1 system, stifling Arsenal's creative midfield that included future West Ham signing Liam Brady and the steely Brian Talbot.

Ad Lib, Inc.

In 1992, a conglomerate from Germany, Binnenalster GmbH, purchased the assets of Ad Lib from the Government of Quebec, who had acquired it to prevent Creative Labs from buying it.

Ana Sanchez-Colberg

The piece was the recipient of the Creative Collaborations in Music Award from PRS for its treatment of dance and "live music" in performance.

Appleseed Recordings

In 1997, for Appleseed’s first major project, Musselman approached numerous wellknown musicians and other creative artists (writer Studs Terkel, actor/writer/director/musician Tim Robbins) with a request to each record a song written, adapted or performed by Pete Seeger for a tribute album to highlight Seeger’s musical contributions and his tradition of mixing songs and political activism.

Barly Baruti

Baruti is the co-founder of the Atelier de Création et de l'Initiation à l'Art (Creative Workshop for an Initiation to Art) to encourage talented youth in Kinshasa.

Chris Dalley

In September 2006, Dalley was asked to join Death By Stereo replacing Todd Hennig who left the band to pursue other creative endeavours.

Daniel Kamihira White

In 2013 White was the illusion consultant and creative consultant for Kanye West's The Yeezus Tour.

Danny Fingeroth

From there, Fingeroth served as senior vice president for creative development at Visionary Media, home of Showtime's WhirlGirl, for which he served as story editor.

Darryl Starbird

He is one of a group of designers and artists including Ed Roth, George Barris, Norm Grabowski, Dean Jeffries, Bill Cushenberry and the great pinstripe artist Kenny Howard (nicknamed Von Dutch), who presided over one of the most productive and creative periods of American custom car and hot rod design.

David McCooey

He is Personal Chair in Literary Studies and Professional & Creative Writing at Deakin University in Geelong and regularly writes reviews for Australian Book Review and The Age.

Donald Steven

A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he won a BMI Student Composer Award in 1970, the Canadian Federation of University Women's Golden Jubilee Creative Arts Award in 1972, the 1987 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year (for Pages of Solitary Delights) and the 1991 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music (for In the Land of Pure Delight).

Donwan Harrell

Donwan Harrell is founder and creative director of the New York-based luxury denim line PRPS.

Douglas Durkin

He taught creative writing briefly at Columbia University before turning to a full-time writing career with fellow-novelist Martha Ostenso.

Estrella del Valle

She was born in Córdoba, Veracruz, in 1971 and studied creative writing at the Writer's General Society of Mexico (Sociedad General de Escritores de México, SOGEM).

Flux Television

The show had numerous creative collaborators including Jonathan Wells (creative director), designer Bill McMullen (who created the logo), twenty2product (who designed the show's motion graphics sequences), graphic designer David Weissberg, producers Aden Ikram, Randall Hoy and Lisa Braz.

Franz Anton von Sporck

Many creative operatic works were first performed in the Sporck theater, including the first opera to use the original settings and character names from the tradition of Don Juan dramatizations: the opera La pravità castigata (1730) with words by Antonio Denzio and music mainly by Antonio Caldara.

Gerry Owens

Having worked with such names as Danny Saber (David Bowie, U2, Black Grape), Dave 'Rave' Ogilvie (Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, and Skinny Puppy), Adrian Sherwood (Ministry, Sinéad O'Connor) and Scott Humphries (Rob Zombie), Owens developed his creative and technical abilities extensively.

Highway Star – A Journey in Rock

The first official screening of the film took place on March 2, 2007 at the launch of Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, an initiative by ATRiuM and University of Glamorgan.

Holmen, Copenhagen

The 32 former Gunboat Sheds today house small business mainly in the creative sector, such advertising agencies, media houses and architectural practises.

Incorporated Society of Musicians

The ISM led a campaign to secure the place of music in the English Baccalaureate as part of a sixth pillar of creative and cultural subjects.

Jalal Garyaghdi

Compositional portraits such as Young girl, Kamancha player, Tar player and others occupy a distinct place in Garyaghdi's creative work.

Jan Kryjevski

In 1977, Kryjevski spent time working in a group of young artists at the dacha for creative talents "Senezh" near Moscow, where the artistic concept of Transrealism was first created and developed.

Jean Jacques Surian

Recently it was noticed while exposing in 2004 a series of painting in Aix-en-Provence on the Divine Comedy of Dante (see some examples on fr:Wikipedia) and took part in 2006 in "the Cézanne year" with an exposure to the museum of the tapestries of Aix-en-Provence, where it reinterpreted the work of the Master of Aix, with much of affection, freedom and creative intelligence.

Jeannette Armstrong

In addition to her creative works, Armstrong has published and continues to compose a wealth of critical works such as The Native Creative Process, a collaborative discourse between Armstrong and Douglas Cardinal on Aboriginal artistry, and “Land Speaking,” which addresses how land and Okanagan language influence her writing.

Jennifer Boyden

Projects that feature her text include work with Buster Simpson and her husband, visual artist Ian Boyden, as well as creative nonfiction responding to work by artists such as photographer Peter deLory.

John Howkins

In 2006 Howkins became chairman of the John Howkins Research Centre on the Creative Economy, launched by the Shanghai Municipal Government at the Shanghai School of Creativity, Shanghai Theatre Academy.

John O. Reed

(with Clive Wake) A bibliography of modern creative writing in French from Madagascar, Salisbury, 1963

John R. Montgomery

Montgomery worked at Burnett for 33 years, where he served as Executive Vice President, Executive Creative Director and handled accounts including McDonald’s (domestic and global), Minute Maid (Coca-Cola), Nintendo, Kellogg, Procter & Gamble, Allstate, 7-Up, Keebler, Green Giant, Miller Beers, United Airlines, Kraft Foods, Nestle and Samsonite.

Joseph Friedrich Hummel

Father of musicologist Walter Hummel, he was a musician and promoter of the works of Wagner, Bruckner and Strauss, a representant of the more creative sounding musical culture of his time.

Marcel Knobil

The launches are judged by admired 'Connoisseurs' including: Joan Burstein CBE (Co-founder of Browns); Gurinder Chadha OBE (Director and Producer); Professor Wendy Dagworthy (Royal College of Art’s Head of Fashion); Nadav Kander (Photographer); Sir John Hegarty (Founder. Creative. BBH); and Luke Johnson (Chairman of Royal Society of Arts).

Mark Field

He has run local campaigns on business rates, St Bartholomew's Hospital, assisting the creative industries, the control of rickshaws in the West End, social housing rent rises, the independence of the City of London Police and in July 2011 successfully argued in Parliament for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport's continuing control of the Royal Parks.

Michelle Valentine

Valentine graduated from Manhattan's Marymount College with a degree in Speech, Drama and Communications, and minors in Marketing and Creative Writing.

Midi:Nette

Since then, Midi:Nette has released the records of Mana's follow-up project Moi dix Mois, and in 2002, Mana signed on the electronic duo Schwarz Stein, which disbanded in 2004, due to creative differences.

Mirage Magazine

Mirage's subject matter predominantly focuses on timeless aesthetics in the fields of architectural-, automotive- and product design combined with features about forgotten utopias and influential creative personalities like Robert Evans or Peter Saville.

Montt Mardié

The track was released using the Creative Commons license the song was up freely to be remixed and re-appropriated and many interpretations was made by fans and other artists such as Shorthand Phonetics which included a radically different version on their Creative Commons release "Errors in Calculating Odds, Errors in Calculating Value".

Nubar Alexanian

This work, five years in the making, documents the creative processes of twenty-five musicians including Wynton Marsalis, Philip Glass, Emmylou Harris, and Paul Simon, among others.

Ørestad Gymnasium

Apart from the regular subjects, students are offered a "creative subject" which can be Multimedia (mainly communication, Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash), Media (production of films, commercials and a theoretical introduction to media), or Visual Arts (including use of Adobe Photoshop).

Panu Petteri Höglund

He has published a number of works of fiction in the Irish language, which is his chosen creative medium.

Pirates: Adventures in Art

The Creative Producer and Executive Story Editor for the show is Jed MacKay, and it is produced by Katrina Walsh.

Quality Comics

Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing company that operated from 1937 to 1956 and was an influential creative force in what historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books.

Quim Gutiérrez

Quim was chosen by Givenchy Creative Director Riccardo Tisci to star in the brands Autumn/Winter 2013 Advertising Campaign

Rich Batsford

Batsford is also a co-creator of creative network Project X Presents and Musituality, a platform for musicians of various faiths to perform together.

Sally Carns

When she's not working for Amy Grant, Merle Haggard, and others in the music industry, you may find Carns taking photos of her kids and blogging about her creative ventures at www.mattandsally.com.

Scenic Routes

The album began as a one time recording effort from the frontmen of four creative rock bands; Gene Eugene, from the funk/rock band, Adam Again; Terry Scott Taylor, from the bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies; Mike Roe, from the rock band The 77s; and Derri Daugherty, from the atmospheric rock band The Choir.

Sharon Wauchob

In May 2009 EDUN, the global fashion brand of Ali Hewson and her husband, U2 singer Bono, appointed Sharon Wauchob as the new creative director.

Sylvia Kelso

She has a Creative Writing MA built around one science-fiction novel using alternate North Queenslands and she earned her Ph.D. in 1997.

The Dark Tower: Treachery

The series is written and illustrated by the same creative team as The Gunslinger Born and The Long Road Home, which includes writers Robin Furth and Peter David, and illustrators Jae Lee and Richard Isanove.

The Empty City

Kidsreads.com called it a "new and creative twist" for dystopian fiction, with clever names for human things and great emotion for animals in the writing.


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