Back in 2004 Omnium’s founder, Rick Bennett, was asked to run in 2005 by Icograda (International Council of Graphic Design Associations) through their Icograda Education Network (IEN). It was an online international Omnium project for graphic design students worldwide called Creative Waves. Creative Waves ran for 7 weeks in May/June 2005 which involved many interesting visits and contributions from some high profile names in world graphic design. In fact, this year Omnium will be releasing a book about the project which we are compiling as we speak (or type). The entire project can still be viewed at the archived 2005 Creative Waves website.

Rick and the Omnium team have been planning a follow up for sometime and we can announce that the Creative Waves 2 project will run between April and June 2007. In line with the work we have been trying to construct through the Omnium Creative Network, next years Creative Waves project - titled: Visualising Issues of Pharmacy [VIP] - will consist of about 50 Pharmacy students and 50 Graphic Design working together to produce visual public awareness campaigns of health-realted concerns for local rural communities in Kenya, Africa. We shall be working with one or two local hospitals in very remote parts of Kenya and are in the process of setting up and writing to project at present.

The VIP website will be up and running in mid-January, but for the moment you can download a PDF here.

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