LiquidPress History:
The development of the LiquidPress is primarily based on experience gained from the design and production of 'MEDIASPACE', an integrated publishing/broadcasting experiment. The intent of 'MEDIASPACE', whether in its 'dead' paper-based form, or the 'live' digital forms of satellite and internet, was to explore the implications of new media forms and emergent fields of digital practice in art and design.

'MEDIASPACE1 was an experimental publishing project that explored the integration of print (published as part of the CADE (Computers in Art and Design Education) journal Digital Creativity by SWETS & ZEITLINGER.), WWW (CAiiA-STAR.net (now www.i-dat.org) and interactive satellite transmissions (funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), the British National Space Centre (BNSC), and WIRE (Why ISDN Resources in Education) and use Olympus, EUTELSAT and INTELSAT satellites via a TDS-4b satellite uplink). The convergence of these technologies generated a distributed digital 'space' (satellite footprint, studio space, screen space, WWW space, location/reception space, and the printed page).

Industrial Collaborations:
The LiquidPress has developed some of these research activities in collaboration with the ‘new media’ industries These have been funded projects through the EPSRC (CASE) and DTI Knowledge Transfer Partnerships [KTP] projects, and include:

A: BroadBand4Devon LiquidPress project. Funding from the European Union's Objective 2 programme, the South West Regional Development Agency and Partners, means Broadband4Devon can provide Information and Communications Technology (ICT) advice and guidance to businesses in rural Devon , together with subsidies to encourage connection and development.

B: EPSRC CASE studentships in collaboration with AA Multimedia Publishing Department, 1999

C: Insight Training Solutions Ltd (completed in July 1999) where transformed company delivery of management training from paper based products to CDROM and other new media products through the establishment of an in house new media publishing facility.

D: Orange Group Ltd (renamed from Orange Development in November 1999) which specified, designed and implemented a capability for the development of Intranet-based (‘e-learning’) training products and services to educational and commercial clients.

E: CMA Holdings Ltd (CMA) for the transition from a pure graphic design, advertising and media space buying business into an organisation with strong ICT development capabilities. This led to the development of a sophisticated “e-commerce” system and Content Management System, for intra/extra-net solutions, which is now a significant part of the companies business..

F: CMA is currently working with the Liquid Press to extend the existing CMS to develop the user interface and create a new Data Translation Engine which provides a range of interactive multimedia transmedia publishing and broadcasting facilities.