dated/1997

David Jennings Associates	Site Gallery	Forced Entertainment	Designers Republic	David Palmer
Flow Simulation	ACT	Lifesize pictures	dated. video. programme	dated. text. programme

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Sharon McKoy
National Centre for 
Popular Music

Plans for a National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter had been mooted since the mid 1980s, but it was only at the end of 1996 that Music Heritage - the educational charity charged with developing the Centre - had the final element of its funding approved.

NCPM had a Web site from June 1995, including searchable links to a wide range of on-line musical resources. By 1997, this was already looking very dated and was replaced by a second generation site which drew on the promotional CD-ROM designed for the Centre in the early months of the year by Eg.G.

The National Centre was always intended to be a highly interactive visitor attraction.In this video clip, Marketing Manager Sharon McKoy describes first how on-line information will be made available to potential visitors. Then when they arrive at the Centre, there will be access to a vast digital pool of multimedia information, to educate and excite.

The video also features prominently a virtual tour of the model for the visually spectacular building for the NCPM, designed by architects Branson Coates. Building work was about to begin.