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Acknowledgements

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons licence). See Terms and Conditions.

This course was authored by Nicole Schadewitz, Emma Dewberry and Steve Garner.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course:

Peter Lloyd

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Course image: Steve Jurvetson [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence.

Figures 1 and 3: © Peter Lloyd

Figure 2: © Steven May / Alamy; WWD / Conde Nast / Corbis; Tom Mackie / Alamy

Figures 7, 11, 12, 14b, 18 and 22: © Nicole Schadewitz

Figures 8 and 26: © Wiki media Creative Commons licence

Figure 13: © Emma Dewberry

Figure 16: © Wikipedia Creative Commons licence

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Figure 19: Paul Rand for IBM

Figure 20: © The M.C. Escher Company - Holland

Figure 24: VodafoneTM advertisement

Figure 25: © macle, via http://www.flickr.com/ photos/ 7276607@N07/ 3322484174, used under Creative Commons licence

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