With barely a pause for breath, we’re already preparing for our other upcoming events. There are still some tickets available for Ampersand in June and we’ve just announced the line-up for this year’s dConstruct in September. Just look at that stellar constellation of names, including the one and only James Burke!

Tickets will be £130 plus VAT and they go on sale on May 29th. And don’t forget: we’ll also be hosting four superb workshops in the run-up to the conference.

And there’s more dConstruct news. This year’s holding page is now live - and rather lovely it is too (design courtesy of our super intern, Alex Jones). The 2012 event will take place on Friday, September 7th, at Brighton Dome - be sure to mark the date in your diary. With last year’s tickets selling out in a gobsmacking 6 hours, you’ll want to make a note of when tickets go on sale, too… follow @dConstruct on Twitter, so you don’t miss any announcements!

On the subject of fast-selling tickets, have you snagged your place at UX London? There are less than 40 discounted Standard rate tickets left, so be sure to get yours while you can!

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We look forward to welcoming them to London in April. And if you haven’t already bought a ticket, snap yours up now. The Early Bird places are sold out, but bag a discounted Standard ticket while you can!

Also, UX London tickets are still selling fast - there are only a handful of Early Bird places left, so be sure to nab yours quickly!

Unfortunately we weren’t able to attend the awards ceremony (though some of our former colleagues kindly accepted on our behalf), as we were all squirreled away in the Herefordshire countryside on what we’ve taken to referring to as Hack Farm. Here we spent a week developing a spontaneous, one-off project. We had a brilliant time, and came away with a new site which we’re pretty proud of: Map Tales, where you can easily create and share map-based stories. Take a look - and add your own tale, why don’t you?

The Week magazine is a brilliantly entertaining, condensed serving of the week’s news and events - basically all that’s fit to print in one handy package! It was started back in the mid ‘90s as a antidote to the deluge of information that readers got from the unwieldy, dense broadsheets. Since then, of course many folk have switched to getting their news online, sending many print publications into a downward spiral… but The Week has managed to buck this trend, actually growing in popularity each consecutive year since its launch.

As our super UX Designer, Harry says: “Dennis Publishing knew they had a winning formula for The Week magazine and they wanted to be certain that none of the magic was lost in translation when they created the iPad edition. This is where Clearleft came in – kicking off a project with numerous research and design iterations; and testing lots of high fidelity prototypes before settling on the best-performing design. We’re amazingly proud and excited about this product, and we can’t wait to see how it fares in the App Store.”