17th Feb 2012 ⁄ West Midlands ⁄ Turning Point West Midlands (TPWM), the network that works to strengthen the visual arts in the West Midlands, has been awarded funds from Arts Council England to deliver TPWM Projects over the next two years...
17th Feb 2012 ⁄ North West ⁄ Shlomo, a World Record holding beat-boxer and Southbank Centre Artist in Residence, is set to perform at the Black-E, Liverpool on Saturday 17 March. Shlomo has worked for years to push the boundaries of beat-boxing as an art form and used his incredible...
17th Feb 2012 ⁄ South East ⁄ Students from Middlesex University have teamed up with innovative design and installation consultancy Jason Bruges studio, to help create five stunning new idents (promotional branding trailers) for channel4’s rebrand of its digital channel More4...
17th Feb 2012 ⁄ North East ⁄ A web based tool designed to provide businesses trading online with up-the-minute market intelligence has been created by an ambitious graduate and has already picked up business from an Aston Martin restoration company...
16th Feb 2012 ⁄ TV is defunct. It loses meaning daily. It needs to evolve, to engage the audience using new tech and social media. That’s the argument you’ll hear at more or less every debate, forum or seminar you go to. I don’t particularly believe it – I agree that the audience, or at least, a certain generation...
16th Feb 2012 ⁄ Expression is widely used through art and music. People seek the streets to convey the urban experiences of everyday life. Graffiti has considerably moved on from the basic letter ‘graffs’ into a more powerful and evocative form of expression...
16th Feb 2012 ⁄ In today's society ghost writing has become something of a common occurrence with some of the best selling fiction and non-fiction books of recent times all having been written by someone other than that stated on the cover. We could use any celebrity...
16th Feb 2012 ⁄ There is an important debate that’s very current in the design world about buying genuine authorised versions of a particular design vs. buying a reproduction (or fake). This debate has always been there simmering away, but the lid was blown off recently whenever...
16th Feb 2012 ⁄ South East ⁄ Nine budding designers of the future have been given the opportunity to exhibit alongside internationally acclaimed expert Jiri Pelcl at his first UK solo exhibition this month. The students on the Design and Craft BA(Hons) course at the University of Brighton...
16th Feb 2012 ⁄ Time is always money in the world of creative freelancing. Every bit of your working day should be spent on paid jobs for clients if you want to become profitable and enjoy a healthy bank balance. But with so many potential distractions, issues or things that could go wrong...
16th Feb 2012 ⁄ The Crafts Council, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Wales and Craft Northern Ireland have launched one of the most comprehensive surveys into contemporary craft of the last 10 years. Craft in an Age of Change examines the place of contemporary craft at the beginning...
16th Feb 2012 ⁄ West Midlands ⁄ An international film festival celebrating East Asian cinema will see Coventry University’s Ellen Terry Building revert to a picture palace for the first time since the Coventry Odeon closed its doors over 12 years ago...
22nd Feb 2012 ⁄ West Midlands ⁄ A Birmingham design agency’s newest recruit has big plans for the company. Barques Design, based in the Jewellery Quarter, has appointed Kathryn Small as business development manager...
