Last month online boutique Library launched, selling prints from established designers and illustrators. It’s Birmingham based, and most of the artists involved are from the Birmingham area. With a range of posters on offer from designers such as Family, Mou&Ye, Known As Unknown and Others Studio, Library has carefully chosen each artist to offer a … [Read more…]
Visit Birmingham have launched a new culture campaign to attract more cultural tourists to the region. Their new perspective defying artwork features cultural characters from the city and is all about supporting and profiling local talent. Their website breaks down the image into different arts areas, and you can find further information on the wide range of … [Read more…]
Proxy is an exhibition heading to Trove in Birmingham this December. The exhibition is a showcase by Bristol based MadeScapes^, who are made up of Jack Addis, Alex Cotterell, Tom Johnson, Will Kendrick, Trevor Smith and Lewk Wilmshirst, of brightly illuminated collaborative installations. They combine traditional materials with the inspiration they take from growing up … [Read more…]
Lucie Whitehead’s debut exhibition, ‘Dead to Be Iconic’, will open on Friday 23rd November and run until Thursday 29th November at the Lakeside Gallery in the Custard Factory. The exhibition features 50 portraits of celebrities who have died before their time including James Dean, Amy Winehouse and Heath Ledger (which is one of my favourites). … [Read more…]
I don’t think I am the only one suffering from post Eye Candy Festival blues this week. If you didn’t get a chance to get down to Southside and visit Eye Candy Festival check out the following videos from Craig to find out all that went on; Eye Candy Festival – Day 1 from … [Read more…]
If you’re in Birmingham this weekend (11th-13th October 2012) you’re spoilt for choice of creative, cultural, and likely to be very enjoyable happenings across the city. Essentially CiB isn’t a listings website, but we thought it would be sensible to do a quick round up. We’ve already featured bits and bobs from Eye Candy Design … [Read more…]
A week after I have packed my life away into boxes, only to reopen them a day later and slowly scatter them across my new home, I am on my way to The Public in West Bromwich to do some research for my first article in this series I am calling ‘Welcome to Birmingham’. This … [Read more…]
Fused magazine, as part of Eyecandy Festival, are helping out the Oxjam charity this year by calling for submissions for a 12×12 visual interpretation of your favourite record sleeve. They will be giving artists a blank 12″ record sleeve for them to ‘re-imagine’ a new cover for their favourite album by a Midlands artist/ or maybe write/design their favourite song lyrics … [Read more…]