Last week or so, the Digbeth Is Good blog announced that it’s had somewhat a bit of a facelift, with branding designed by Birmingham based creative Ryan Killeen. Take a look through his portfolio to see other lovely stuff he’s been up to – such as his commission for Pointe Blank #2, alongside 26 other Birmingham based … [Read more…]
Ort Cafe will be playing hosting to the Little Zine Party on Saturday August 4th, starting at 12pm and then continuing throughout the day. For the £2 entry fee, there promises to be ‘zines for sale, Zine readings & workshops’, including a nifty bit of screen printing if your bring your own canvases – t-shirts … [Read more…]
I caught this exchange on Twitter earlier: If you want to see what YFrog found a little too realistic then you should get down to the Birmingham Made Me expo in the Mailbox before the end of this week.
Birmingham Zine Festival 2012 is happening 12-15 October. Last year it was at the Supersonic Festival (btw – did you see they’ve got Kim Gordon performing this year) and in the We Are Birmingham shop. Not sure of the location this year but the BZF Facebook page mentions Southside (that’s the gay village/Chinese quarter/theatre district … [Read more…]
Digbeth is Good have pointed out that the graffiti supplies shop in the Custard Factory, The Bench 504, have put their sofa up on eBay. Here’s the listing.
IDEA Birmingham – the business think tank led by Birmingham City University – has brought together a group of influential business leaders to promote great brands and products using the campaign theme – Birmingham Made Me, the Original Design City. Posters like the one above will adorn 200 billboards across the city advertising a Design … [Read more…]
I’ve had an update from Lee Basford who works over at Fluid and thought I might as well just copy/paste it in here: We’ve just finished an animated trailer for the new Sega game Hell Yeah! A completely Birmingham based project between ourselves writing, directing and art directing (and partly illustrating), Stevie Copter from Newtasty helping with … [Read more…]
The other day Supercool’s Katie Parry tweeted about meeting Graham Short. I followed a couple of links, as you do, and was blown away. If you’ve not encountered Graham before (and in the years I’ve been doing CiB I’m surprised this is the first time I’d heard of him) then check out his website and … [Read more…]