Queen & Crawford: are a Design and Fabrication Workshop based in Birmingham, UK. Recent projects have included the design and fit out of a canal boat for Ikon Gallery, the Design & Fabrication of a modular wall system for Eastside Projects, the fabrication of a giant kite for Heather & Ivan Morison . And here’s … [Read more…]
Not yer usual call for artists this one. The Hippodrome are getting Smile to make an iPhone app that’ll be used to showcase live art around the city. They’re looking to commission regional artists and designers to devise and produce a piece of live art that will be featured inside the iPhone app. It says here … [Read more…]
The flip-side to Digbeth Food Wastage is brumDished from 383 Project. Voted 19th in the New York Times 45 places to go in 2012, Birmingham has been touted as the UK’s ‘foodiest town’. This site is curated by the good people of Brum, to show the good people of the world exactly what we’re eating.
An interesting opportunity from Midland Heart: The Spectacle Works provides affordable live/work accommodation tailor-made for designer makers and people in the creative industries who are starting up or already running their own business. It is based at Hylton Street in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter and provides a rolling 3 year tenancy for people and their businesses before … [Read more…]
Black Country Atelier is a 3D prototyping workspace. They also take design and architecture commissions and have just moved to the Jewellery Quarter. I like the sound of their 3D printing workshops.
It was good to see this list of favourite sites from BCT’s Leigh Walker. I’d not heard of a single one of them before so I’ll link them up from here too: Photo by D J Norton Old Maps Austin Memories A History of Birmingham places and Placenames The Lapal Canal Project Head over to … [Read more…]
Made in the Jewellery Quarter is the name of a group exhibition featuring Capricorn Coating, Alabaster & Wilson, David-Louis and LJ Millington: The goal of ‘ Made in the Jewellery Quarter’ is to let the people of Birmingham and the wider region know what is made on their doorstep, plus give them the opportunity to buy a piece of … [Read more…]
Black Book Brum is a blog that is: dedicated to Brums hard working and often underestimated Graffiti/Street artists. Whether you interested in old school graf, sticker kings and queens or just the general art scene around Birmingham this is the place for you. Join me as I travel across the City noting the newest work as it happens!