Highstreet stores may be filling their shelves with mass produced Christmas cards at the moment, but some of our favourite Birmingham based designers have been busy bees making their own festive designs. Claire Hartley‘s hand illustrated cards are priced at £6 for a pack of three different designs. Abigail Borg‘s letterpress cards – ‘Daphne’s Pinecone’ … [Read more…]
Ed Vaizey announced what his department’s doing with the British film industry earlier today. Since announcing the demise of the UK Film Council things have been a bit up in the air. Some of those things are still up there, but we know a bit more now. You can read the full official announcement from DCMS … [Read more…]
Birmingham & Worcestershire based surface pattern designer and illustrator, Abigail Borg, recently won Best British Pattern in ELLE Decoration’s British Design Awards 2010. Big congrats!
A quick message from the folks at We Are Birmingham; Four months after Pete asked Birmingham’s creative communities for help, the We Are Birmingham shop is very nearly ready to open. We start trading on Saturday morning at 10am but before then we want to have a little drinks reception to thank everyone for their help … [Read more…]
Some of you may already be aware of Inhabit and their temporary, traveling tea shops. They held a small shop in Ladywood for ten weeks, but have since moved on to their next venture in Handsworth, which is due to open on 9 November. The new shop will be located at 27 Grove Lane, and … [Read more…]
This isn’t new, not by a long stretch, but I’ve only just found it. You may well be aware that Acme, based in the Jewellery Quarter invented the whistle. Or at least founder Joseph Hudson did, back in 1883. So Acme make whistles. Millions of them a year. For everyone. That’s impressive. Almost as impressive … [Read more…]
I’ve often wondered why museums and galleries aren’t using their web presence in more innovative and useful ways. I worked within a gallery for a number of years, and this gave me the unsurprising insight that many factors contributed to this: underpaid overworked staff, simply no capacity (in terms of time) to explore new avenues, … [Read more…]
I am extremely pleased to announce that the Created in Birmingham t-shirts and tote bags are now on sale! The items sport a fantastic design – a map of Birmingham’s wards created by Kate Parry. All profits made from the items will be donated to Acorns Children’s Hospice, a charity based in Birmingham that proved … [Read more…]