Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
As far as the Big City Plan is concerned, so far there’s been plenty to talk about but nothing in writing to pick apart. Birmingham Central have picked out highlights of the City Centre Masterplan (Big City Plan) Report from Acting Strategic Director of Development at Birmingham City Council to the Cabinet meeting on the … [Read more…]
‘Tweedeleededeedee, Sir Ru Barb and the Green Wolf‘ is the next project from The Destroyers and is an ‘urban folk opera written by Paul Murphy with a score by Frank Moon’. Set in no particular time this opera draws freely from past, present and future to create an upbeat cautionary tale for discerning audiences of … [Read more…]
Here are the Creative City Awards finalists, with thanks to Big Cat (who provided the list) and Dave Harte (who provided the links): The Regional Outstanding Business Development Award: Bubblequest Ltd Internet Arrow Digital Native Academy Ltd The Birmingham Outstanding Business Development Award: Electric Cinema Substrakt Limited (blog) Innovation Award: Adwords Expert Ltd LHM Media … [Read more…]
This flared up last week but there’s no sense in letting a good discussion die down. Bennie Gray, the Custard Factory and Big Peg owner, wrote a call-to-arms called ‘A challenge for Birmingham‘ which was featured in the Birmingham Post. The nub of it was that: as we face the threat of economic meltdown, Birmingham … [Read more…]
Artism is an independent organisation aiming to create a book bursting with artists/graphic designers work which will be sold to raise money for the National Autistic Society charity through the use of Art From Birmingham Clusta and Z3/Design Studio are both submitting work, possibly a few more are too. Artism are looking for sponsorship, if … [Read more…]
Nathan Monk, director of the Smile Creative Agency, is working on a new project called Font Lorry. I intend to create an online distribution platform for emerging typographic talent. Whilst at first this may appear to be a font foundry, I believe I can make this into a viable structure for typographic goods of all … [Read more…]
Fireloop Creative, based in the Custard Factory, picked up a bronze Cream Award last week for their work on steakandbjday.co.uk. If you’ve not encountered the concept before, it falls on 14 March – a month after Valentine’s Day. I’ll let you figure the rest out yourself or you can visit the site. Dave from Fireloop … [Read more…]
Fused Magazine have just launched their revamped website, and a lovely thing it is. For those that don’t know Fused, they produce a quarterly publication that covers fashion, music, arts, etc and so on. They also produced a rather good students’ guide to Birmingham, a responsible for the Ltd Edition affordable art market and promote … [Read more…]