baskerville project http://www.createdinbirmingham.com Fri, 17 Aug 2018 17:05:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CiB-Google-copy-32x32.jpg baskerville project http://www.createdinbirmingham.com 32 32 Typographic Horizons http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2009/11/10/typographic-horizons/ Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:05:30 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=4191 [Read more...]]]> One for the font-worriers this (and I know there are a few who read this blog). UKType are organising Typographic Horizons at BIAD on 18 November 2009.

The programme includes a fair amount of local talent (I’m no expert in this area but I recognise the names of David Osbaldestin, Smile, Ben Waddington and the Baskerville Project) with some international flavour added by Henrik Birkvig from the Danish School of Media & Journalism and John D Berry from Microsoft Typography in Seattle.

It’s £25 for most folks, £15 concessions. Here’s the full programme and you can register here.

Speaking of Smile, they went to visit Airside recently and written it all up on their blog. Well worth a read. This quote from Jamie Wieck stood out:

“We’re now a design company competing with advertising companies that have design and digital design subsidiaries. They know how to talk… some call it strategy, others might call it hot air, but either way we have to learn a bit of that now in order to compete.”

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  • First Light Movies: Win Hammer film posters here!
    First Light’s blog has got off to a good start and now they’ve got a competition going. Have a look at one of the films they’ve funded and, by commenting on it, you can win yourself a poster
  • stereographic » Plus+ 2008 – call for help…
    Can anyone help Stereographic out? They need:
    (1) a mannequin – full sized / male or female. (If by any chance anyone has a reflective mannequin that would be a mega bonus!)
    (2) any ‘discarded design’ fellow designers / artists / companies have that they want to get rid of – things like demo prints / failed pitch designs / overruns on brochures etc
  • WOW: Hello, my name is Sarah :)
    Sarah Carter is “a design student that loves branding and typography”. She’s been working on Baskerville: The Animated Movie and did some live drawing at Re-Sketch at The Rainbow. This is her blog
  • Miss Halliwell make their back catalogue available for free download!
    Little Chris spots that Miss Halliwell (not Geri) have put their two EPs up online for free
  • Modulate says “Hello” with digital technology
    “some of our members have been working away in the background on one of the interactive installations, “Field of Light ”, a project dreamed up by the PLUS team, who also devised ’Illuminate‘”
  • Plus+: Booking Tickets NOW OPEN
    £40 (25 conc) for four days, £15 (10 conc) for one. Get em while they’re hot.
  • Anthony J Hughes on arts funding
    Interesting piece – “Funding as a concept and the funding and economic redevelopment projects aimed at supporting ‘creative industries’ has actually become a system supporting government ‘intervention’ and policy”
  • stitches and hos October
    The 8th meeting of the “monthly knitting hootenanny” at the Hare & Hounds is on Tues 28 October
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  • Debut magazine
    Due to launch in 2009, debut magazine proposes to “provide a platform from which creative people, whether artists, musicians, designers or performers to showcase their talents to a wider audience”. They’re after some of those ‘creative individuals’ to be part of the first edition
  • Robert Lane
    Robert is a musician and on his blog he documents the trials and tribulations of working the West Mids gig circuit. It’s well worth a read. He’s also a member of a comedy troupe called the new Raving Loonies Stole My Heart. Their new show, The Terrifying Tour of Terrible Terror calls at the Arena in Wolverhampton on the 30th of October. Swearing and scariness is promised
  • Local short film wins ‘Best Children’s Film’ at a Sikh Film Festival in New York
    “Sikh, Rattle and Roll”, the short film written and produced by Yugesh Walia at Endboard Productions, and co-financed by Screen WM and Carlton Television won the ‘Best Children’s Film’ Award and a $2500 prize
  • 40th BICS pics
    D’Log has spotted someone’s pics from the 2008 Birmingham International Comic Show
  • What can we expect from the Baskerville project?
    Nick Booth on the Birmingham Conservation Trust blog has been investigating…
  • Flatpack Festival // 11-15 March 2009 –
    The newly designed Flatpack Festival site has launched. There’s a call for submissions on there but because it’s one of those slightly infuriating websites that don’t have distinct pages to link to I can’t point that out to you. It’s easy enough to spot though Amateur that I am, I didn’t spot the permanent links – here’s the submissions one (ta Ian!)
  • PHOTOBIRMINGHAM
    “A blog dedicated to creating a photospace in Birmingham and a place to celebrate photography”. Good to see this up and running. I for one will be watching developments with interest
  • Download Copter’s album for free
    Local band Copter have made their 3rd LP free to download. It’s “12 cuts of all new, dynamite soul”. Pass the link on to anyone you reckon might like a copy
    • ]]>     http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/10/14/links-for-october-14th/feed/ 6     Smile on Baskerville http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/09/22/smile-on-baskerville/ Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:52:10 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=2090 [Read more...]]]> This is a lovely example of how to use that free online stuff (call it blogging, Twittering, social media if you like) to drum up interest in your work.

    Twitter is a micro-blogging service.  Smile is a creative consultancy.  Smile don’t have a blog as such but they have a Twitter account and a Smile website.  They’re working on the Baskerville Project (as is Alex Hughes, whose well-timed post has just dropped into my RSS reader) and they’ve put some beautiful photos on their site and Twitterered to tell interested folk like me that they’re there.

    I don’t quite know what they’re doing but I’m really interested in seeing the finished product now.

    More photos on the Smile website.

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