Nidhi Gupta left BIAD last year with an MA in Surface Design. Her ‘Undiscovered Waste’ collection is on show in the window of the Created in Birmingham shop until 3 May: Undiscovered waste is a unique idea based on reusing waste. An Innovative collection where waste meets Indian traditional craft, fused together in such a … [Read more…]
Not My Type: An Out of Character Experiment is a typographical exploration of 26 letters (and a few sneaky characters) by 35 different Birmingham based illustrators, designers and artists, all displayed as one alphabet There’s an interview with one of the curators, Charlotte Audrey Owen-Meehan, on This Is Happening. More info on CMYKern and a … [Read more…]
Sola is a photographer with a specialty in ‘lightbombing’, or ‘light graffiti’, ‘light art’ or whatever else you might call it. I’m led to believe it involves long exposures and waving torches around in the dark. I’m sure that description doesn’t do it justice, but however he does it, the results are stunning. For anyone … [Read more…]
The eagle-eyed shoppers among you may have noticed ballet shoes and tutus, like the one pictured above found in the Created in Birmingham shop, popping up all over Bullring recently. Add this to questions like “What is Urban Ballet?” on the shopping centre’s Life Feels Better twitter stream, and this Urban Ballet website, and it … [Read more…]
I’ve not talked about the shop very much which seems a bit remiss of me. As well as lots of things to spend your money on we’ve been using the space for other things. We had Flatpack in last week – they gave out brochures and also installed David Hurley‘s installation ‘A Thought. An Afterthought‘. … [Read more…]
The Created in Birmingham shop in the Bullring has been open for a little over two weeks now and we’re starting to get a better sense of what sort of a monster we’ve created. Right now we need more stock to replace the stuff we’ve sold. Detailed guidance is here. If you came to the … [Read more…]
A few weeks ago I wrote a post called Next steps for CiB in which I mentioned a few of the plans I had for this website. Buried in the final paragraph was the line: A shop’s looking likely too Now, I meant an online shop. However, pretty soon Created in Birmingham is going to … [Read more…]