Brummie of the Year 2008 – Nominations open BiNS are asking for your suggestions. The early frontrunner seems to be the (semi-anonymous) TWMDriver D’log – Flogging Brum “An overseas student recounts his first-time experience of visiting Birmingham”. There’s a 2nd post too. BMAG fares well, Think Tank less so. How to promote your night/gig/event online … [Read more…]
Another big weekend with something for everybody (unless you happen to hate animation, music and design in equal measure, in which case you can just do one) with: Plus+ International Design Expo Flip Animation Festival Gigbeth Plus+ kicked off today at Fazeley Studios, Digbeth. I’m heading over in a bit and am not really sure … [Read more…]
Plus+ International Design Expo – schedule Listings of all the events are up online. Read what’s going on, become intruiged, buy a ticket. Or don’t – maybe design’s not your thing The Big Picture film “the story of a record breaking project…” Lots Of Things To See And Do In The West Midlands: November 2008 … [Read more…]
Musicians Wanted Any musicians out there want to help with a 3-day project at the Shard End youth centre? It’s with Headliners who do journalism projects for young uns and they’re offering some free publicity Buy Art from the Underground – Fused Magazine Nice to have Fused back and blogging. They’ve spotted that Simon & … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
Cut-Out Not quite sure what the deal is with this one. They’ve got a DIY print studio and are looking for people to submit designs for them to use on T-shirts and so on. A physical shop is apparently coming in summer 09, in the meantime they’re up online with a website (coming soon) and … [Read more…]
The theme of this year’s Plus International Design Festival is ‘Hybrid’. It takes place on 5 to 8 November 2008 and, as the folks at Fused have picked up on, a call has been put out for submissions: The Festival is now seeking exhibitors, speakers and demonstrators to work to the theme of Hybrid, which … [Read more…]