DanceXchange have been at the Hippodrome for 10 years and are having a bit of a celebration. If you’re not aware of them, they bring touring contemporary dance companies to the city, put on classes and act as a focal point for other regional dance activity. They’re also a partner on International Dance Festival Birmingham … [Read more…]
The Typographic Hub is: part of the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design at Birmingham City University; the Hub works to promote the history, theory and practice of typographic design They organise an annual typographic symposium (16 March this year) and will be publishing a fair amount of typographically-related articles. The website (built by Supercool) … [Read more…]
There’s a few interesting novelty things floating around courtesy of Birmingham’s finest creative minds, all in the festive spirit of course. Boxer‘s Christmas video ‘Guess who’s coming to dinner‘ is definitely worthy of a mention. As well as being highly entertaining, it also comes with the challenge of a movie quiz. Fullrange have made this … [Read more…]
There’s a lot of illustrators getting all collaborative at the moment, what with the Not My Type project and this here news about the new thing from the Love to Print collective. Katie from Supercool has explained things better than I would: Patterns contains loads of exquisite illustrations from five fantastically talented screenprint artists, who … [Read more…]
This is one of my projects, so please excuse. In 2008 I organised a 48-hour film competition. It went well, especially considering it was put together on zero budget and six weeks notice. Now… Film Dash is back! It’ll happen over the weekend of 5-7 March 2010. Here’s the deal: Write, cast, shoot, and edit … [Read more…]
This week Wendy Cope, one of the favourites to become the new poet laureate said that you can’t write poetry to order. Channel 4 set a challenge to prove her wrong: Write a poem ‘to lift the spirits of the nation’ in the format of a 140 character Twitter tweet. Katie Parry aka @supercoolkp, a … [Read more…]
Thanks to Katie at Supercool Design for spotting this one. The artwork for the Killers’ most recent album was done by Paul Normansell. More info on the Supercool blog. (PS – if you’ve not yet voted for Created in Birmingham today, please go here – http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-uk-blog/)
Yeah, ok, no-one likes ‘networking’. Fine. How about going for a drink with some good people? Yes? Ok, well there’s a few things coming up. On Friday there’s Likemind, hosted by James from Supercool and Lucie from Saint Caffe at the latter’s cafe on St Pauls Square. Drop in any time between 8.30am and 10am … [Read more…]