Things are warming up at Leicester’s Spark Childrens Arts Festival which takes place from the 31st May through to 12th June 2011.
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Over the past couple of months Cuttlefish have worked with contemporary artist Simon Faithfull to develop a new updated mobile drawing application for the Apple iPhone.
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Today I took time out to view the remarkable work of the artist Huang Yong Ping at Nottingham Contemporary.
Read more →Malcolm McLaren’s impish looks were matched by a wry tongue-in-cheek approach to creative ideas: Risque, amusing and always chipping-away at convention and conformity. An eclectic artist who rejected ‘Rock and Roll. then in a clever rebranding exercise duped the record industry and sold it back to us under another name – ‘punk rock’ – such [...]
Read more →Since my very first days at art school in the late 1970′s, the creative work of Eduardo Paolozzi has always appealed to me. His brutal robot-like constructions, reliefs and strangely futuristic pop collage appear to hail from another planet, or possibly an underworld, as they also feature in the concourses and tunnels of Tottenham Court [...]
Read more →Like many creatives, I am fascinated by letterforms. It was therefore interesting to read the Creative Review piece on Racing Car graphics. About a year-and-a-half ago I visited the Grand Prix Collection at Donington Racetrack which is based in the East Midlands within easy access of Leicester, Derby and Nottingham. The displays had a ramshackle [...]
Read more →Nottingham is in for a treat. ‘Star City’ (The Future Under Communism) which opens today at Nottingham Contemporary is immersive, accessible and fun. For a generation who were children in the sixties the space race that existed between the capitalist west (USA) and the communist east (the Soviet Union) was a very real and ongoing [...]
Read more →While Steve Jobs positions the Apple iPad somewhere between the iPhone and the MacBook, there is no doubt in my mind that the seductive interface of this touch-screen entertainment platform will filter upwards into the professional production environment currently dominated by Apple Computer’s MacBook Pro. Within a couple of years, trackpads and mouse will be [...]
Read more →On the day the UK’s antiquated commercial Teletext service closes down, my eight year old Son is watching Chuckle Brothers on the BBC iPlayer via his Nintendo WII. in a matter of fact way that clearly demonstrates how ubiquitous multiplatform media consumption has become. Teletext was of course a uniquely British phenomenon, developed in the [...]
Read more →I found a feather on my dewy lawn on Sunday 13th September 2009, shortly before embarking on a family trip to Skegness. During WWI and II the white feather symbolised cowardice and was offered to non-combatants as a form of challenge. But the white feather does have other meanings. As a child growing up in [...]
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