• Wish you were here!

    This week The Surface Gallery on Southwell Road launched its first exhibition of 2012 with its annual  nostalgic look at the good old fashioned postcard. A total of 265 postcards produced by 122 established practitioners, students, new comers and international artists  are exhibiting their original artwork...

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  • NTU student wins top prize with squirrel antics animation!

    Congratulations go to Ben Hennessey, a 3rd year graphic design student at Nottingham Trent University who won 1st prize in the “stop-motion” category in a national competition for Channel 4 and Red Bull. He will be joining Aardman, of Wallace and Gromit fame, for a...

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  • Desperately Seeking Paradise 2010

    Everthing is Happening At Once

    Everything is Happening At Once – Rashid Rana Every generation has thought it lives in the golden age of image making, however what is unique about this moment in time is the sheer number of images surrounding us in our daily lives.  Some researchers have found...

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  • New Adventures in 2012

    It’s January again, which, for Nottingham, means one thing – New Adventures in Web Design. NAIWD (as I like to call it) is a two day conference starting tomorrow, Wednesday 18th Jan, focused on the art of web design. It’s a big deal – developers and...

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  • A crowdsourced links round up

    A quiet week in the email inbox (sign of the times?) so this post is full of suggestions from our lovely Twitter followers. And, by the looks of it, you’re all starting this New Year with a bunch of networking events and briefings. Get your...

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  • Lowry Head of a Man, 1938. Copyright Lowry Collection Salford.

    Are you one of the 12,000?

    It’s ok, it’s not a cult. 12,000 refers to the number of people who visited Djanogly Gallery’s Lowry exhibition last year. Some of us, of course, have skewed this figure by going more than once. But if you’ve not made it yet then make it...

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  • Milan Cathedral, by brookcatherine53, www.flickr.com/photos/53995058@N04/4997801074/

    Links Round-Up: Opportunities to Stand Out or Go to Milan

    Just two opportunities this week, to ease you into 2012: The Invest in Nottingham Club is repeating their Creative Class promotion of local creative businesses who really want to grow.  A small number of creative businesses will be selected for the Creative Class 2012.  As...

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  • On The Flats – A History of Hyson Green

    Firstly, let us get any formalities out of the way – Merry Christmas to all our readers! I hope the post-Christmas-Day preparation frenzy hasn’t left you all in a pit of festive despair. If it has, a few warming cocktails at The Good Elf bar...

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  • The role of design in self-published books

    Recently, I designed a book called Keeping Your Spirits Up for local author Sarah Dale. Sarah is an occupational psychologist and coach based in the Nottingham area, and we had been introduced by a mutual friend. I often work with authors who want to self-publish their writing in some form –...

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  • You say you want a resolution …..

    Apologies to the Beatles I know they had revolution in mind! I can’t promise that but with the mad dash towards Christmas almost over,  let’s look ahead to the New Year! Why not make a few creative resolutions you can easily keep? Here’s a links line...

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