Category Archive: News & Reviews
‘The Content is the Cargo Cargo is a web publishing (CMS) and community-building platform currently in development. It powers a variety of creative communities in the fields of Education, Design, Research, and Conceptual Art. About a year ago when I was looking for a new a new CMS (Content Management System) on which to run [...]
Roy Anderson Artist Roy Anderson shares his creative journey, processes and inspiration, and reveals some of the many works stored in his garage archive. Is an artist his work? If you understand your pictures, do you understand yourself? Well, it’s worth finding out. So I forage among my old paintings to discover what I really [...]
Design archives at the University of Brighton have received national recognition with grants totalling £180,000. The funding, £60,000 in each of the next three years, has been awarded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). This is the first time Brighton’s archives have received HEFCE funding and it positions the university alongside well [...]
Do you value the arts? Support the campaign today! If you are interested in the arts in the UK then you might be interested in signing this petition to the Government to try and prevent radical cuts to current levels of arts funding, which will decimate what has been one of the UK’s chief success [...]
A few months ago, my colleague Karen Jinks flagged up a new site to me called ‘The Blogpaper‘. Theblogpaper is an online community where members can submit articles, notes (which link to websites) and photo stories, that are voted/rated by other members. Those stories that gain the highest amount of reads and votes will be [...]
DeviantART introduces its latest contribution to artists around the world, a web-based HTML5 drawing tool with full-blown layer capabilities, pressure sensitivity, and multiple brushes. This new application is offered free to all members of deviantART. DeviantART Muro takes advantage of HTML5 to provide superior function, speed, and flexibility over any other web-based drawing application, and [...]
The autumn edition of UK Handmade magazine brings with it a flavour of Japan, a fabric “Furoshiki” gift wrapping tutorial, how to make your very own “Amigurumi” crochet Woodland Bunny and screen-printing. Editor, Anna Stassen, describes why autumn is her favourite season: “Autumn in Japan brings with it brilliant shades of reds, oranges and yellows [...]
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