Vogue Italia, published by Conde Nast, said it’s September issue that goes on sale today has adopted 3D technology for its cover and some fashion shoots.
Vogue Italia is the “first fashion magazine” in 3D, showing “there is still plenty of room to make print publications more and more interesting,” Editor-in-Chief Franca Sozzani said in an e-mailed statement today. Bloomberg.net
The cover, featuring model Miranda Kerr, and the 22-page fashion spread using the new technology will be visible through 3D-vision glasses attached to the publication. Seen at TCH FB page.
Bright Space recruiting youth bloggers for new arts and social media project
Bright Space is launching a new and exciting social media project entitled Platform(www.projectplatform.org.uk) for 16-19 years olds living in Birmingham. Platform will be a blog featuring articles, reviews, events listings and much more, written by young people for young people and will represent a unique perspective on arts activity in Birmingham. Bright Space is now looking to recruit 15 young people who are interested in reporting, reviewing and attending the many cultural events in and around the city. This includes theatre, dance, exhibitions, launches and gigs. Deadline for applications is Monday 19th July 2010.
Successful applicants will receive a £200 bursary and the opportunity to attend a week long intensive summer school, which will highlight the many techniques and skills they will need to become fully fledged Platformbloggers. During the week they will take part in workshops led by industry experts including; journalists, photographers, bloggers and film-makers. Subjects covered will include:
Journalism, writing, reviewing and interview techniques
Podcasting with audio and video
Photo blogging and social media tools
Events management, promotion and marketing
The Platform bloggers will then organise a live launch of the website to their peers, parents, friends and mentors. The group will meet regularly throughout the project with continued access to and mentoring from industry professionals who will support them in creating content, researching articles and building their on-line readership.
The core group will improve skills in; ICT, literacy, independent learning and critical thinking. The project will also support those wishing to pursue a career within the creative and cultural industries.
The aspiration for Platform is to amplify young people as unique, dynamic, cultural commentators that successfully communicate, inspire and engage other young people, while at the same time propose significant debate about their cultural offer. It is also hoped that Platform will become a vehicle that cultural organisations, venues and promoters connect with to ensure their programming reflects the breadth and individuality of young people in Birmingham.
How to apply:
Applicants need to write a 200 word article on a creative passion that they have
Include their name, address, date of birth and contact details
Send the completed article with all the necessary contact details to: Bright Space, Studio 222 The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham, B9 4AA
Bright Space (www.brightspace.org.uk) is committed to developing and encouraging activity that helps young people find creative progression routes in and beyond the arts. Bright Space works actively to encourage sustainable cross-sector partnerships that broaden the horizons and opportunities available to young people.
Underneath Eastside’s arches you’ll find a whole host of organisations making and presenting film, music, visual arts, digital media, craft, literature, and photography – and some great pubs and cafes too. We Are Eastside is a guide to some of these hidden treasures.
A couple of exciting developments in the We are Eastside camp in Digbeth, Birmingham is the addition of a new photographic gallery space called Rhubarb East Gallery situated in the Rhubarb Building and a performance by Japanese artist Atsuhiro Ito.
Vivid and Capsule are combining forces to present Atsuhiro Ito. Atsuhiro uses a fluorescent light with pick up mics attached, and alters the voltage applied to tubes causing the lights to flicker. Microphones pick up electromagnetic noise perfectly synchronised with the flickering lights in a light/noise/electric eye festival at only a fiver it is well worth a look next week on Wednesday 10th March 2010, more information can be found here.
Kate Beatty is a photographer based in Birmingham, in this post she speaks to Best Believe about her work, influences and current projects.
Winner of the Move Me Award 2008 and Fuji Fashion Award 2001, Kate’s influences range from traditional reportage like Henri Cartier Bresson and Dorothea Lange to the more challenging and diverse work of Zed Nelson and Nadav Kander. Kate seems genuinely charmed by the people she meets and captures them in a truly sincere and compelling way. Her many commissions have enabled her to meet people from all walks of life whilst giving her the opportunity to travel to America, Cuba and the Balkans.
I draw inspiration from real life the people around me, city living and country air at the same time. I am a big people person, love meeting people, talking to them and photographing them too!!! Another big inspiration is music – helps feed into my creativity!
Kate understands what it is to work in a culturally & geographically varied region like the West Midlands and has a portfolio of work and clients that reflects this diversity, ranging from the NHS – a campaign photographing staff and patients, to a project with the BBC and young people in Telford to an exhibition inside a cattle market capturing local market goers.
I have just finished working on the Chamberlain Awards – a Birmingham City Council initiative. It’s an amazing job as I am spending 1/2 a day with people from all walks of the council ranging from dinner ladies and park rangers to top lawyers who are changing anti-social behavior laws in parliament.
Educational work ranges from BBC and The secret City Project and more recently Creative Partnerships where I have been working along side a visual artist and animator to explore the theme of science in primary schools. It’s incredibly inspiring working with primary school age as they are SUPER imaginative and creative.
Her personal work is a mixture of reportage and fine art, more recently taking a very feminine approach – exploring the theme of love, the highs and lows.
For many artists working in Birmingham, the pull of the ‘big smoke’ can be irresistible. I asked Kate whether she feels that you can be a ‘big fish in a small pond’ here in Birmingham and how she views the amount of opportunities in comparison to other cities.
Yes I do think you can be big fish in small pond in Brum but I also think you are not restricted by being in a place. You can grow, create, and innovate wherever you are.
Kate is based at Fazeley Studios in Digbeth, more of her work is viewable on her website here.
Typography and lettering is an expressive part of Birmingham’s visual identity.Islamic calligraphy, neon signs, tags, mysterious handwritten signs in Mandarin stuck to dirty windows and the fallen glory of broken shop lettering – which now reads ‘Ma l ather s ores’. The aim of ‘Graphic DNA’ is to document these letterforms and to trace the changes to the city’s graphic DNA brought about by regeneration, recording the evolving lettering landscape before the opportunity is lost for ever.
Graphic DNA is a long term project which aims to delineate and profile the graphic character of Birmingham through photographing, gathering, curating, cataloguing and describing the letterforms found in the city’s urban and civic environment. The Project is led by Type with the able assistance of Alexander Barton, Hilary Lovell, Matt Murtagh, Veronika Pechova, Hannah Wood all students at the Birmingham Institue of Art & Desgn.
Why Birmingham?
Birmingham is in a state of metamorphosis, evolving from a city dominated by manufacturing to one led by the creative sector. Industrial Birmingham is being redeveloped and regenerated and a new city is emerging: letterforms that have been obscured for decades are being temporarily exposed before the developers move in, and new letterforms are being added daily. Further more, Birmingham is a hybrid city that for centuries has been home to immigrants from across the country and around the world. The history and evolution of Birmingham’s immigrant populations are relvealed in the letterforms on its streets and the marks left by the city’s multicultural society will be documented and curated by the project. The project is in part graphic rescue.
Why lettering?
Street lettering is an artistic amalgam of letterforms mixed with substrate, language, placement, and proportion. Letterforms are excellent vehicles for demonstrating how the environment, human judgement, necessity, and repetition can add visual music to the streets. This project will capture, catalogue and curate images of letterforms culled from Birmingham’s streets - both past and present – to show the city’s unique graphic character.
To read more about this project check here. If lettering and design is your bag then you may fancy a look at Helvetica a documentary film by Gary Hustwit.
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.
These wee cards are perfect for the networking-shy creative person. They are small but perfectly formed and each as individual and original as their owner. By uploading your own photos and images you can design them to fit in snugly with your own aesthetic or use them to promote pictures of your work/designs.
The cooler more attractive younger brother to the business card, Moo cards are cheap – like only 10 bills for 100 and are used by all types of creative folks. Get involved!
