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Posted by Andy in Events, tags: crafts
 Handm@de came from the desire for individual designers, makers and artists to be seen by the wider buying public in an environment that best serves their work.
When people go food shopping they often look at where the vegetables were grown, where the chicken was raised, and now people are realising that they can do this with gifts, clothes, homewares etc by buying Handm@de.
Everything at Handm@de is exactly that, and by supporting Handm@de you are supporting local artists and crafters.
Handm@de came from a desire to be able to show off and sell the stall holders work to their customers in the flesh, as all have online shops, mostly via Etsy.com and Folksy.com.
Handm@de Winchester will be the third event in a historic city, after the success of Handm@de Oxford two more events were organised: Cambridge in April, and now it is the turn of Winchester.
The events all stick to the basics – they’re all in spectacular buildings in central locations – they’re all in cities that attract plenty of tourists as well as locals and students and, of course, they’re all being arranged out of the goodness of the organisers hearts since they won’t make a penny of profit!
So please support Handm@de Winchester!
On Sunday 5th July in Winchester Guildhall, opening hours 10.30 am to 4.30 pm
45 craft stalls featuring Stationery, Photography, Jewellery, Prints, Homewares, Paper Craft, Felted Crafts, Clothing, Greetings Cards, Knits, Original art, Bags and Purses, Ceramics, Softies, Crochet, Soaps and Bath Bombs.
The charity table is supporting the Naomi House Children’s Hospice charity.
Look forward to seeing you there!!
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Posted by Andy in Events, tags: Art, design
 The Design Museum, London, presents the first UK retrospective of Spanish designer and artist Javier Mariscal. Regarded as one the world’s most innovative and original designers of our time, Mariscal’s rich and diverse body of work spans kooky cartoon characters to stunning interiors, from furniture to graphic design and corporate identities.
The exhibition and graphics will be designed by Mariscal, promising an immersive experience for the visitor into the world and mind of Mariscal. The exhibition space will be a fully illustrated environment, rich with orchestrated scenarios and installations, each telling the story of Mariscal’s pivotal projects, designs and the drawings that shaped them. Sketches, designs, films and photographs will be on display alongside furniture and textiles. Mariscal will also design and paint an elaborate mural for the exterior of the Design Museum showcasing his unique vision and signature design style.
 Mariscal’s intense relationship with drawing and illustration is central to his career and has become the basis for his designs over the last 30 years. He gave Barcelona its graphic identity as it emerged from the Franco era, illustrating a sunny and optimistic city full of possibilities. In 1992 he introduced the world to Cobi, the official Olympic mascot of the Barcelona games. Mariscal has designed furniture for leading manufacturers such as Moroso and Magis, created interiors for bars and hotels as well as a retail and graphic identity for Camper and the interior of the recently opened H&M flagship store in Barcelona.
Painter, filmmaker, ceramist and designer, Mariscal’s work is shaped by a unique personal vision, a designer who doesn’t just observe the world but tries to shape it.
1 July – 1 November 2009
DESIGN MUSEUM, SHAD THAMES, LONDON
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 Do you dream of an individually designed kitchen with state of the art technology and streamlined appliances? Are you bored with your bathroom and longing for a more luxurious experience? Then we have the Show for you! If you’re looking for the latest innovations and sleek designs visit the UK’s only dedicated Kitchen & Bathroom Show, on at Sandown Park on 27 and 28 June, where your dream kitchen and bathroom awaits you,
Meet over 50 individual kitchen manufacturers and suppliers, often not seen on the High Street, who will inspire you with bespoke designs, the latest technology and a fabulous array of colours which could transform your kitchen from sad to sensational.
 Discover indulgent bathrooms to die for, featuring beautiful baths, designer taps and stunning showers, tempting transformations from a mere bathroom into your very own spa retreat.
As an added bonus, your ticket will give you free entry to the co-located and brand new Southern Homebuilding & Renovating Show. If you’re looking to improve, extend, renovate or even build your own home you can meet over 150 specialist exhibitors, attend free seminars and masterclasses and get advice from the experts. Your perfect home awaits you!
Tickets to The Kitchen & Bathroom Show are £5 in advance and £8 on the day (children under 16 go free). For more information visit www.kitchenandbathroomshow.co.uk or call 0844 581 1306.
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 Are you interested in picking up the latest in innovative products and services, inspirational design ideas, renovation tips and cost saving solutions for the home? Then look no further! The Homebuilding & Renovating Show, the UK’s only dedicated self-build and home improvement show, is coming to the South of England.
On at Sandown Park on 27 and 28 June, The Southern Homebuilding & Renovating Show features over 150 exhibitors, 36 free seminars and masterclasses as well as the unique opportunity to get advice from the Experts. This really is a must-visit event.
Whether you are looking for land to build your own home, want to extend your property to create an open plan kitchen or are thinking about converting your loft or basement to create extra space you will find the products, services, advice and information to help create your perfect home.
 Want to find out more about how you can improve your home? Then attend ‘How to extend and improve your home cost-effectively’, a free seminar at 11am on both days. Concerned about your impact on the environment and want to do more? Learn more about reducing your carbon footprint by attending ‘Zero-Energy Homes: can you really heat your home for free?’ a free seminar at 1.30pm on both days. Visit www.homebuildingshow.co.uk to find out more about the other free seminars and the masterclasses that run on both days of the Show.
If you’re still at the planning stage of your building project then bring along your drawings, plans or just your ideas and speak to one of the many experts at the Show and get some great advice. Visit the Homebuilding & Renovating magazine stand where Michael Holmes, TV presenter and Editor in Chief of Real Homes and Homebuilding & Renovating magazines, will be heading up a team of experts specialising in renovating, design, planning, self-building, and greener living.
As an added bonus, your ticket will give you free entry to the co-located Kitchen & Bathroom Show, the UK’s only dedicated kitchen and bathroom event that will help you transform your kitchen from sad to sensational or your bathroom to a spa retreat. Meet over 60 individual kitchen manufacturers and suppliers, often not seen on the High Street, who will inspire with bespoke designs and state of the art technology.
The Southern Homebuilding & Renovating Show is on at Sandown Park on 27 and 28 June. The Show features over 150 exhibitors, 36 free seminars and masterclasses and the chance to Ask the Experts. For more information and tickets, visit www.homebuildingshow.co.uk. Tickets are £5 in advance by calling 0871 945 4547 or £8 on the door (children under 16 go free).
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Posted by Andy in Events, tags: Art
 Private exhibition of my paintings at undisclosed address!
…another exhibition over and still the youth of today cannot recognize painting as an art. It is a digital culture, consumed with celebrity status.
After my 10 second installation at Bayswater, I will follow that in September with a private exhibition at an undisclosed address.
See if you can find it. Then we know you have an interest in painting!
See you there.
This one is titled “The Incomplete Works”.
It is a cruel attempt to ridicule the world and its mercenary work ethic tastes. A direct cartoon of the male at its most aggressive and cunning. The danger and greed of a male ego all portrayed in paint as two simple animals, the fox and the bird.
Up for the challenge?
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Posted by Andy in Events, tags: theatre
 This year’s Rough Diamonds get their chance to shine at Swansea’s Dylan Thomas Centre on Tuesday, 16 June at 7.30pm with an evening of new and exciting drama.
Want to change your appearance? Your lifestyle? Your entire world view? Go along to Rough Diamonds 09, the showcase for new drama from Swansea University’s emerging playwrights, where one of the featured plays offers a simple over-the-counter service for total life change.
On the other hand, if desperation has already set in, another of the scripts looks at life from beyond the grave and observes that afterlife bureaucracy is every bit as comically bad as the living, breathing version.
Along with these satires, the two-night programme features plays looking at life from the viewpoint of a pair of ambitious Swansea Jacks who want to open an art-and-wine bar, a young doctor who gets lost and finds herself in Fiji, and a jaded football terrace steward who just wants to get home without being thumped.
In a programme of works which are sometimes funny and sometimes deeply touching, Swansea’s talented new writers tackle subjects ranging from the danger of taking sides to the stranger aspects of camaraderie in a crisis, and they do so with great sensitivity and lyrical power.
This is the third year that Swansea University’s Creative and Media programme has joined forces with the Dylan Thomas Centre in the presentation of extracts from the works of graduating MA students.
The last two showings have been acclaimed by enthusiastic audiences and some of the works shown have gone on to have full-length professional productions. The works are performed script-in-hand by members of Swansea’s Fluellen Theatre Company, and directed by playwright D J Britton, lecturer in dramatic writing at Swansea University.
This year’s writers include Jude Brazier, Rebecca Carrington, Sarah Elliot, Catrin Howell, Louise Hinchen, Angela Hughes, Glynis Judge, Vanessa Macdonald, Andrew Miles, Matt Williams, Rachel Williams, and Casey Westlake, plus some surprise guests. Moving, funny and thoughtful, Rough Diamonds presents the works of a new generation of dramatists.
Go along and say you saw them first! Rough Diamonds 2 takes place on Tuesday, 30 June at 7.30pm.
Tickets £3 (Student Concession £2) and more information are available from the Dylan Thomas Centre on 01792 463980.
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Design Museum, London. 1 July – 1 November 2009
 Jan Kaplický, who died earlier this year aged 71, was the Czech architect responsible for some of the most remarkable buildings that Britain has ever seen. This exhibition curated by Deyan Sudjic will celebrate Kaplický’s career, his influences and unique futuristic vision for building design.
Kaplický was the driving force behind a new school of architecture and his buildings continue to stimulate, amaze and inspire. Kaplický pushed against the status quo, offering a unique personal vision. This exhibition celebrates the work of a gifted architect and designer.
Arriving in London as a refugee after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Kaplický worked with Denys Lasdun, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster. He established Future Systems with David Nixon in 1979 which worked initially as a kind of think tank. Astonishing drawings and plans for robot built structures spinning in earth’s orbit, weekend houses in the guise of space age survival pods and malleable interiors were just some of Kaplický’s visions.
Amanda Levete joined Future Systems in 1989, and together Kaplický and Levete began to build some of the practice’s best known work. In 1994 Future Systems designed the Stirling Prize winning media centre at Lord’s Cricket Ground and in 1999 designed the Selfridges department store in Birmingham, a sensuous iceberg like building that would win the 2004 RIBA Award for Architecture.
Deyan Sudjic comments “Jan was a remarkable architect, and a brilliant artist. We can only now begin to understand his impact on the shape of the contemporary world”.
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Posted by Andy in Events, tags: transport
 48hr London tube strike to take place from 9th – 11th June.
With the RMT union striking for 48 hours from the 9th until the 11th of June, millions of Londoners can expect to see their daily commute go down the tube.
However, there is one group of commuters who won’t be giving a moments thought to the latest industrial action – the legions of bicycle riding commuters who cycle to work in the capital.
“Ever since the strike has been in the news we’ve been hectic.” said Tim Rees, manager of Evans Cycles’ largest store at Spitalfields. “Commuters are fed up with the reliability of London’s transport and the sweltering conditions of the tube.”
Beat the strike, get a bike – 10% discount.
London’s largest cycle retailer, Evans Cycles is helping people to convert to two wheels and avoid the stress and strain of the tube strike, offering customers a 10% discount on bikes.
To claim your 10% discount visit the Evans Cycles website: Tube Strike.
Ben Hart, Evans Cycles’ Marketing Manager says, ”We always see an increase of sales surrounding tube and rail strikes as Londoners try cycling to beat the strikes, realise how quick and easy it is and keep cycling instead of going back to the daily drudgery of the tube.”
Strike busters
A popular choice amongst London commuters, folding bikes offer all the advantages of full size bikes but can be folded down and carried on public transport. Storing folding bikes is also much easier as they fit under your desk at work and take up less space at home.
The Pinnacle Journey 1.0 folding bike has 3 gears, mudguards and rack, and the same riding position as a full size bike.
Why not try something different and get yourself a single speed road bike? The current trend for fixed wheel bikes means there has never been so much choice from manufacturers. The Specialized Langster road bike boasts fixed and freewheel options but still has brakes for better control.
A great all rounder, the Scott Sportster P5 is packed with practical equipment with the option to fit mud guards and a bag carrying pannier rack. Larger wheels and slick tyres help riders stay agile and speedy on the streets.
For those looking for lashings of cool, the Pashley Tube Rider is perfect for cruising around town and arriving at work chilled and relaxed.
Using a bicycle for your regular commute is not only an excellent way of beating the tube strike, but also a means to a happier, healthier lifestyle and certainly beats using overcrowded public transport!
Evans Cycles’ cycle to work scheme, Ride2Work, has been developed to help businesses take advantage of the government’s Green Transport Plan.
Benefitting from some unique tax incentives, the Evans Cycles’ Ride2Work programme can take care of everything; the bike, the accessories, the servicing, the advice and administration, allowing employees to save around 50% of the price of a new bike.
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Posted by Andy in Events, tags: Art, design
Where does design end and art begin? Charles Eames, the most influential designer of the mid-twentieth century, said that:
‘Design is an expression of purpose. It may, if it is good enough, later be judged as art.’
 Contemporary young designers see the matter more pragmatically. According to the Spanish designer Jaime Hayon, ‘there is no longer a clear border between product design and art.’ The most recent answer to this question is inherent in the new phrase ‘design-art’.
Artists like Franz West and others investigate the changing functions of sculpture and in so doing dissolve the borders between art and design, between ‘free’ and ‘applied’ creation, by allowing hybrids from other areas to develop. In the field of design, on the other hand, designers like Ron Arad or Marc Newson are increasingly discovering the sculptural qualities of design.  They are distancing themselves from a conditionality of design – namely its function and the inherent possibility of reproducing something any number of times – and are creating unique items or small editions. The borders between ‘fine’ and ‘decorative’ art is becoming more blurred.
U.F.O.: Blurring the boundaries between art and design
Exhibition from May 23 2009 to July 5 2009
NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft
Ehrenhof 2, 40479 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Posted by Andy in Events, tags: design
 Minuteman Press Bristol has been announced as the headline sponsor for the third annual Bristol Design Festival. Last year was a roaring success and this year will be even bigger.
The Bristol Design Festival runs from 5 – 11 June and features a showcase of local talent with the event being a focal point for Bristol designers.
Neil Ferguson, Festival Director, confirmed:
“The Bristol Design Festival is proud and very fortunate to have the award winning Minuteman Press onboard to support the festival this year. Through supporting the Bristol Design Festival, they are also supporting hundreds of designers and creative businesses in the South West through these particularly difficult times. We are looking forward to working with Minuteman Press in 2009 and hopefully beyond!”
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