We’re very excited to announce a new commission with Folksy, which is helping us rekindle our love for Britain’s rich heritage of arts and crafts, going back to the Aesthetic Movement in the nineteenth century, beautifully encapsulated at the recent Cult of Beauty Exhibition at the V & A. Folksy is the UK’s biggest online…
You may not think you know him, but his name was Marshall McLuhan, and he was born one hundred years ago. His theories on media inspired Andy Warhol to say that “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” he is the professor who magically appears during an argument in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall,…
justintr: Idol – by Nabhan Abdullatif Twitter | Tumblr The mice have gathered to watch their favourite mouse in action. Awesome illustration by artist Nabhan Abdullatif. Follow him on Tumblr.
But some of us eat bowls of sparkly stars for lunch 🙂
There’s something about Sheffield. Its not quite the same something that Bali or the Bahamas might share, but taking the train back in the warm glow of the evening sun makes you appreciate the brave beauty of the English countryside. As well its testimony to British industrial history…
A game is a game is a service. Or so argues Ella Romanos, organiser of Extended Play – the first and only digital interactive festival launching in Plymouth this November. The festival will celebrate the human propensity to play with digital media, over the course of two days covering talks from key industry players, panel…
The invites said “carriages at 2am” but the guests at the Jazz FM presents Peppermint Candy launch party were dressed so beautifuly, you’d be forgiven for thinking they were transported in 1940s Rolls Royce limousines. Starting with the delicious Peppermint Candy cocktails created especially by Johan Svensson at Drinks Fusion, guests sat down to a…
We love roadtrips at Ladbury PR, and and on the way back from the Watershed Artist Residencies in Bristol, the rain finally stopped and made way for a beautiful sunset over London…
While writing Lady Windermere’s Fan in 1892, Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as “a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Had Wild survived till 2011, he may well have concluded that ours is an era of cynics. Everything we do, from putting on arts performances to running care homes…
John de Borman, President of the British Society of Cinematographers, in action. Each night since last week’s screening of The Shawshank Redemption followed by Q&A with its cinematographer Roger Deakins put on by the British Society of Cinematographers, we have been musing on his words of wisdom and considering the power of light and the…
We’re jumping and jiving with excitment in anticipation of the new swing programme Jazz FM are launching this month, from Thurday 19th May, featuring the Broken Hearts DJs aka the beautiful Amber and Nisha: The Broken Hearts will take us through the fascinating journey of swing, from 1920s New Orleans to noughties London, where a…
This time last week, we concluded a month-long campaign to help raise awareness of the international effort towards ending malaria, on behalf of the UK charity Malaria No More UK, whose small but dedicated team worked so hard to help campaign and fundraise for malaria efforts ahead of World Malaria Day on Monday 25th April….