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Falmouth graduates fly free

June 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

More than 650 Art, Design and Media students were inspired by industry experts and encouraged to seize every opportunity to make their mark on the world as they graduated from University College Falmouth last week.
Graduates from the College’s innovative range of undergraduate degrees - from Garden Design and Graphic Design; Fine Art and Film Studies; [...]

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Why Hemp? - Environmentally Friendly Artist 2

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the things I mentioned in my first article was HEMP.
Why?

Hemp requires little fertilizer and is an incredibly hardy crop. It therefore is cheaper to grow, easier, and can be grown in many different parts of the world.
Hemp is remarkably pest resistant and therefore needs no pesticides
The Cannabis strain of hemp is actually different [...]

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Art and the Environment - Where Do You Stand? 1

June 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Nowadays we hear a  lot about conservation.  But how many artists that have their work printed and framed actually know if their prints are part of a conservation project or part of the mass throwaway society responsible for the climate changes and loss of wildlife?
The market is flooded with inferior products from areas that [...]

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Pick Of The Day - Kenneth Briggs - Illustrations

May 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Rate this: 2.5

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Museums compete for UK arts prize

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments

A London museum housing exhibits which explore the connection between medicine, life and art has been shortlisted for a UK art prize.

The Wellcome Collection, on Euston Road, is one of four museums shortlisted for the Art Fund Prize.
The others are The Lightbox, in Woking, Surrey, Shetland Museum and Archives, in Shetland, and the British [...]

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CreateAds.com to Offer Access to iStockphoto Image Collection

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

iStockphoto™, the world’s busiest image marketplace, announced today that it will provide users of CreateAds.com, access to its image collection of more than 2.6 million high quality images to generate ads of their own design. Users of CreateAds.com will be able to search iStock’s library of images from more than 47,000 contributors around the globe, [...]

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Unseen Hands: 100 years of Structural Engineering

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

17 March 2008 - 07 September 2008

For details of opening times please visit http://www.vam.ac.uk/your_visit/opening/index.html
Venue:
V&A and RIBA Architecture Gallery, Room 128A, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Description:
To mark the centenary of the founding of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), this exhibition celebrates the importance of engineering in creating some of the most iconic buildings of the [...]

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