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Archive for 14/01/2007

FILM: GHOSTS - Modern slaves without a ghost of a chance

New film about the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster highlights the problem of the three million illegal migrant workers who are ignored by our Government.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/01/modern_slaves_without_a_ghost.html

EXHIBITION: ‘Insyde’ by Airside

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
16 September 2006 - 25 February 2007

‘Insyde’ is an interactive installation by the people at Airside.

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/insyde/

EXHIBITION: The Annual Exhibition of David Hockney

The Gascoigne Gallery – Royal Parade, Harrogate

  

Etchings and lithographs from the prolific print maker, including images from America and Yorkshire.

 

http://www.thegascoignegallery.com/the_annual_exhibition_of_david_hockney.html

Web Wizards

The development of digital and interaction design. 

A gallery of the pioneering work on the cusp of art, design and technology:

http://www.designmuseum.org/digital/web-wizards

Jonathan Ive on Apple - Digital Design Museum

Jonathan Ive, head of design at Apple, discusses the development of the iMac, iPod and other products.  

http://www.designmuseum.org/digital/jonathan-ive-on-apple

Apple iPhone faces uncertain market

Apple’s iPhone could be a hit in the high-end phone market and work wonders for partner Cingular’s image, but the device that stunned Macworld Expo attendees is likely to have a narrow market.

http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=6938

UK government to close 551 Web sites

The memory of George Orwell is apparently alive and well as shown by a UK government statement that “at least 551 citizen-facing government web sites are to be shut to make access to information easier for citizens and businesses.”

http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=6939

Photo-realistic Illustrator drawings of people

Check out the mind blowing work done by the Illustrator artists. From afar you can’t tell the difference, it’s only when you look up close and see the various shapes they used to create the different body parts, only then are you able to discern the difference.

http://design.weblogsinc.com/2006/08/09/photo-realistic-illustrator-drawings-of-people/

EXHIBITION - Arrivals and Departures: New Art Perspectives of Hong Kong

urbis - Manchester

Arrivals and Departures is the first major exhibition on Hong Kong to take place in the UK, and marks the ten year anniversary of the city’s ‘handover’ from Britain to China.

http://www.urbis.org.uk/page.asp?id=3022

EXHIBITION - Experimental Photography from the Bauhaus Sculpture Workshop

Henry Moore Institute Leeds

The Henry Moore Institute showcases a collection of remarkable and little-seen vintage photographs which explore how innovative photographic practice became central to the activity of the Bauhaus sculpture workshop in Weimar Germany.

http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/matrix_engine/content.php?page_id=4108