Read the whole article here:

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/04/luxury-knitwear-inspired-by-brains/?pid=92

Jonathan Entwistle, our Creative in Resident 2011/12 for Category Film has made it to the Vimeo Festival Awards

Please go and Vote!

http://vimeo.com/awards/vote/narrative

Congratulation to Elspeth who has just won the 2012 Arts Foundation Award for Opera Composition.

Elspeth Brooke

Opera Composition – Winner 2012

Elspeth Brooke likes to break new ground. She is composing an opera, The Commission, in collaboration with librettist Jack Underwood, which is due to be staged by the renowned Manchester-based Psappha Ensemble. “The approach we have taken to integrating video – combining, for example, a character on screen singing in synch with live singers on stage – is a new approach in opera that has not been explored by other composers in the UK.”

The piece is about a Florentine Renaissance artist who decides he must cut off the head of the man who murdered his brother. The visual and musical styles are strongly reminiscent of film noir and, strikingly, the whole set will be portable – meaning the show can be staged practically anywhere.

“With every piece I write”, says Brooke, “I try to challenge myself to write more idiomatically for the instruments, to take a fresh approach to form and to find a unique sound world for that piece.”

Her training at the Royal Academy of music and Cambridge University has helped her to develop a fluency in the techniques of composing and orchestrating. At the same time, Brooke believes it’s important to stay connected with the “intuitive and emotional side of music making”.

Right now she is exploring ideas around layering different tempi and juxtaposing different characters of material – for example, niave, lullaby-like melodies contrasted with rhythmically complex materials. She is also composing solo pieces specifically for players who enjoy working with composers and playing new music.

Check out Brooke Robert’s AW12 Lookbook, shot at The London Independent Hospital

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Have a gander at this little profile/interview with the wonderful Brooke Roberts by London Fashion Week!

Bianca Wendt recently re-designed Viewpoint Magazine, have a look at the design here and an interview with her on the Grafik website here

Bianca Wendt’s blog

PIPS TAYLOR interviews Sabrina and provides snippets of her show for the fun-sized culture and arts video blog, Pinch TV. Including music by Anne Chmewlewsky and lighting installation by Roland Ellis and Andrea Cuius.

“I designed the window graphics of The Hospital Club, here are some shots of it going up on Sunday in the rain.

The window is the first stage in promoting the Creatives in Residence to the rest of the Club. The visual identity consists of an octagonal building block representing the fact that there are eight of us who are all very different, yet have come together for the journey of the CIR. A sum of parts making a whole. Eight facets representing ourselves and the collaborations we will have with the other seven.

These octagons have been colour coded for each person, and make up a modular typeface, with a word chosen by each of us installed by hand in the windows.

Next up: taking over the lobby with an exhibition I’ll be curating, and Sabrina Mahfouz (Theatre & Poetry CiR) will be weaving the eight words into a poem. Watch this space…”