Résumant 30 heures de travail dans une vidéo d’un peu plus de cinq minutes, Bob Case a réalisé un poster d’une grande beauté pour Pedal Craft, un évènement annuel pour les cyclistes à Phoenix. Sur la musique « Queen Of The Surface Streets » de Devotchka, cette vidéo montre tout le talent de l’artiste.
With the imminent launch of their new factory and global headquarters—the first move for the brand in 80 years—Filson invited us in for a first look at their new space. We got a unique peek…
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by Gavin Lucas Hole & Corner is a brand new bi-annual print magazine devoted to “celebrating craft, beauty, passion and skill.” Hot off the press, issue one takes a look at how Chris King carefully…
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Continuing his curious exploration of alternative uses for animal bones, Portland’s Stephan Alexandr recently released his latest artistic creation—the Fangblade. Carved from alligator jawbones, the handy letter-openers still sport vestigial teeth to remind its user…
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News: crafts will no longer be considered part of the creative industries under proposals published by the UK government this week.
The proposed change is part of a review of the UK’s creative industries set out in Classifying and Measuring the Creative Industries, a consultation paper released by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport yesterday.
“We recognise that high-end craft occupations contain a creative element, but the view is that in the main, these roles are more concerned with the manufacturing process, rather than the creative process,” says the paper.
Arts and antiques will also be dropped from the list of recognised creative industries, while other categories will be merged into “broad creative industry groups”.
A number of new IT categories are proposed to reflect the growing technology sector.
Announcing the consultation, culture minister Ed Vaizey wrote on his blog: “Huge and rapid changes in the use of technology and digital media in the creative industries means that it’s time to take a full review of our classifications.”
He added: “Digital tools are now utterly embedded in the creative process, so we want to introduce some areas of IT that are used creatively.”
Adopting the new classification system boosts the number of people employed in the UK’s creative industries to 1,487,000 people, according to the DCMS, compared to 897,000 under the previous methodology. The figure rises to 2,153,000 if creative occupations outside the creative industries are taken into account.
IT, software and computer services is the biggest of the new broad creative industry groups, with 470,000 employees, according to the paper. Publishing employs 214,000 people while Film, TV, radio and photography account for 205,000 jobs.
Music, performing and visual arts employ 182,000 people. Advertising and marketing is the next largest with 144,000 workers, followed by Design and designer fashion with 103,000. Architecture is the smallest of the new broad creative industry groups, employing 99,000 people.
The proposed changes are intended to update the ground-breaking 1998 Creative Industries Mapping Documents, which were one of the first attempts to quantify the value of creative businesses to the economy.
The review adopts the “creative intensity” methodology to discern which sectors should be included as creative industries. Any industry where more than 30% of workers do creative jobs is considered a candidate for inclusion.
Consultation on the proposed changes closes on 14 June 2013. Details of how to respond can be found here.
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When we last caught up with Portland-based artist and designer Stephan Alexander, he had just put the finishing touches on a stunning SS11 collection for Sticks & Stones accessories—a label he co-founded in 2009. While time hasn’t changed his role as the brand’s creative director, Alexander has recently begun…
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Robbie Maddison est particulièrement connu pour son talent en motocross qu’il démontre avec cette superbe vidéo réalisée à Tucson en Arizona dans un cimetière d’avion. Une création magnifique appelée « Air.Craft » réalisée par l’équipe de DC TeamWorks. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Our Quarterly Co subscribers know we love to work with artists and are very inspired by our travels. CHQ05, just hitting mailboxes, celebrates Huichol, a traditional Mexican art and craft using small colorful beads to decorate clothing, instruments, animal figures, skulls, and other items in traditional motifs including rain,…
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Making the rounds on the web this week, a charming set of light fixtures inject sleek design—and fun—into the realm of bottle lamps, which can run the risk of looking like DIY kitsch. Animal Farm, a series of abstract pig, giraffe, penguin, hippo and elephant figures made from upcycled…
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A Frank Lloyd Wright design you can safely demolish and rebuild again without fear, the new Pop-Out Guggenheim Museum is an entertaining eight-piece puzzle conceived by Atlanta-based artist Marc Tetro. The simplified cardboard version comes packed flat, and the large components easily pop out and fold up allowing anyone…
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