• Shoreditch Town Hall Is Saved
  • yesterday · Art & Design · 0 Comments · 464 Views
  • After a long campaign, the Shoreditch Town Hall has been saved from a group of developers who wanted to turn the building into flats. As a result, the iconic building will now undergo a £1.6 million transformation into an arts centre for music, theatre and arts events, cementing...
  • Maurice Sendak Dies Aged 83
  • 1 week ago · Art & Design · 3 Comments · 967 Views
  • Yet more sad news today as we hear that Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are and one of the most important children's book artists of the 20th century, has passed away aged 83. As well as forming an important part of many people's childhoods, Sendak's work was also...
  • Google Celebrate Keith Haring's Birthday
  • 1 week ago · Art & Design · 0 Comments · 579 Views
  • Google celebrate the late Keith Haring's birthday today, dedicating their homepage doodle to him. The pop artist, who sadly died in 1990 from AIDS-related complications, would be turning 54 today. The artwork cleverly moulds some of Haring's signature work into the word Google in...
  • Ubi-Camera: Take A Photo With Your Hands
  • 3 weeks ago · Art & Design · 0 Comments · 1922 Views
  • The idea of being able to take a photo by putting your fingers in a "photo frame" shape has been floating around for a while now - from graduate projects to Google's Project Glass - but now the researchers at IAMAS have brought the idea to life with The Ubi-Camera. The camera simply...
  • Video: A Preview of Photoshop CS6
  • 3 weeks ago · Art & Design · 0 Comments · 1122 Views
  • Adobe have released a short new presentation showing us what the latest version of Photoshop - Creative Suite 6 - will be capable of. Promising to be "faster and more fluid than ever before", Adobe have added 60% more feature changes than in CS5, including things like background...
  • Warhol's Double Elvis To Fetch $50m
  • 4 weeks ago · Art & Design · 0 Comments · 715 Views
  • The famous "Double Elvis" painting by Andy Warhol is going on sale through Sotheby's next month, and is expected to fetch up to $50m. The painting depicts Elvis Presley as a cowboy gunslinger in black and silvery grey and "epitomizes the artist’s obsessions with fame, stardom and...
  • Video: Simpsons Couch Gag by Bill Plympton
  • 4 weeks ago · Art & Design · 1 Comment · 1068 Views
  • American cartoonist and animator Bill Plympton has created a special version of The Simpsons' famous "couch gag", which runs before each episode. This new version ran before episode 18 of season 23 on Fox and sees Homer Simpson falling in love with a humanised version of the couch...