RSA

RSA (Royal Society for encouragement of Arts) – various programmes, events, grants, etc.
RSAnimate: 21st century enlightment:

V&A maps by Johnson Banks

a collection of maps for V&A and London design festival by johnson banks

wills moody jumblesale

Wills-Moody Jumblesale, 1st Sunday of every month (except Jul-Aug)
St Aloysius Social Club, 21 Phoenix rd., Euston (Google Maps)
'Since it's start in Feb 2005 the Wills-Moody Jumblesale has been a great success and given us plenty of happy times. Its a perfect day out for jumblers and londoners with late start, bar, Sunday music, cakes for charity as well as amazing finds such as records, clothes, books, comics, jewellery, vintage stuff, brick-a-brack and much much more.'

battersea power station development

Rafael Vinoly architects are doing the Battersea development project:
'The masterplan for the Battersea power station – a grade-II listed, large former electric power plant along the river Thames – aims to create a mixed-use sustainable development offering commercial and retail functions as well as residential, cultural, and event spaces interspersed with community facilities and a zero-carbon energy plant for the adaptive reuse of the power station itself. The iconic historic structure of the power station functions as the focal point of the site’s regeneration, which aims to create a self-sufficient and vibrant new community serving as the anchor of the Vauxhall/ Nine elms/ Battersea opportunity area.

The primary design goal is to reinforce the presence of the power station as the main architectural feature of the site by setting it in a formal space ('the circle') defined by a reflecting pool and open to views to and from the Thames river and its north bank. Further, accessibility to the site is increased by creating three primary streets that link the power station to the site’s southern perimeter and through to a future extension of the waterfront park and river walk.'
Designboom article

effectivedesign

some awesome design work from EffectiveDesign (Glasgow), including Candy Cranks fixed-gear branding:

Britain thinks!

...even about immigrants! interesting, anyway.

Kate Gibbs

artist's blog
+ Huck magazine article

London calling

a few events to put down:
Michael Wolff at Typographic circle (3.12 7pm, £5, tickets from 14/11)
ICA experimental music festival (14-22 Nov)
London Jazz festival! NOW

NEW opportunities

Illustration/GD competition
Artists, illustrators, designers of all levels. We're looking for mailable artworks to exhibit as part of a group show entitled 'MAIL ART' in January 2010. 'MAIL ART' was realised by Long Gallery Coordinator Alison Stockwell in response to the number of submissions the gallery recieved from UK based artists outside Glasgow who wished to exhibit but didn't have the funds to travel to Glasgow with their work. By inviting artists to send select pieces of work by post it gives them the opportunity to exhibit as part of a larger group exhibition without incurring any travel costs. As part of 'MAIL ART' artist Susan Mortimer, creator of Mail Art One Zine, will be making a special edition of her zine featuring selected work from exhibiting artists. There will be a limited amount of copies available free during the exhibition.

• All work must be submitted by post and be no larger than a standard large envelope. Sorry but we cannot accept work that cannot be wall mounted.
• As the work will be displayed in a public and family environment we cannot exhibit any work that is of an explicit nature.
• Mail Art Zine - Work can be any size to fit A5 and on paper (see website below for details).
• Everyone who’s work is selected for the exhibition zine will receive a copy of the issue.
• Unfortunately we cannot pay anyone for their work as Mail Art is free.
• If you wish to have your work returned to you after the exhibition please enclose a self addressed, stamped envelope.
• Deadline: 26th November ‘09

Re-Design your world!

We want you to design images and posters that we can display at national, regional and local events that encourage young people to go to www.myplatform2.com and sign up to be sent off, or images that stress just how evil poverty is. There is no huge cash prize but we will give the best designs a bag full of goodies and you will be doing your part in helping rid the world of the scandal that is poverty… oh and we can give you some chocolate! (fair trade of course).

Design/illustrate/create an image of any size for display which encourages young people between 18-25 to go to www.myplatform2.com. OR: to join the fight against poverty.

Sense Worldwide

 

Typogrphic heart

British Heart Foundation Annual Review

MORE STUFF TO DO, SEE & LISTEN

12-13 Sep. Thames festival
26-27 Sep. Village fete, NT, 12-7pm, 12-3pm
13 Sep. Spitalfields show & green fair, Weaver st.
Alternative arts
16.09-2.10 The Scoop open-air screenings, wed-fri 7pm
10-11 Sep. Forum 3, Angel
9-13 Sep. One-dot-zero, BFI southbank

Health&Food

NHS Live well
Food Standards Agency
5-a-day
Change 4 Life

H&F Volunteering

Your London: jobs
H&F volunteering
London voluntary service council (LVSC)
National council for V. organisations (NCVO)
Charity commission
Interchange: creative community culture
Community & voluntary sector association (CaVSA)
Volunteer centre
Job search support
Global Xchange (volunteering abroad)
Kensington & Chelsea volunteering

September: London

Open house London (19&20 Sep)
Police Auctions 73 Sceptre Road, London, E2 0JU (3, 17 sep; 1, 15 oct) 11pm start, 12 pm vehicle sale
Bumblebee auctions
Halfords - bike shop
Musical Museum: concerts

more London cycling

SE1 community website

Cycle show, Earl's court (8-11 oct)
Serpentine sport training sessions
Cycle safe London
Bike-for-All
Go Skyride (Putney heath to Bushey park circular/2.5 hrs/The Telegraph Inn, Telegraph Rd, Putney Heath/7pm Wednesday 26th August)
Bike Radar
Bikes on public transport
EVANS cycle voucher
Bike to work sampler book
London cycle network
The cycling experts
Bikeability
Mayor of London Skyride (20 Sep)
4 parks Skyride (13 Sep)
Richmond park ride (6 Sept)

Ctrl.Alt.Shift comic competition

Ctrl.Alt.Shift is looking for submissions for their comic design competition, Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Poverty.

Oscar nominated Marjane Satrapi, V V Brown and Lightspeed Champion are amongst the judges for the Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption competition. Corruption is both a cause of poverty, and a barrier to overcoming it. It is one of the most serious obstacles to eradicate.

Entrants to the competition will be in with the chance to create a unique comic style story in collaboration with acclaimed musician and writer Dev Hynes aka Lightspeed Champion. After the first round of judging at the end of September, shortlisted entrants will be given Lightspeed Champion's comic script as inspiration and asked to create a visual adaptation of the story.

The winning commission will be published in a comic alongside new work exploring the issue of Corruption by some of comic’s greatest talents. The work will also be showcased as part of a new exhibition, Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption, later this year at Lazarides Gallery, Soho.

To enter the competition please send relevant examples of your visual work along with your contact details to Ctrl.Alt.Shift by Friday 25th September by visiting the website.

Five shortlisted artists will then be given a comic brief to respond to and a winner chosen by a panel of judges including: Marjane Satrapi (Writer and Director of Academy Award Nominated Animated Film Persepolis) Paul Gravett (Comica founder), V V Brown and David Allain (Musician and Comic Book Writer/Artist duo), Lightspeed Champion and Ctrl.Alt.Shift.

The competition is restricted to UK Residents only.

H&F events & places

The best of...:
...hamersmith & fulham
...southwest london
...kensington & chelsea
...central london!

The Fulham palace
British swimming
Simply swim
Western Kurdistan association
Give blood: session searcher
Parachute jump (contact Laura Busse on 020 8382 8018)

swishswash

T-shirt design competition (£2009 reward & commission) + logo redesign competition (£500)

Watermans gallery

exhibition&events space in London
(40 High Street, Brentford TW8 0DS, near Kew gardens)