Links from DeliciousGZEAN is a quartely zine produced by Moseley’s Gallery of Owls. It’s been created to:
harbor all those crazy little snippets of ideas that we all have from time to time in the format of photos, drawing and collage (any 2D images)
It costs £1 (plus postage) and you can get hold of one in person or [...]
Tru Life Magazine is a free, A5 publication I picked up a few weeks back when in the city centre. It’s a
new urban chic lifestyle magazine for aspirational young women
Justice Williams, the editor in chief, has her own blog over at Amariah’s World and the magazine has a Facebook page too.
Artism is an independent organisation aiming to create a book bursting with artists/graphic designers work which will be sold to raise money for the National Autistic Society charity through the use of Art
From Birmingham Clusta and Z3/Design Studio are both submitting work, possibly a few more are too. Artism are looking for sponsorship, if anyone’s [...]
Fused Magazine have just launched their revamped website, and a lovely thing it is.
For those that don’t know Fused, they produce a quarterly publication that covers fashion, music, arts, etc and so on. They also produced a rather good students’ guide to Birmingham, a responsible for the Ltd Edition affordable art market and promote local [...]
Way back when, I said that the London-based Volume Magazine was coming to Birmingham for it’s fourth issue and was looking for submissions.
It’s out now (thanks to Chris Keenan for pointing that out) and is really rather good. It can be read online here.
To help you in your browsing:
the first few pages are all Aston [...]
Frankie’s taken up the baton as far as new student rag Sanctuary is concerned. I posted about it yesterday but said I’d not seen the actual thing.
Here she is flicking through a copy and giving her thoughts:
No, nothing to do with the Digbeth music venue, Sanctuary Newspapers claim to be “the UK’s leading student newspaper network”. Monthly editions are produced by students in 12 different cities with the content tailored to their areas. A new Birmingham edition has just been launched with a website that looks thusly:
I’ve not found an actual, [...]
Brap, the Birmingham equalities charity, has racked up 10 years and is celebrating on Saturday night (20th Sept) at the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath.
Performing on the night will be The Special Beat (featuring Neville Staple and Ranking Roger) and ex-Birmingham Poet Laureate Dreadlock Alien.
Doors are at 9pm and tickets are £15 - available [...]
These are a series of short films (each around the 30 second mark) produced by the Eccentric City folks to celebrate their third year. There will be 24 in total, the first four are up on the Eccentric City YouTube account and also here:
Episode 1:
Episode 2:
Episode 3:
Episode 4:
Stay tuned for more…
Russell Hall (who has a blog too) is a freelance graphic designer in Birmingham. He’s been working on Speak Out - a free magazine for an equal opportunities company called Brap.
Here’s the blurb:
Every three months Speak Out will deliver a magazine packed with articles, stories, poems, photographs and comment, and to do this we need [...]
Not a movement to encourage the growth of facial hair, Beardaid is some new-think from the people behind the Birmingham-based Bearded Magazine. The idea aims
to help people working in the independent music industry gain more prominent, nationwide media coverage in the UK and abroad
For the price of a pint (£2, kids) a month they’re offering:
Free [...]
Volume Magazine is a quarterly, London-based arts publication geared toward the promotion of new artists, writers and musicians and they’re doing a special issue for Birmingham.
Which is good, is it not?
The concept in brief is to create an exhibition space at the stadium in which to display a diverse range of work by local [...]