British photographer Tim Hetherington won the top prize at the 2008 World Press Photo awards, with the image above of an unidentified US soldier resting in a bunker in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan. The valley is infamous as the site of downing of a US helicopter and has seen some of the most intense fighting [...]
Entries from August 2008
World Press Photo Award 2008
February 12th, 2008 · Ric · 1 Comment
Tags: Photography
Exhibition at The Gallery
February 11th, 2008 · Ric · No Comments
Jersey based artist Jason Butler is currently exhibiting in Guernsey at ‘The Gallery’ in Mansell Street.
The work on show at ‘The Gallery’ comprises of portraits, both commissioned and private and the ongoing body of work, ‘Outsiders’. A number of drawings will hang along side a large number of paintings.
Tags: Art
Lego - 50 Years of Plastic
February 9th, 2008 · Adam · No Comments
The humble Lego brick, the toy that builds toys and the plastic seed of architects everywhere. Fifty years ago the Lego company put forward the patent for the plastic lego brick. The interlocking pieces with their stud-and-tube system was to prove ‘Toy of the Century’. Since that day 400,000,000,000 Lego elements have been made which [...]
Tags: Architecture · Art · Design
Greenhouse Exhibition: Eye to Eye
February 6th, 2008 · Ric · No Comments
A new photographic exhibition entitled ‘Eye to Eye’ opens soon at the greenhouse gallery.
Phil Sayer’s exhibition ‘Eye to Eye’ focuses on well-known artists, architects and designers of our time photographed in their studios or workspaces. This has been a recurring theme for Sayer’s work and many of the works on show have been private commissions [...]
Tags: Art · Photography
Britney Is Graphically Exposed
February 6th, 2008 · Adam · No Comments
Popstar Britney Spears, the once clean cut girl turned toxic rehab publicity mother has taken the design industry by storm. An actual storm I hear you ask, no a logo fuelled storm. Her new perfume ‘I Believe’ by Elizabeth Arden has been accused of shamlessly plundering another brand for its logo. The organization in question [...]
Tags: Branding · Music · Typography
