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Swimmer out of water


Who is killing Fashion?  You are killing Fashion.


The Nottingham Writers’ Studio


Paris. Milan. Bilborough.


Because We Can


Sir Christopher Frayling


Shane Meadows


Ian Rankin


Control


Once upon a time in the west, there was lace


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Swimmer out of water

I so look forward to going swimming at the Victoria Leisure Centre. I love that pool’s Olympic length in its resonating, vintage surrounding. But that’s not why I long to go. ...(read more)

Who is killing Fashion?  You are killing Fashion.

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Guiseppe Prada, no relation, is a world authority on Fashion. Listen to him....(read more)

Paris. Milan. Bilborough.

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Our Editor meets the Nottingham seven and eight year olds who worked with Vivienne Westwood on her 2008 Paris Fashion Show....(read more)

Because We Can

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Andy Barrett is a Nottingham based playwright, director and performer. His work has been commissioned by a wide range of bodies including the Nottingham Playhouse, Leicester Haymarket, BBC Radio, New Perspectives, Amnesty International and the Church of England. He has also written over thirty community plays and with Julian Hanby produces large scale site specific community performances across the East Midlands....(read more)

Once upon a time in the west, there was lace

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An interview by lynn hanna, with Godfried Donker, the artist behind the controversial Lace and Slavery project....(read more)

Fish, Horses and Other Animals: Professional and Business Development in the Creative Ecology

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Nottingham Creative Network has published a great new book that offers useful advice for developing your creative and business thinking. It includes contributions and interviews with established creative businesses who have already been there, as well as exercises, think pieces, case studies and other interesting little stories. Below you'll find an extract of a chapter to give you a taste of what to expect....(read more)

Design Everywhere

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Why is design not a bigger issue in the public conscience?...(read more)

Working 5 to 9

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Earning a living in the permanently connected era. Kieran Hoban, Enterprise Architect and Technologist gives us his perspective on how technology is creating information pollution. ...(read more)

The Pod. How a democratic process lead to Nottingham’s most exciting new building.

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The Pod is one of the most exciting new buildings in Nottingham. The building was procured through a democratic competition process that looks after the interests on the city as well as the developer....(read more)

Creativity is the organic brand of a city

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In October 2007 Nottingham will hold its first creative business awards to acknowledge the city’s thriving creative community....(read more)

Design. Responsibility

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Early experiences of the design industry gave me a life long impression of a world of immense possibilities, squandered. ...(read more)

Copyright in the 21st Century: Fair Trade or Foul Play?

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On the evening of March 8th this year I spent an hour and a half in the parallel world of the professional writer, courtesy of a public debate organised by the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society to discuss the future of copyright. ...(read more)

Mostly Harmless

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She has called British teenagers ‘arsey’, accused our men of only getting emotional about ‘silly, inconsequential things’ such as ‘Freddie Flintoff being bowled out, iPod malfunctions’ and conspiratorially pointed out the fashion disaster ‘coma shopping’ the other fifty-percent of the population allegedly indulge in. ...(read more)

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