Happy Easter android users, Instagram is finally available for your smartphones. Perfect timing to flood the micro-blogging site with pictures of yolk-yellow daffodils and sprouting tulips. Hurrah! (Btw, the retro-look filter is optional, not obligatory.) Apparently not all iPhone users are too chirpy about [...]
And the winner is . . . drum roll please . . . dadadadadadadada . . . Jonny Duddle! Congratulations Jonny! Waterstones have awarded their prestigious Children’s Book Prize to illustrator Jonny Duddle for The Pirates Next Door, his picture book “full of wit [...]
Sharpen your pencils! Or rather, prime your digital paintbrush settings, for Ilex’s new release Digital Painting for the Complete Beginner is NOW IN STOCK. To mark the occasion, we’re lucky to have award-winning artist and author Carlyn Beccia give us insight into the tricks she’s [...]
From the maker of Microbot, 2008, comes Microbot’s new arm, 2011. Josh Buczynski, co-author of Build Your Own Paper Robots, has been busy developing new paper technology which he’s used to give Microbot an upgrade in the form of new, improved arm joints. You [...]
Bye, bye Indian summer; hello flu-season. My, don’t you look nice! New hair? Looking at Luke Jerram’s stunning glass sculpture of the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus, you might be forgiven by colleagues this season for passing on a common cold. Jerram’s sculpture is an [...]
Wouldn’t it be great if you could condense a century of iconic design into a small, pocket-friendly sourcebook, a travel guide through the designs of the decades per se? Whhat?! That’s a big yes, obviously. You probably know where I’m going with this . [...]
Exciting news folks – if you like anime and manga, or the performing arts. Huh? Yep, the performing arts, specifically, contemporary dance. The life of Osamu Tezuka, aka ‘The God of Manga’, or sometimes ‘The Walt Disney of Japan’, is to be animated via [...]
For everybody who loves a good checklist, The Guardian has put together a literary register of the 100 greatest non-fiction books ever written. It’s always a difficult task, pooling the preferences of many a book worm and having to whittle down the selection from [...]
