All mapped out?

Two exhibitions currently showing for free in London look at maps as visual objects and artworks

Whose Map is it? new mapping by artists

http://www.iniva.org/exhibitions_projects/2010/whose_map_is_it/

and

Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art

http://www.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/

Oral History of Visual Arts and Crafts

The British Library Oral History collection for Visual Arts and Crafts now includes:

Artists' Lives - a series of life story interviews with British artists and sculptors, part of a major project run in conjunction with Tate Archive.

Craft Lives - documenting the lives of Britain’s leading craft practitioners.

Architects' Lives - a rare opportunity to hear British architects talk about their routes into the profession and the challenges they met there.

Oral History of British Fashion - a collection of in-depth life story interviews.

Oral History of British Photography - an on-going project charting the development of photography in Britain.

The BBC World Service Photography Interviews - programme to discover in what ways the invention of photography has altered the way in which we see the world.

A full listing can be found at:
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/sound/ohist/ohcoll/ohart/arts.html

Many of the recordings are available though the Bristish Library Archival Sound Recordings website, click on 'login via your home organisation' to get access to everything that we subscribe to.  (Other recordings can be heard by visiting the sound archive at the British Library).

Link: http://sounds.bl.uk/
Access: Free

Missed World Graphics Day?

Its not too late to download the ICOGRADA poster and say why you value design....

Children's book illustration awards

The shortlist for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2010 has been announced.

Awarded annually, the medal highlights outstanding books in terms of illustration for children and young people.

Profiles of the chosen illustrators provide some background information on their work.

Guardian Datastore

Graphic by Robin Richards (used under Creative Commons licence)

The Guardian's series of factfiles being issued this week have used some interesting examples of information graphics to display their facts and statistics.  You can see some examples of this in their datablog.

They have invited readers to use the data to create their own graphics and display them on the Guardian Datastore Flickr site.

Link: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1115946@N24/
Access: Free

Archigram magazine

All nine (and a half) issues of the iconic Archigram magazine are now available on the Archigram Archival Project website.  Individually designed, the magazines were produced between 1961 and 1974 by the seminal architectural group Archigram and introduced their experimental work to a global audience.

Link: http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/magazine.php?id=96
Access: Free

Artists featured in the BBC Archive

Henry Moore at Kew, 2008

To coincide with the Henry Moore retrospective at Tate Britain, the BBC Archive has brought together a collection of films and interviews about the sculptor's life and work which can be viewed online.

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/henrymoore/index.shtml
Access: Free



Francis Bacon is another featured artist in the Archive.

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/bacon/
Access : Free

D&AD lectures

The D&AD President's lectures for Spring 2010 have been announced as:

Mike Byrne of Anomaly - 19th April

Collett Dickenson Pearce (CDP) : Tony Brignull, Sir Frank Lowe, Sir Alan Parker, John Salmon and Alan Waldie answer questions on one of the most important UK advertising agencies of the twentieth century - 19th May

Further details and booking information available at: http://www.dandad.org/buy/presidents-lectures.html

You can view previous year's lectures for free online, speakers include:  Ivan Chermayoff, Nick Bell and Kyle Cooper.

Link: http://www.dandad.org/membership/lectures.asp
Access: Free

Fashion blogs

Keep up to date with what's hot in the world of fashion blogging with 10 of the best, as chosen by Alice Fisher, style editor of the Observer.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/feb/21/10-best-fashion-bloggers
Access: Free

Tate Channel

Tate Player has been replaced with Tate Channel, showing a range of interviews, talks and performances relating to Tate exhibitions and events.  The site includes a selection of films by artists, including Yinka Shonibare, Gilbert & George, Fischli & Weiss, Liliane Lijn, and Langlands & Bell. 

Current ‘Editor’s Picks’ include films on John Baldessari, Mat Collishaw and Chris Ofili.

Link: http://channel.tate.org.uk/channel
Access: Free