COMPETITION!
AVA is launching an exciting new competition for anyone interested in creativity and idea generation. We want to know what inspires you.
Send us a picture of something that has inspired you, explaining in a few words the story behind it, and a picture of your final creation. It can be an item of clothing, a product, an illustration, design scheme or photograph, anything that shows inspiration, as long as it is your own work.
Our favourite entries will be included on our blog. The winning entrant will receive an AVA book of their choice, PLUS the chance for their work to feature in one of our forthcoming titles! Please send all entries to Katharine Nelson: knelson@avabooks.co.uk Good luck! The closing date is 15th October 2010.
Terms and conditions: All work submitted must be original and
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16th August 2010
Basics Advertising: Art Direction featured in Creative Review
Nik Mahon's Basics Advertising: Art Direction, appears in the August issue of Creative Review. The reviewer writes: "The latest in AVA's Basics Advertising series tackles the fundamentals of art direction from scamp to finished ad. As we've come to expect from this series it's clearly laid out, with digestible pieces of advice on all aspects of the job." This title, and the others in our Advertising series, are available to purchase from Amazon and other book stores.
16th August 2010
Praise for LEFT to RIGHT
David Crow's LEFT to RIGHT has received a glowing review from the Art/Design/Media Subject Centre, run by The Higher Education Academy. The reviewer states that "the book makes a valuable contribution ... and should be on the reading list of all undergraduate graphic design, communication and media students both for the range of ideas it offers for debate as well as for its design and wealth of visual material." The review also concludes that both this book and Visible Signs "are very well designed and produced ... with lots to attract the casual browser and stimulate the budding designer". Drip-dry Shirts is also available for review on their website, with £50 worth of book tokens available for published reviews. The full review, along with others, can be viewed here.
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10th August 2010
Converse/Dazed 2010
In late April, Converse and Dazed launched a major new art competition, designed to be a platform for emerging artists with a first prize of £6,000 and an exhibition for five shortlisted artists in the prestigious Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. The Converse/Dazed Emerging Artists Award 2010 was open to all UK based artists under the age of 35, not represented by a gallery and not then studying. The overall winner, Peter Ainsworth, and five shortlisted artists (who also won £1000 apiece) are currently exhibiting their work in the Stephen Friedman Gallery, and the exhibition is open until 23rd August. The award panel included highly esteemed artists, presenters and fashion insiders, and they picked the winning pieces based on how innovative, interesting and well produced they judged
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9th August 2010
BFI London Film Festival
The 54th London Film Festival, run by the British Film Institute, will take place between the 13th and 28th October 2010. It will be opened by Never Let Me Go, a film based on Kazuo Ishiguru's dystopian novel about the ethics of human cloning, starring Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley. In 2009 the festival was launched by Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox. It featured 15 world premieres and recorded its highest ever audience attendance of over 130,000 film-goers.
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