The British Library's Spring Fair
A festival for the UK’s creative industries
The British Library
Saint Pancras
1–5 March 2012
At the start of next month the British Library proudly throws its doors open to creatives with its first ever Spring Festival. A long weekend of activities will kick off with a Spring Market on the Library's St Pancras piazza, and a range of supporting events will open up the Library’s vast collections for use by people in the creative industries, whether for graphic design, illustration or typography.
Bringing people together from across the creative spectrum, these events include a panel featuring Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett and much loved illustrator, Quentin Blake; a morning of networking and business advice with industry experts, including phenomenally successful ceramics designer Emma Bridgewater; and an after-hours pop-up exhibition of some of today’s finest illustration (including pieces by James Jarvis and Jon Burgerman), as well as the opportunity to see the iconic walls of the Library being covered in digital graffiti. There’s also Emotional Type, a discussion exploring the persuasive and subliminal nature of type and its ability to connect its audience with places and culture.
As well as offering a route into the Library's collections, the Spring Festival aims to highlight the wealth of free business advice and practical resources available to creative types via the Library's Business & IP Centre.
Frances Taylor who has helped curate the event says, “The British Library is committed to supporting the creative industries as we recognise the invaluable role they have to play in the success of the UK’s economy. The Spring Festival will help people to delve in to our collections in a new way, to excite, challenge and inspire the talented creative practitioners working in the UK today. We want people to have fun, play with the collections, discover uncharted territory, find help to develop existing work in practical ways and maybe stumble across their next big idea!”
Creativepool Competition
Win free tickets to Illuminate! at the British Library.
The British Library has been kind enough to give us two tickets for its sold out Late at the Library: Illuminate! event.
Taking place on the 2nd of March, this is an after-hours pop-up exhibition of some of the finest illustrators working today, including Jon Burgerman, James Jarvis, Alice Melvin and Martin Rowson, and gives you a chance to soak up some of the sumptuous art held at the Library from medieval manuscripts to their modern-day counterparts, including the world’s largest comic. The evening will include masterclasses and a bar as well as live musical performance from Mr Scruff.
To enter the competition, all you need to do is email chris @ creativepool.co.uk .
The British Library's Spring Fair
A festival for the UK’s creative industries
The British Library
Saint Pancras
1–5 March 2012
At the start of next month the British Library proudly throws its doors open to creatives with its first ever Spring Festival. A long weekend of activities will kick off with a Spring Market on the Library's St Pancras piazza, and a range of supporting events will open up the Library’s vast collections for use by people in the creative industries, whether for graphic design, illustration or typography.
Bringing people together from across the creative spectrum, these events include a panel featuring Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett and much loved illustrator, Quentin Blake; a morning of networking and business advice with industry experts, including phenomenally successful ceramics designer Emma Bridgewater; and an after-hours pop-up exhibition of some of today’s finest illustration (including pieces by James Jarvis and Jon Burgerman), as well as the opportunity to see the iconic walls of the Library being covered in digital graffiti. There’s also Emotional Type, a discussion exploring the persuasive and subliminal nature of type and its ability to connect its audience with places and culture.
As well as offering a route into the Library's collections, the Spring Festival aims to highlight the wealth of free business advice and practical resources available to creative types via the Library's Business & IP Centre.
Frances Taylor who has helped curate the event says, “The British Library is committed to supporting the creative industries as we recognise the invaluable role they have to play in the success of the UK’s economy. The Spring Festival will help people to delve in to our collections in a new way, to excite, challenge and inspire the talented creative practitioners working in the UK today. We want people to have fun, play with the collections, discover uncharted territory, find help to develop existing work in practical ways and maybe stumble across their next big idea!”
Creativepool Competition
Win free tickets to Illuminate! at the British Library.
The British Library has been kind enough to give us two tickets for its sold out Late at the Library: Illuminate! event.
Taking place on the 2nd of March, this is an after-hours pop-up exhibition of some of the finest illustrators working today, including Jon Burgerman, James Jarvis, Alice Melvin and Martin Rowson, and gives you a chance to soak up some of the sumptuous art held at the Library from medieval manuscripts to their modern-day counterparts, including the world’s largest comic. The evening will include masterclasses and a bar as well as live musical performance from Mr Scruff.
To enter the competition, all you need to do is email chris @ creativepool.co.uk .