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The Rose Street Project

lauren — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 10:37:58 +0000

An artist-led project with independent retailers along Edinburgh’s Rose Street has appeared in time for Christmas.
Curated by Edinburgh Palette, the project involves retailers collaborating with illustrators, ceramicists, textile artists and printmakers to create Christmas window displays with a difference.

Mail Boxes Etc. Izzy Bocchetti

The highly individual installations for The Rose Street Project create a public gallery right on the high street, providing public art open to everyone visiting the city, day and night until early January.

The project is a result of measures put in place by Essential Edinburgh to improve Rose Street’s identity and community engagement. Nestled between George Street and Princes Street, Rose Street and its independent retailers are often overshadowed by the major retailers nearby. This project aims to help put Rose Street on the map by boosting footfall and increasing activity there.

Murdo Maclean’s Anupa Gardner

Social Bite Louise Smurthwaite

The result has been less about traditional Christmas display, but instead has created highly individual installations in a new, public context, demanding new and fresh approaches to the invited artists’ creative practices.

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Bearing GIFs

guest — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:30:20 +0000

Bearing GIFs is a collaborative project curated by illustrator Charlene Man showcasing 25 different artists to each create a looping gif based on the theme ‘Meme’.

Presented as an advent calendar, Bearing GIFs will release one Gif a day up to Christmas, each day they will showcase a GIF by one of their selected artists/designers.

See a full list of participating artists here.

Cubic Light Tree

genny — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:30:29 +0000

Creative studio, The Neighbourhood, decided to do a little something special for themselves this Christmas using inspiration from their 3D projection mapping projects…

Read this blog for more on the Cubic Light Tree and have a browse around their new website.

Shape Christmas

genny — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:05:16 +0000

Manchester studio, Shape Design have released their festive interactive countdown to christmas 2011 in collaboration with illustrators from around the globe.

A new illustration will be revealed everyday throughout December up until Santa arrives on the 25th. All of the featured illustrations will be available to download for FREE as wallpapers for iPad, iPhone and Android devices.

Illustrators from around the world include the likes of Alan Heighton (popular for works in Creative Review, The Guardian, The Financial Times and artwork for The Arctic Monkeys), Gareth Hughes (designer at Magnetic North), Santos Henarejos – a very talented creative from Spain, and that’s just to name a few. To reveal more artwork visit the website and unveil a new illustration everyday!

Once they reach our follower target, they will give a special gift to one lucky follower on Twitter.

Take a look.