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Call for Artist – live drawing event at National Museum of Scotland
National Museums Scotland is seeking an artist to develop and deliver a live drawing event on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th July.
Deadline: 17 June

Anthology 2016 | Call for applications    
Ten finalists will be exhibited at Charlie Smith London and receive £2,000 cash prize.
Deadline: 18 June

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The RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award 2016
The Barns-Graham Travel Award (£2,000) provides a travel and research opportunity for graduating and postgraduate students.
Deadline: 9 August

The RSA William Littlejohn Award 2016
The RSA William Littlejohn Award (£2,000) is for artists working in water-based media (any pigment mixed with water).
Deadline: 9 August

The RSA Morton Award 2016
The Morton Award (£5,000) is for artists working in a lens-based media in Scotland.
Deadline: 9 August

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 Head of Marketing & Communications | Edinburgh
Collective are seeking an experienced individual to lead the strategic development of marketing, public relations and communications.
Deadline: 20 June

Digital Project Manager: Glasgow
Everyone are seeking an experienced digital project manager to assist with the running of our busy city centre studio.
Deadline: 24 June

Various Jobs at SFMOMA | San Francisco
SFMOMA are looking to recruit for various positions including marketing, communications & digital roles.
Deadline: ongoing

Graphic Designer | Shanghai
Experienced Graphic Designer required for NeochaEDGE, an expanding company based in China.
Deadline: ongoing

Volunteer Correspondents
Tribe magazine are recruiting for both international and UK based correspondents to write articles, interviews & features around the arts.
Deadline: ongoing

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Commission, Galoshans Festival 2016
Awards are available for proposals in any art form and which are inspired by or fit within the festival’s theme: ‘When Two World’s Touch’
Deadline: 20 June

Open Project Funding: Call for Applications
Individuals & organisations can apply for funding from £1,000 to £100,000 to support supports the arts, screen and creative projects.
Deadline: ongoing

Night Shift Residency
A peer group residency focussing on attention economy and the 24/7 sleepless society for artists, art practitioners and writers.
Deadline: ongoing

FUNDING: Go and See Fund – Imaginate
A fund dedicated to helping artists in Scotland access work & shows to help inspire their next project.
Deadline: ongoing

Team Effort! Residencies
Residencies last for a maximum of 3 weeks between September 2013 & August 2014 to fit within Team Effort!’s ethos of exploration, risk-taking & collaboration.
Deadline: ongoing

Open Access Residency | Aberdeenshire
This residency offers artists the time, space, facilities & technical support to realise their work & to develop their practice & research new ideas.
Deadline: ongoing

Mark Devereux Projects Associates Programme
MDP announce their revised Associates programme which supports early-career visual artists through events, opportunities & critical exchange.
Deadline: ongoing

Woodland Project Residency
The Residency takes place in Cyprus and seeks to expand outdoor practice and explore the relationship between woodland & human being.
Deadline: ongoing

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Products Wanted | Glasgow
We are looking for great new designs by current students, practising staff, recent graduates and established alumni of The Glasgow School of Art.
Deadline: 22 June

Spoken Word Submissions Sought
Lies, Dreaming are seeking audio recordings of spoken word pieces on the theme of ‘Do you want fries with that?’ for our bi-monthly podcast.
Deadline: 30 June

Open call: Faraway, So Close
Selected participants will work within teams and exhibit under the main exhibition umbrella accompanied by a dedicated catalogue.
Deadline: 10 July

Call out, Creative Workshop Facilitators / Makers
Kalopsia are seeking proposals from Creative Workshop Facilitators / Makers for participatory workshops and activities.
Deadline: 1 September

Tin Roof ϟ Zine Fair
Tin Roof invites submissions from artists, collectives, publishers and presses to sell, network and enjoy print.
Deadline: TBC

The Glasgow Photography Gallery: Call for Submissions
See your photography showcased on one of The Glasgow Photography Gallery’s online spaces.
Deadline: ongoing

Peep Show Coffee: Call for Proposals
Peep Show Coffee are looking for proposals & ideas for short-term and long-term use of their project space.
Deadline: ongoing

Callout to Artists Looking for a Venue | London
Ziferblat is a social experiment. The space is ours & yours. To use to create, collaborate, experiment and play; what would you do with the space?
Deadline: ongoing

Hold Me Dear: Call for Submissions
Send a photograph of the place you personally treasure and include a 50 words caption explaining the story behind why this place is important to you.
Deadline: ongoing

Gallery Unit Open Call
Open call for exhibition proposals for new artist exhibition/event space at The Savoy Centre in Glasgow.
Deadline: ongoing

The Facility Makers Call Out
The Facility shop seeks products made in Britain including jewellery, textiles, prints, glass, furniture & ceramics to sell in the Facility shop.
Deadline: ongoing

Exhibit your artwork at Tchai-Ovna
Open call for exhibitors: proposals wanted for monthly solo exhibition at Tchai-Ovna, House of Tea.
Deadline: ongoing

Write Shoot Cut: Call for submissions
Write Shoot Cut is a monthly short film night. They are currently seeking submissions for various programmes.
Deadline: ongoing

Open Submissions for Moving Image Makers
An unconscious & uncurated stream of work will be displayed at Summerhall, Edinburgh for the indefinite future.
Deadline: ongoing

A.L.L. Seaweed
An Lucht Lonrach is searching for articles & artworks on the uses of seaweed.
Deadline: ongoing

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Six Foot Gallery Jewellery Benches for Hire
Six Foot Gallery would like to offer jewellers the opportunity to rent our jeweller’s benches.
Deadline: Ongoing

WASPS Studios: Creative Office Space Available | Nairn
WASPS Studios have one creative industry/enterprise space to rent at Links Studios in Nairn please click link for further details.
Deadline: Ongoing

Open Studio Club: Rent, swap & collaborate studio spaces around the world.
Free Event/Urban/Unusual/Studio/Rehearsal Spaces: 16–25 with an idea, creative project or business? Need a space to help make it happen? We’ll find a space to help you — for free!

Glasgow:

SWG3 Desk hire in Design Studio
Full and Half Desk spaces available in Design Studio 223
Ongoing

Studio Spaces and Co-working desks Available
Two studio spaces available, a space for 1 person or for 2/3 people, and co-working opportunities too.
Deadline: Ongoing

Workspace available for fashion project | Glasgow
Do you have a fashion related project and need space or equipment to develop it? The Fashion Foundry studio is opening its doors.
Deadline: Ongoing

Modern Office Spaces: Spaces available include; a coworking desk space, an office for 3/4 people & an unfurnished whole floor for up to 15 people.
Titan Props: Multi-use spaces for film & photographic shoots.
South Block: Creative space in Merchant City.
MAKLAB: A digital fabrication studio offering use of machines for engraving, embroidery, cutting shapes and making 3d objects.
Studio/Office desk space: Three spaces are available in a bright, secure shared office/desk space five minutes from Central Station.
Shapes Of Things Studio Available for Hire : Studio hire is aimed at those with a fair amount of silk screen printing experience.
The Distillery: Creative freelancer looking for a place to work? The Distillery at The Whisky Bond offers open plan space, quiet areas & meeting rooms.
Toad’s Caravan: Collaborative, creative working space based in the west end with desk space available to rent.
De Anderen Studios: Three spaces are available within the studio in addition to hot-desking facilities
Desks to rent in Creative co-working office space Flexible desk rental from hot desking to permanent available now in Glasgow’s West End with relaxed meeting room available for separate hire.

Edinburgh:

Whitespace: A space for classes and exhibitions.
Media Education: A desk space for hire close to Haymarket station.
Rhubaba Studios Available: Any artist can apply for studios at Rhubaba. All studio artists have access to the gallery space between exhibitions.
The Facility Studios: Involved in textiles, fashion or design? Studios now available to rent at The Facility, Edinburgh.

London:
Project space available at Enclave: A long-term project space will be available from October for individuals/groups of artists/curators running contemporary art programmes.

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Writers:
Pinso | Our Penniless Write | Product Magazine | Fractured West | Colossal

Moving Image:
Write Shoot Cut | Pluspace | The Cutting Room | Soundry

Members:
Fleet Collective, Dundee | Project Slogan Consortium, Aberdeen |
Just Us Collective | Make Works Directory | VAU: Membership Scheme

Artwork:
tribe magazine | artpistol | Product Magazine | Moray Art Centre | Editions | a secret.

Jewellery graduates:
Vanilla Ink

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ROLE
We  have an opportunity for experienced Producers to join our successful team in delivering a series of large media projects and interactive installations across the UK and internationally.

Working from our production studio in Glasgow you will be helping us to deliver content-rich digital experiences that include animation, live action filming, AR / VR, motion graphics and bespoke software development.

The role is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidates to become key members of our studio. You will benefit from the support of a strong creative and technical team and experience on a range of diverse, industry-leading projects.

You will have been involved in animation, games, television or film production or your background will be in digital production in either a design, advertising, online or software development studio.

You will have a  broad interest in culture, technology and the arts and be equally comfortable with creative or technical challenges.

Responsibilties
- Delivering high quality projects across a range of media and platforms, with the skills required to deliver on budget and on schedule.
- A great communicator who will organise and motivate their team and work alongside directors and creative leads to ensure their vision is realised.
- Liaising with clients to determine the aims of their projects and ensuring their requirements are delivered on time and on budget.
- Producing cost breakdowns and schedules and oversee projects from initial briefing to final delivery.
- Managing internal design and production team resources and co-ordinating external freelance associates or suppliers
- On larger projects leading a team of producers, production assistants and project managers
- Excellent reporting skills
- The majority of work will be studio-based with opportunities to work off-site at workshops, presentations, filming or post-production. Some international travel is also required.

Requirements
- 5 years+ professional experience within a media or software related environment.
- Demonstrable experience in handing budgets of £250k+ and the proven ability to work on complex multi-part projects across mixed media and different formats.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to deal directly with directors, designers, developers, production support and freelance associates
- Excellent client management skills
- The ability to quickly determine creative and technical requirements of projects and to put programme and resource planning into place
- Excellent reporting skills especially across budget management and scheduling.
- Attention to detail and a sense of ownership on projects is essential.

SUBMISSIONS
• Cover letter introducing yourself, your work experience and professional  interests. Please make sure if demonstrates the minimum requirements above.
• CV with two industry references
• An indication of salary expectations

The initial contract will be for 12 months full time though we would consider flexible or part-time working for the right candidates. Please indicate if this is a preference.

Please forward to opportunities@isodesign.co.uk

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Senior and Junior full time and freelance positions available at ISO Design, Glasgow.

ISO is one of the UK’s leading digital design studios. We create large scale immersive media and interactive projects for cultural clients, brands and television.

A number of positions for 2D/3D MOTION GRAPHICS and INTERACTION DESIGNERS has opened up at our Glasgow studio.

Full time and flexible freelance contracts are available.

Based out of our new studios in Glasgow’s Merchant City you will be working alongside ISO’s Creative Directors and Production team to design a wide range of media projects for UK and international clients, developing high quality motion graphics and animation with innovative interactive experiences.

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MOTION GRAPHICS DESIGNERS (SENIOR)

Responsibilities:

As a senior designer your role would start at the concept stage of a project, and you would be involved right through to delivery. We would expect you to be capable of taking briefs and conceptualising and storyboarding creative approaches. You would lead the development of designs, animation, sometimes composite live action and 3D with motion graphics, typography and illustrative styles.

You will be client facing with excellent communication and presentation skills and be comfortable collaborating and leading other designers and the wider production team.

Presenting ideas, both to colleagues and to clients

Strong conceptual thinking and storytelling skills

Leading the development, preparation and delivery of creative proposals and pitches, generating style frames, storyboards and sample animation

Generating high quality animated and motion graphics content

Working closely with creative teams, content managers, scriptwriters, designers, creative technologists, producers and project managers

Working on multiple projects at once

Requirements:

Excellent Adobe CC skills (After Effects, Premiere Pro and Illustrator)
Cinema 4D experience
5 years+ professional experience in a design, animation, interaction or games studio

Beneficial skills and experience:

Live action film direction or photography
UX / interface design
Information graphics or data visualisation
Experience of digital production pipelines and linear-to-interactive workflows
Video mapping or large scale media design
Character animation

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MOTION GRAPHICS AND INTERACTION DESIGNERS (JUNIOR)

Responsibilities:

As a studio designer you will enjoy working in a group and are fast learners and who show initiative and are willing to throw themselves into a challenge; that may be quickly learning a new piece of software, assisting on a live action shoot, double checking edits or digital assets before they are delivered or quickly developing a series of creative ideas to a client’s outline brief!

You will be working amongst ISO’s design and production teams to assist with the development of a wide range of work from linear animation and motion graphics (2D and 3D), illustration, graphic and brand development, UI and UX design and the development of digital assets for interactive software.

In return you will be gain invaluable experience across projects of vastly different scale and design ambition. These might might range from 360 degree film installations to television idents, large scale interactive environments to online animations.

The opportunities are varied so we are interested in people across a wide range of skillets.

Requirements

Good solid skills in Adobe CC skills (After Effects, Premiere Pro and Illustrator)
2D / 3D motion graphic or animation experience
Evidence of working in larger digital production teams
Evidence of personally designed projects taken from brief to delivery
Good presentation, writing and communication skills
2 years+ professional experience in a design, animation, interaction or games studio

Beneficial skills and experience:

Live action film or photography experience as director or assistant
UX / interface design
Information graphics or data visualisation
Generative graphics
Visual effects and composition
Installation work
Illustration or character development work
Specialist 3D skils (modelling, lighting, texturing, animation, rendering etc)
Experience of runtime environments (Unity 3D, Unreal etc)
Creative coding

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Submission details:

- Cover letter indicating the job you are interested in, introducing yourself and explaining why you think you would be a good addition to the studio
- CV with two references
- Digital link to examples of your work
- Please include the reference CEN_MGSJ_01

Please forward to
opportunities@isodesign.co.uk

No agencies, thank you.

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Award-winning broadcaster and director David Street (pictured above) made programmes for all the main UK’s TV channels before he turned to feature documentaries. Here he describes his career progression.

Getting the work habit

I was brought up in a small village in the peak District of Derbyshire. My family had a building firm so I spent most of school holidays working for the firm.

I had a variety of other weekend and holiday jobs during my teens, like paper rounds, Christmas postie, working in a textile factory, serving in a post office, but always it came back to working for the builders. By the time I left college as a qualified Art and Drama teacher at 21, I was running building sites, responsible for 50 or more men, often two or three times my age building a 100 plus homes at any one location. I was working 12 hour days often 7 days a week. After 18 months, a disagreement with one of my uncles, who was running the business, ended in me walking out.

Striking it Lucky

It was a two and a half mile walk to the next village where I lived, time to pull my thoughts together. I bought a Manchester Evening News and in the classified jobs section someone had written an advert just for me – or at least that’s what I felt.  They wanted some one between the ages of 21 and 25 – I was just 23, with an interest in Drama and Art – my qualification, who enjoyed watching TV – one of the reasons I’d been made to go to work as a youngster was because I was getting “square eyes” from watching too much TV. It couldn’t have been better.

I applied and after 2 interviews I was offered a job as a trainee assistant film librarian at Granada TV in Manchester – working 40 hours a week for 3 times the wages I’d received in the family firm. When I was told later that over 350 people had applied for the job I couldn’t believe my luck. I was given a great piece of advice on my first day, I was wide eyed and star struck being amongst the cast of Coronation Street, my boss Keith Thompson, just leaned over and whispered in my ear “they go to the toilet, just like you and me” bingo.

“Square eyes” was now getting paid to do what he loved doing, watching TV, or to be more precise, watching and logging TV films and clips – it was a fabulous time to be at Granada. The Bernsteins still owned the company but let Denis Foreman and David Plowright run it. I was watching material shot by the Mikes’ Apted and Newell, Johnathan Powell, Roland Joffe and the brilliant Leslie Woodhead, I was learning by osmosis, listening, watching soaking it all up. After a couple of years I made the move into the cutting rooms, as an assistant film editor working with such brilliant editors as the late Kelvin Hendrie on World in Action, Stan Challis and Tony Ham on drama’s like Country Matter’s or doing inserts for Coronation Street.

It was a different world. We had to be in before the editor, make sure the Acmade or Steenbeck was running smoothly, all chinagraphs sharpened, clean selvits to hand, no dust or single frame trims lying around and get teas and coffees before they were even asked for. Many would now see this as the bad old days, but for me the privilege of being in edits with brilliant programme makers such as Brian Moser, Gus Macdonald, Ray Fitzwalter, Brian Blake, a very young Steve Morrison and the inimitable Leslie Woodhead was a privilege. I was watching how they worked, how they thought, what they liked and what they thought was crap. It was a brilliant education. So brilliant, I feel sad that people coming in to the industry now don’t appear to have the opportunity to do this.

Setting up on my own

While working at Granada I met the fantastic animators Mark Hall and Brian Cosgrove, they were going to set up Cosgrove Hall in an old tobacco warehouse in Chorlton-cum-Hardy – I took a couple of room’s there, bought a couple of Steenbecks and set up David Street Editing Ltd with a contract to cut all Mark and Brian’s work.

Working with brilliantly talented animators and their proteges such as Chris Taylor, Jackie Cockell and Barry Purvis gave me a fabulous insight into the precision and accuracy of animated film making. During this period I started editing TV commercials. I found the discipline of telling a 30 second story fascinating and wanted to do it myself.

Buying the T shirt

This was my move in to Directing and Producing. It was a time when you had to have a showreel – no one would give you the chance to do it if you couldn’t prove you could do it – sort of Catch 22. Saving short ends from various commercial shoots, I eventually built up enough stock to shoot three commercials and with help from camera hire companies and labs I had a showreel. That was me a director – I could wear the T shirt.

Decades later after countless TV commercials and programmes I reverted to the same basic principles to prove I could make a feature documentary. Fortunately now the equipment is so much cheaper, shooting digitally and the computerisation of edit systems means you don’t need labs to process the film you can virtually do it all on your laptop, so that is how BATTLE MOUNTAIN Graeme Obree’s Story started. To get it finished though required a virtual army of brilliant people who all brought their own particular talents and skills to it.

Many more than five jobs later the basic principles I learnt in those early jobs on building sites, in shops and factories are still important. Turn up on time, be enthusiastic, work hard and never stop learning.

Read more about BATTLE MOUNTAIN in David’s My Process article Central Station here.

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We’ve asked professionals in creative industries what jobs they have had in the past to get their foot through the door (or at least pay the rent). For more in the “My First 5 Jobs” series look here.

The day started by heading to Queen Street Station for half 8. For someone who has just introduced the concept of weekends back into her life after year and a half getting up early on a Sunday is not that strange. When in Edinburgh, Kaye (who is also part of team) and I found our way to Novotel beside ECA for our shift at Censta hub as part of Edinburgh International Film Festival. After setting up and making the table all lovely with posters, flyers and badges (my goodness, those posters didn’t want to stay up), our job was to introduce the site to people taking part in Digicult’s Red or Dead talks, answer any questions and encourage people to blog about their EIFF experience. All went well. People seem to be enjoying the talks and chatting to each other between the talks.

My shift finished around 2pm and I decided to visit Edinburgh College of Art and their degree show as I had some time to kill before getting ready for Sound : Image : Art and the afterparty. The work I managed to see was all of high standards including some very interesting pieces such as 3D fabrics, educational software about ‘making sex’ and gorgeous performance costumes. Oh, and a moustache on a stick. I liked that.

When entering the main building I bumped into a friend of mine Luke and I never viewed everything on offer as we ended up talking about his time in ECA, graduating and putting his exhibition together, cameras and photography and we made tentative plans for a joint exhibition. I find talking to others who create things very inspiring as it pushes me to do more and you can never beat catching up with someone who you haven’t seen for months (and talking about cats, holidays and music).

It was all too soon time for me to head back to the hub and Luke to pack up his photos and leave the college for the last time. Next couple of hours were a whirl of putting up posters, setting things up, and getting something to eat just in time for people to arrive to Inspace for Sound : Image : Art.

It was great to see the final fruits of a project I had been involved from almost from the start. As an intern I had been there to contact people and push the project in social media. The event was a combination of networking, finding out more about Central Station and hearing views of everyone involved in the Soundtrack project in the beautiful white surroundings of Inspace. There were drinks, there were smiley faces, there were members’ work projected on the walls. But all too soon I had to run off again, this time to man the door of the afterparty which was buzzing. All that remains to be said is that you should have been there, the dance moves during Don’t Stop Believing by Journey were something else.

Please check out all the other blogs posted for the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010for more information and photos.