Four years ago this week, some late night doom scrolling on X led to an interaction with a Polish academic, Dariusz Galasiński (who talks about the book here) looking for someone to illustrate a book. He had a team of clinical psychologists, academics and students creating a therapeutic story for…
Cambridge is full of amazing people selling their creative services and products. Please consider buying your Christmas presents or vouchers for services from your wonderful creative neighbours. Here are 10 suggestions to get you started:
Help 38 Degrees to fund their campaigning activities by buying our T-shirt! Our Campaign (click here to go directly to the Indiegogo campaign page) Hello, we’re Dittany Rose and Rebecca Scambler. Dittany is an educational consultant and jewellery designer and Rebecca is an illustrator and designer. As friends we quickly discovered…
I have really enjoyed producing two posters that are going to be a part of the Cambridge WOW Festival Women of Influence project. Feminist and inspirational posters are now going up all over Cambridge, featuring quotes from women in the city interviewed for Female Voices. Share a photo on Twitter if…
Rebel Arts is a local collective of like-minded, but individual artists and activists working together to raise awareness of the political issues surrounding us through the medium of the arts. Rebel Arts Radio is an eclectic mix of music, politics, art, discussion and debate formed by its presenters & contributors.…
The Art of Protest is a new blog and website launched at the end of January 2014. The aim is to bring together an inspiring, searchable archive of current and historical protests through a variety of art forms. I will be growing the archive myself but would really appreciate links and…
A Case for Action Sociology by GRAHAM SCAMBLER, ANNETTE SCAMBLER, NIKKI SCAMBLER, SASHA SCAMBLER, REBECCA SCAMBLER, MIRANDA SCAMBLER Oct 26, 2012 Photo: “Coming nearer to Big Ben IMG_4944′ from tomylee Flickr Photostream Five of us studied sociology at university while the sixth only demurred because her early artistic talent shone brightly.…
One lunch hour in May last year I was sitting at my work desk trying to decide what to do with the half term holiday just about to start (I worked for a publisher set up by teachers who decided to keep the school holidays!). Normally I would do a…
i found this book in Heffers in Cambridge last week and I have found it hugely inspiring. Each designer has a paragraph about their work surrounded by several pages from their sketchbooks. This is the kind of book that I know I will keep with me through the years and i…