Today Soupa has been nominated a winner for the CSS design awards. The CSS for our site was developed by Eurico Sá Fernandes with creative direction by myself representing Ok-Jo Studio. Exciting stuff!
Colour me Totem - inkygoodness
Inkygoodness are calling for submissions for – Colour Me Totem – their first online creative project!
Colour Me Totem
Here’s your chance to be part of the inkygoodness Character Totem project..
Discover your inner character – doodle, ink, paint or digitally design your own Character Totem. Give him a name & send us the results!
All you need to do is:
- download
- print off
- customise
- scan
- submit
All you need to do is download the Colour Me Totem pdf below and get drawing. Give your characters a name, along with your web address & contact details and keep a close look at their gallery for your Totem to appear.
Send your submissions to: inkygoodness@easy.com – no later than Friday 25th March. All entries will be uploaded to their evolving Character Totem online gallery. The best entries will be displayed in the Neurotitan Gallery as part of the official Character Totem exhibition at Pictoplasma this year – so what are you waiting for? Get involved!
YARN fest - this weekend!
Yarn Festival is happening this weekend. If you are in East London on Saturday, Sunday or Monday evening pop along to meet some of the Soupa illustrators and see some great story telling and live illustration! You can watch or take part - either way you will be in for a great time!
Zine workshop / Free / Sat 19th Feb - 12pm - 5pm / The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street
< more info and to book here >
Come along and make your own zine with the help of HATO press, EFDEAY, Soupa and Cure Studio. There will be an opportunity to create characters with Elissa Elwick and Jessica Allan, make narratives with EFDEAY and stitch, fold and make the zines with Soupa friends.
We may even be bringing some screen printing screens to print the covers so come along and get inky!
You can just pop along, if you decide last minute. Or come along for the whole session, spend hours on creating your perfect zine or just pop in and have a go.
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Illustrationarium / Free / Sunday 20th Feb - 12pm - 5pm / The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street
Release the doodle and turn words into pictures. Join in with YARN downstairs at the Book Club and create your own illustrations using an OHP, pens, paper and whatever else you can find!
In partnership with Cure Studio and Soupa Creative Network
Book a slot here (or pop in on the day): http://www.yarnfest.com/illustrationarium/
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Illustrationarium – LIVE! / £3 / Sunday 20th Feb - 6.30pm - 8.30pm / The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street
< more info and to book here >
Hear the words and see the story illustrated live.
Authors, storytellers and illustrators, include Chris Cleave, Helen Smith, Rachel Rose Reid, Neil McFarland, Carlos Garde-Martin, Luke Waller, Harriet Gray and Jessica Allan.
In partnership with Cure Studio and Soupa Creative Network
Katy Darby will also be joining us. Katy Darby’s work has been read on BBC Radio, won various prizes, and appeared in magazines including Stand, Slice and Mslexia. She teaches writing at City University, edits the literary magazine Litro (www.litro.co.uk) and runs monthly fiction event Liars’ League (www.liarsleague.com). Her first novel, Whores’ Asylum, will be published in 2012.
Chris Cleave’s debut novel Incendiary won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize, won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction award 2005 and won the Prix Spécial du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007. His second novel is titled Little Bee in Canada and the US, where it is a New York Times #1 bestseller. It is titled The Other Hand in the UK, where it is a Sunday Times bestseller. It was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards.
Rachel Rose Reid is a Storyteller, creating Live Lit performances to melt boundaries and build bridges between the oral tradition of our ancestors and the spoken word of today. She has been named a rising star of the festival circuit by the Independent on Sunday, and is a winner of the UK Young Storyteller of the Year. She has been a featured artist at Latitude, Camp Bestival, Port Eliot, the London Literature Festival, Burning Man and the Secret Garden Party, at storytelling festivals Festival at the Edge and Beyond the Border and on BBC Radio.
Helen Smith is an award-winning novelist and playwright. She’s the author of Alison Wonderland, Being Light, The Miracle Inspector, and The Emily Castles Mystery Series, as well as children’s books, and plays.
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Cover Wars – The Buddha of Suburbia / £5 / Monday 21st Feb - 7.30pm - 10pm / The Queen of Hoxton 1-5 Curtain Road
::: COME DOWN AND SUPPORT JAMIE LITTLER OF SOUPA CREATIVE NETWORK! :::
Four Illustrators, one book cover, who will win?
Four illustrators representing illustration networks across London will pit their pens, pencils, brushes and glue against each other in a battle to create the best book cover for Hanif Kureishi’s ‘Buddha of Suburbia’ live on the night. Hanif Kureishi will read excerpts on the night as well join Jon Gray of Gray318 on the judging panel.
In partnership with Faber and Faber
Who’s taking part?
From Soupa: http://www.soupa.co.uk/ Jamie Littler http://www.jamielittler.co.uk/
For AMMO Magazine: http://www.ammomagazine.co.uk/ Claire Hartley http://clairelouisehartley.co.uk/
From Paperfox press: http://www.paperfoxpress.com/ Robin Boyden: www.robinboydenillustration.com
From Hidden Dingbat: http://www.hiddendingbat.co.uk/ Phil Howell and Lauren Baker
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Can you draw the internet - Vote for Soupa's Carlos!
Check out this new project by Saint which asks 'Can you draw the internet' - we think Carlos Garde-Martin can. Take part or go and vote for him here http://www.canyoudrawtheinternet.com/
Factory - Design competition: Go up a level
Deadline extended : 5.30pm | 29th October
An exciting opportunity for exposure plus a cash prize at one of London’s top audio- visual post production facilities!
Factory believe in unearthing levels of potential that may not always be immediately evident and have setup a fantastic competition to reflect this.
The brief is for any budding artist, designer or illustrator to come up with an original design to be artworked straight onto the walls of the main thoroughfare hallway. The top prize will arrest Factory's clients upon entrance to the premises and captivate their attention all the way to our first floor reception and second floor landing.
The runner-up artwork will captivate an audience heading from the impressive newly installed Dolby surround sound mixing suite to our graphics and editing studios.
There is also a cash prize: £500 cash for top prize and £300 for the runner-up.
Entries must be received by 4th September 2010.
For more about terms and conditions for entry download the pdf here.
Transport for London - Moquette competition
From graphics to roundels, tube stations to textiles, Transport for London is steeped in a history of innovative design. As part of the gradual refurbishment of London’s transport system, Transport for London and London Underground are pleased to announce an open competition to design a new seating moquette for use on the Underground system. The winning design, which will initially launch on the Piccadilly line, will then be adopted across the London Underground system. This is your chance to become part of the fabric of London design and transport history and for your work to be seen by over 3 million tube users every day.
Entrants are invited to submit up to two repeat pattern textile designs using the colours specified in the design brief remembering that your design will be used for public seating so will need to be commercially viable and take into consideration wear and tear and soiling.