Well we certainly had a good old fashioned knees up at our belated Christmas party on Friday! It was a great night at the Hand and Heart pub with its unusual setting inside Nottingham’s caves.
The night just flew by and we’re sure most people would have been a little worse for wear on Saturday… A good time was had by all – see for yourself below!
On Saturday ‘Nottingham Contemporary’ finally opened it’s doors to the public. We’ve been watching as this unusual building has taken shape, with more than 500 local craftsmen and women involved in turning the site of caves, cellars and a derelict railway tunnel into this four-storey arts centre. Experience Nottinghamshire predicts that in the first 10 weeks over 250,000 people will visit the centre and we all plan to be amongst this number.
Love it or hate it, architects Caruso St John has certainly created an eye-catching building for Nottingham Contemporary. Martine Hamilton-Knight’s photograph below shows off the intricate lace detail on the exterior of the building.
Lace detail on Nottingham Contemporary
BBC2’s Culture Show recently featured Nottingham Contemporary, exploring the building and reviewing the exhibition. You can watch the episode using the BBC iPlayer. Current exhibitions include David Hockney and Frances Stark, for more information visit Nottingham Contemporary.
Michon Creative – Architecture, Urban & Interior Design award winners!
We’re really thrilled to announce that we won the ‘Architecture, Urban and Interior Design award’ last night at the Nottingham Creative Business Awards. It was a fantastic night and a good time was had by all. The trophy has now taken pride of place on our bookcase in studio.
As part of our submission we produced this video, which showcases The Old School Rooms.
Well done to all the winners, especially our friends at Scene Photography, who picked up the ‘Photography’ and ‘Creative Business of the Year’ awards at last night’s ceremony. Well done guys, you deserved it.
A full list of winners will shortly be published here.
We recently used a cool new guerrilla marketing technique to support an exhibition for our friends at Scene Photography. For those who haven’t come across it before, it’s referred to as ‘clean’ or ‘reverse’ graffiti. It’s 100% legal (believe it or not) and better for the environment as it doesn’t use inks or paper – just rainwater, a power hose and a stencil. This was the first time it had ever been done in Nottingham and, if it means we save trees in the process, we hope to do more.
Clean graffiti on the streets of Nottingham