electric angel /design for life

coastival essential guide

if there’s one problem with coastival it’s that there’s so much to go to! it is, of course, impossible to get to all 120+ events over the weekend, and the essential guide is designed to inform and help you choose and plan your festival weekend. for the indecisive there are two suggested ‘routes’ through the festival and fill-in-yourself weekend planner so you don’t forget where you intended to be and at what time.

the guide is available in person for £2 from scarborough TIC, library, woodend creative workspace and other festival venues or by mail via www.coastival.com. buy tickets at the same time and it’s half price on the website.

fisherman and paddling gentleman illustrations both by house of deadleg.

bradford speakout

banners to share the work done by ‘bradford speakout’ – a project working with young homeless people in bradford. we worked with artworks creative communities and bradford alliance on community care to produce this series of 7 banners using words and artwork created by the homeless working with local artists.

twitter tips for festivals

coastival is only weeks away and at a recent marketing meeting we discussed twitter and i offered a few thoughts based on our experience at electric angel and with creative coast. i claim no authority or expertise here – just what’s worked for us in different scenarios and a little creative thinking but i thought theses tips might be useful for anyone planning a festival or event. so here they are…

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monkey steps

‘monkey steps’ was a playful temporary site-specific artwork devised for the crescent gardens art trail in september 2010. it adapted an existing wind of stone steps into a game that i thought kids might enjoy doing as part of the trail. it encouraged them to follow instructions and make choices that might deliver them to the top of the steps or frustratingly send them round in circles or straight back down again.

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on some steps were cryptic messages or instructions that you hoped you wouldn’t land on – in reality, the instructions were worked out so you these steps were omitted completely but it appeared as if there was every chance of being told to wait there indefinitely or climb an impossible number of steps (it was impossible to see how many steps lay ahead from the bottom).

the work had to be removed at the end of the day so was created with water-based paint – application was hindered somewhat by the previous night’s heavy rainfall and a lot of mud… but very dirty jeans aside, it was good to have created something fun and squarely aimed at kids for the trail and was good practice for future commissions, once of which includes a kids play area.

keighley green trail

guide to the keighley green trail which took place in keighley town centre in 2010. printed on 100% recycled paper with vegetable-based inks.