New Olympic Archive for UEL

We have just been successful in securing £100K from the Joint Information Systems Committee for a one-year project to create a digital Olympics Archive. Our archive will be called East London Lives – a unique digital archive of ‘London 2012’. It will record and reflect on the process of social change in East London arising from hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games, focusing on two of the key Olympic promises - social regeneration and health and wellbeing.
It is a joint bid between three parts of our university - the London East Research Institute (Professor Gavin Poynter and Dr Iain Macrury), the Institute of Health and Human Development (Professor Adrian Renton) and Library and Learning Services. Our partner is the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.

Fashionfringe

http://www.fashionfringe.co.uk/

WHAT IS FASHION FRINGE?2008 is the fifth year of Fashion Fringe, the hottest thing to hit British fashion in the last 20 years. Created in 2004 by IMG global sports, entertainment and media company, under the creative direction of Colin McDowell MBE, the challenge is to re-invigorate the fashion industry in this country. Fashion Fringe is looking for cutting edge, iconoclastic talent in design and creativity to continue the tradition Britain has long been famous for.

Burdastyle - Open source sewing blog

http://www.burdastyle.com/blog/show/638

Nice resource for fashion students

Stuart Hall Library - INIVA

http://www.iniva.org/library

I visited the Stuart Hall Library yesterday and was very impressed. I will definitely be recommending it to our students.

And there is a fantastic exhibit on in their gallery too. See above image.

Embroidering the truth: terrorism targeted as artists take up tapestry

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/10/art

This exhibition sounds intriguing!

Fashion V Sport at the V & A, 5th August to 4th January

This exhibition explores the creative connections between the two worlds of fashion and sport. Recent developments have seen an increasing number of collaborations and hybrids, from fashion designers producing collections with sportswear brands to sports personalities heading fashion campaigns or even designing their own collections. Fashion V Sport will reveal the complexities and tensions between the two industries.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/fashion-v-sport/exhibition.php

Tate Library

I have been contacted by the Tate Library because they would really their facilities to be used more by students. I will be mentioning this in my inductions. They are part of SCONUL Access so our students can actually borrow from them.

http://www.tate.org.uk/research/researchservices/library/

Carfts Council Research Library

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/about-us/press-room/view/2008/re-opening-of-the-crafts-council

Inspirational resource for those interested in Contemporary Craft