Our second ‘blog of the week’ this year is by Graphic Design student Sarah Pease. I particularly liked this postcard design from her first assignment, with Sarah’s explanation of the design choices ‘I used the green of Gordan’s gin bottles of which they had over 20 lined up on the windowsills and Dakota handwriting...
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Bonne Année!. Here is my 2012 New Year Quiz! (I haven't pulled any crackers this year, so you'll have to indulge me...) Q: From the images included in this article, choose which is a)   Art b)   Vandalism Did you guess right?!
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Saturday saw a group of students at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield. The gallery was closed to the public and Photography Curator Andrew Conroy had joined us to talk about Si Barber's body of work 'The Big Society' and how the exhibition had been hung.
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Just before we turn off the lights and lock the door on 2011, here are the musical highlights - as chosen by members of the OCA music team. Duncan Druce:  For about a decade, each June, I’ve been spending a week (sometimes longer) in Bridgn
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Walking into the Elizabeth Blackadder exhibition at the Edinburgh National Gallery I had the feeling that I had walked into the ultimate level 1 drawing submission. For those of you who know the courses, there was a view from one space to another, vi
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Over the last few days there has been much discussion in the OCA office about a web experience commissioned by Channel 4 called Dreams of Your Life. The experience (or game if you like) was commissioned to support the release of a documentary fun
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As we all know, the web provides a great array of wonderful stuff, but it is a challenge to sift the good from the indifferent and downright bad. But now an initiative based on a philosophy of collaboration in the arts community is beginning to bear
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