Creative Dundee

Talent Show update – Hannah Livingston

A Talent Show star scoops top prize at New Designers.

Zeitgeist Website goes live

The ‘idiosyncratic alternative black lager’ with artwork by Duncan of Jordanstone student, Heather Brennan has launched its website. Check out Heather’s ultra cool illustration on the Zeitgeist website here.

Talent Show - Ruby Loves Red

An additional Talent Show this week showcases the talents of Dundee based Ruby Loves Red (AKA Sandra Cassidy).

Talent Show – Lindsey Gardiner

 

This week a sneak peek into the world of Dundee illustrator and textile designer, Lindsey Gardiner.

New Dundee.com

I was just about to jump on my flight out of the country for a well earned summer break when I noticed on Twitter that Dundee.com has had a facelift to tie it into the new city identity. Discuss.

Danny Wallace: Friends Like These

Author, TV personality and all round good guy (I'd imagine) Danny Wallace returns to his birthtown (yes he was born in Dundee) on the 13th July to talk about his new book 'Friends Like These'.

Bye, Bye Old RSA... Hello New Vision!

There are just a few days left to catch the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) Annual Open Exhibition, which has been exhibited in the rather cosy but spacious surroundings of the recently rejuvenated Vision building on Dundee's waterfront. The show which has been going for 112 years and normally resides at the RSA, opened alongside DoJ's Degree Show and has therefore been a tad overshadowed here on CD.

Talent Show - Ashleigh Watson

This weeks Talent show, and the first I have written, is recent graduate of DoJ Ashleigh Watson. Ashleigh is an illustrator and printmaker who has a very interesting illustrative method...

One City Many Discoveries...

I got a tip off this morning that the new Dundee logo, the one that replaces the City of Discovery logo, is in the wild. 

SI Camp Idea Results etc...

This is a post I probably should have made a week earlier but for one reason or another it has slipped a bit. Anyway, The Social Innovation Camp or SI Camp has announced the results of their Scottish search for new ideas and two of the ideas from the Dundee session made it into the final six.