Art Café and Great Cornish Seafood - "the cove" Falmouth

January 2009 has seen the highly successful launch of ‘the cove’ Art Café at award-winning Cornish restaurant "the cove" at Maenporth Beach, Falmouth.

Designed to give watercolourists the opportunity to improve their skills in one of the most inspirational areas in Cornwall (in addition to one of the best lunches Cornwall can provide), ‘the cove’ Art Cafe is the perfect place for seasoned painters and complete beginners alike.

Under the gentle guidance of professional artist Carolina Fox you will sketch the scenery of the Maen Valley and out towards Falmouth Bay progressing throughout the day to produce you own unique piece of artwork, followed by a fabulous 2-course lunch created from local produce by award winning chef Arty Williams.

The next Art Cafés are scheduled for:

Thursday 19th February

Thursday 19th March

More info can be found at http://www.thecovemaenporth.co.uk/

Rock Photography: Young Talent Showcased

During the annual Eurosonic Nooderslag festival in Groningen Holland, the Lex Van Rossen Award, to showcase young talent in rock photography, has been presented to a European music photographer.

The prize is named after Rockarchive contributor Lex Van Rossen, one of Holland's best photographers, who died in Feb 2007. The prize consists of EU 2500, but the winner also benefits in many other ways especially from much media attention in Europe.

Last year's winner was Dutch photographer Annie Hoogendoorn, this year the coveted prize was awarded by ESN director Frank Vreeke and PopView's Floor Boogaart to Belgium photographer Tom Verbruggen.

RA's Jill Furmanovsky was in the Noordelicht gallery to open the exhibition and also to give a talk about rock photography to delegates at the festival. "The standard of the PopView awards was awesome and inspiring. We had a lot of trouble picking just one winner"

As well as winner Tom Verbruggen each one of the finalists - Patrick Ryming (DK), Danny North (GB) Jordi Huisman (NL), Kalle Bjorklid (FI), Julien Bourgeouis (FR) and Charlie de Keesmaeker (BE) was well worth seeing.

Later in 2009 Rockarchive intends to show highlights at the Roundhouse gallery in London.

More at Rockarchive.com

Sustainability and Economic Sense: A Lecture at Teesside University

Here is a slightly off-topic entry in my listings today, but coincidentally as I was looking at the Travelwhere drive towards sustainability in travel brochure distribution via online page-turning brochures, I came across a lecture happening at Teesside University which tantalising appears to promise a wide review of how industries in all sectors are handling sustainability issues through design.

The free lecture is to be given at the University tonight - Monday 26 January.

Rob Holway is probably best known as the presenter and expert from Channel 4’s 2007 screening of "Dumped" - a programme which charted the experiences of a group of strangers who were given the task of surviving on a rubbish tip.

He is also a product designer and director of the award-winning company, Giraffe Innovation. The lecture will be entitled ‘Design for a One Planet Economy’ and takes place from 5.00pm to 6.30pm in the Centuria Building. Rob's lecture is aimed at a wide audience, including businesses, decision-makers and all those who are interested in finding out more about sustainability and how it makes economic sense.

This lecture is one of a series of events running at Teesside University from Monday 26 January to Thursday 29 January

More info: Teesside University

Environmentally-friendly Brochure Distribution From New Map-Based Travel Website

A new travel portal tells the travel trade they can do something visibly green to reduce brochure print and distribution costs and at the same time allow their customers to enjoy brochure-based holiday research.

In the travel industry there is a growing appetite to support any commercial applications that can reduce the number of printed holiday brochures, can stop the colossal waste of paper and can cut down radically the transport miles. Travelwhere, a newly-upgraded map-based online holiday search website with page-turning e-brochures has been developed and re-launched this month to address exactly these issues.

Travelwhere is a map based web travel directory and portal offering tour operators a green online brochure distribution service. This service is reducing their cost of sale, and has a role to play to benefit the environment.

With an industry average of around 20 brochures to convert into 1 booking, that’s a lot of paper and distribution. Travelwhere is set to save travel companies a fortune in print, postage and fulfilment costs.

The recently upgraded website http://www.travelwhere.co.uk/ brings together online brochure promotion, presentation and distribution into one performance based affiliate marketing and media service. It does this through 2 “core” online channels – BrochureMaps and BrochureRack.

BrochureMap technology finds brochures via a click on the chosen destination on a map, which then display every brochure appropriate to that city or regional destination. Travelwhere’s BrochureRack search system – which searches Travelwhere’s extensive database of digitised brochure content - finds brochures based on country, region, holiday activity and accommodation style.

The attraction to the consumer is one of a one-stop travel portal that aggregates operators’ brochures by holiday and accommodation types, destination countries and regions. This ensures that brochures are instantly available online for direct consumer viewing, page by page. From here, customers can then easily navigate onwards to the selected tour operator’s reservation facility.


BrochureRack for Holiday Brochures
BrochureMaps to find Brochures by Holiday Destination