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Space Made Live - the documentary
Written by Lex Lamb   
Tuesday, 24 August 2010 08:16

It seems like an eternity ago (though in fact merely at the start of this crazy summer), but space made live has been in mind again after seeing the compilation preview of Sean LUGS' forthcoming documentary. Naturally, we'll keep you informed as to release dates...

 
Photo du Jour 24
Written by Lex Lamb   
Monday, 23 August 2010 00:00

 
At The Fringe
Written by Sophie Stubbs   
Monday, 09 August 2010 10:32

In case you missed out, here are some shots from 'small-media-large at the Fringe'.





 
Photo du Jour 23
Written by Lex Lamb   
Friday, 30 July 2010 00:00

 
small-media-large at the Fringe (and some dot-matrix printers)
Written by Lex Lamb   
Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:01

...an intriguing snap taken in the thick of preparations for small-media-large at the the Fringe, our lovely little restrospective. Please drop by and say hello if you're in town for the world's biggest arts festival!

 

All the details here!

 

 

 
What we happen to be thinking right now
Written by Lex Lamb   
Thursday, 29 July 2010 16:57

Dutch banknotes (pre-euro) were probably the coolest in the world.

 

 
Photo du Jour 22
Written by Lex Lamb   
Thursday, 22 July 2010 00:00

 
Summer Colour
Written by Lex Lamb   
Sunday, 04 July 2010 00:00

Two nice little projects of ours that you may have bumped into around Glasgow recently: various materials for the excellent 'Folding Clouds and Hoovering Hills' event at Tramway for Giant, and a funky identity for the biggest arts festival North Glasgow has ever seen - Festival of the Imagination for Toonspeak/NGARN.

Totally unrelated apart from that they each boast rather tasty seasonal colour pallettes, and that we rather like them both!

 
Photo du Jour 22
Written by Lex Lamb   
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 00:00

 
small-media-large at the Fringe
Written by Lex Lamb   
Wednesday, 16 June 2010 09:44

small-media-large are now preparing to showcase their own work during the first week of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, within the historic Gladstone's Land gallery on the Royal Mile. The exhibition promises to be a stimulating and unconventional tribute to the breadth and uniqueness of their recent creative activities - both for clients and themselves.

small-media-large at the Fringe will run from 3-8 August with a preview on the 2nd.

 
space made live
Written by Lex Lamb   
Monday, 14 June 2010 00:00

Over the weekend of June 12-13 we invited visual, conceptual and contemporary artists to exploit the interior of The Arthouse, our architecturally unique premises, as part of Glasgow's West End Festival.

The event was a huge success, with around 300 guests attending the focus Saturday evening event to enjoy the work on show as well as music, stand-up, spoken word and live life drawing!

We would like to extend a huge 'thanks' to everyone who contributed, participated, helped out and attended over the whole weekend.

A gallery of images from the weekend is being compiled here. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 's documentary of the event will be released some time around late August/early September

The space made live facebook page will remain active here and Twitter searches for #spacemadelive will yield further background information.

 
Photo du Jour 21
Written by Lex Lamb   
Sunday, 06 June 2010 00:00

 
Random observations from the big black desk
Written by Lex Lamb   
Friday, 14 May 2010 10:54

Caman...and who's that pictured? You will find out in a wee while, once the project emerges into the real world.

Can't stop toying with a fabric motorcycle route-map we designed for Strathclyde Police; never printed on microfibre before, and it's a lovely substrate that softens the inks slightly.


Looking forward to seeing our latest stuff for Giant/Tramway in print.... more news once we've seen it!

An interesting week which saw the announcement of the initial roster of participating artists for space made live; their write-ups are arriving as I type (just received that of BAFTA nominee Douglas King) and we're meeting a real diversity of fascinatingly creative individuals via the process.

Talking of artists: been watching our chums at Agents of Change on a live feed as they create a massive piece of work at Future Everything, Manchester - catch it while you can.

A nice chat with the crew at Ditto yesterday, we'll be contributing to their coffee table book reviewing last year's shennanigans.

Today, mainly sorting through hundreds of nice oceanographic images for our corals project (which looks like featuring a seamless integration with Google Ocean tours - nice one, and can't wait to see that all fall into place).

The weekend looms, in a pleasant manner!

 
Photo du Jour 20
Written by Lex Lamb   
Wednesday, 12 May 2010 00:00

 
a massive thank you!
Written by Sophie Stubbs   
Saturday, 08 May 2010 10:59

We have been seriously overwhelmed by the submissions we've received for space made live - overwhelmed by their numbers, but also by their standard and overall professionalism. Thanks so much to everyone who took the time and effort to submit such interesting ideas. We will be reviewing all the submissions in the next few days and will be in touch during next week to inform you whether or not we are able to include your work in the show (inevitably we cannot exhibit everyone's work due to space constraints and practicalities).

You've done your hard work - now it's up to us, and we're confronted by some incredibly difficult decisions.
 

 
Corporate Cushions
Written by Sophie Stubbs   
Friday, 16 April 2010 15:25

The lovely Eleanor Young of Fun Makes Good dropped off these fab tailor made cushions this morning. In true SML style with our corporate colours they add a bit of style to our already plushly furnished office. Nice!

 
Photo du Jour 19
Written by Lex Lamb   
Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:00

Pavement, Houldsworth Street

 
Photo du Jour 18
Written by Lex Lamb   
Monday, 12 April 2010 00:00

Thomas on blaes pitch

 
In Deep
Written by Lex Lamb   
Friday, 02 April 2010 00:00

Copyright SW RossThe daffodils are everywhere, the sun is shining, the light evenings are beginning, and we have just won the contract to carry out an interactive redesign of the world's primary web resource for corals! So here's a lovely image of some corals. A grand end to an intense week of storyboarding, Flash and scripting...

 
Photo du Jour 17
Written by Lex Lamb   
Friday, 02 April 2010 00:00

Anderston skyscape

 
Photo du Jour 16
Written by Lex Lamb   
Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:00

Pembroke St, Anderston

 
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Building of the Fortnight

Northpark House (formerly BBC Scotland, formerly Queen Margaret College)

JT Rochead 1871

A renaissance palace worthy of its architect's reputation in Glasgow's West End (Rochead having been responsible for some of the most imposing terraces that line the grand boulevard of Great Western Road), Northpark House represents a grand yet well-known sight to anyone familiar with Queen Margaret Drive and has survived a Doctor Who-like quantity of impressive incarnations.

From its original role as private house (to the lavishness of which its galleried-double height entrance hall still testifies) the house progressed to become the home of Queen Margaret College, a groundbreaking venture with the then-novel aim of providing education for women. A Medical Building (by John Keppie) was subsequently added to the building's rear, and the involvement of Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the design of that structure has - predictably - become the primary focus of popular attention on the entire site in latter years.

In the 1920s the house narrowly escaped being demolished to make way for Queen Margaret Drive to access the new Queen Margaret Bridge; a toss-up between this loss or the removal of the Kibble Palace was avoided by plotting the road along a kink between both structures.

The most renowned phase of the building's life was as BBC Scotland's Broadcasting House. A series of developments in the 1930s and 1970s involved the building-over of the remaining gardens, the enclosure of the Medical Building and (in 1970) the closure of access to the nearby - and generally forgotten - bridge spanning the Kelvin. The long occupancy of the BBC, which saw the coming and going of strings of celebs and the notorious seizure of videotape by Strathclyde Police, finally ended in 2007 with a move to the award-winning Pacific Quay building.

Northpark House now stands unused and isolated with the Queen Margaret College Medical Building in the vast, cleared former BBC site. An attempt to present the building's potential as a 'boutique hotel' was set in train just on the cusp of the financial crisis, and the company intending to develop the remaining part of the site is now in administration. The view from Hamilton Drive is dismal, and no positive future for this building or the vast, fenced-off,  yet previously quasi-publicly-owned prime West End site that surrounds it seems likely.