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meet the team behind this issue of ‘elsewhere’.

photography in birmingham.

birmingham city university student illustrationinterview.

bullring special.

what you didn’t know about birmingham.

four page issue on illustrator and typographer‘pomme chan’.

victoria square.

best of architecture in birmingham.

frankfurt christmas market.

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TEAM ELSEWHEREINTRODUCING

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My name is Rebekah, an illustrator living in Birmingham. Since moving to Birmingham City Centre a month ago, it took time to get used to the big differencecompared to a little town in South Wales. Everything is so big, the architecture here is amazing, I love the bullring, even though I did get lost in there numerous times in my first week. Being an illustrator, this is the role that I have lead in the magazine, creating illustrations, however I relate to the graphic design side of everything from creating page layouts, along with the photography side of the magazine too. Fashion, culture and art interests me alot around Birmingham. So far, I have enjoyed living in Birmingham, each day inspires me from what it has to offer.

My name is Ella, a graphic designer living in Birmingham. My role in the magazine is to produce the layouts and place everything togeth-er. I am also documenting Birmingham through photographs.Since moving to Birmingham a month ago, I am slowly getting to know the area and what it has to offer. My first impression of Birmingham was the busyness and the constant noise and traffic. The city looks really pretty at night, especially from my high view living in a flat on the 16th floor. I hope our magazine will inform you more about parts of Birmingham that interest us and hopefully interest you too. We have focused on the culture of Birming-ham and I mostly interested in the architecture, exhibitions and art within the city.

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Name: Rebekah Smith

Age: 19

Studying: Visual Communication

Illustration, BCU (1st Year)

Who and what inspires you?

Everyday life has an impact on what

inspires me. Patterns are a big form

that influences me, such as swirls, dots,

leaves, shells and flowers. Emotions are

involved within my work quite frequently

too. My favourite, most inspiring illustrators

are ‘Pomme Chan’, ‘Deanne Cheuk’ and

‘Hannah Davies’.

Postcards portraying

emotion

How important is drawing

in today’s design world?

I think artistic skills are

absolutely essential to do the best

possible design, and to do it in a

collaboration way where you can share your

ideas initially with a little sketch, and then

refine it, and then go on the computer and work

through it. You need to be able to render your ideas

through drawing,

‘‘artistic skillsare absolutelyessentialin this design world..

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‘‘ ‘‘What does this illustration portray?

There is a story behind this illustration

which nobody would understand unless they

read this. If you look closely, you should be

able to tell that the character is in a dancing

pose.You can see the imagery of movement where the

dress is being swayed from side to side.

Peacock feathers inspired me whilst creating this

piece of work. They related to the theme with the

various patterns and forms held within the artwork.

Therefore, I stuck to a blue, green and yellow theme

to keep the colours simplistic

, so the audience could

layered image

showing emotions

Poster illustration

titled ‘Dance’

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WHAT DOES THE BULLRING MEAN TO YOU...

“So many shops to choose from it’s hard to know where to start”

“My favourite place to have a nice lunch in the Bullring is EAT

“Visting Selfridges is a must when at the Bullring”

as it gives us a good break from shopping and you can always rely on their salads”

The most famous place in Birmingham is the iconic phenomenon architectural modern building. The bulding is inspired by a Paco Rabanne sequin dress which has sliver cir-cular balls, like the Bullring. This building is recognised all round the world. Inside the disc casing is Selfridges which is the home of fashion, culinary and homeware.

The Bullring is a shopping centre which is located in the centre of Birmingham’s City Centre and has easy transport links to it.There are over 160 shops to choose from in the bullring so its sure to have what you are lookingfor. There are many resturants and eateries in the bullring to choose from.

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Birmingham has 6 million trees

The city has the most parks in Europe

14 gold medals from the Chelsea Flower Show have been won to people who live in Birmingham

The city's busiest building is the Central Library and is the largest public library in Europe and lends out 8 million books each year.

Birmingham’s population is approximately 1 million people; 6 million people live within 50 miles of the City.

3 universities and over 450 schools are in the City.

Many rock bands have formed in Birmingham like; Ocean Colour Scene, Duran Duran, ELO, Dodgy, UB40 and Black Sabbath.

Birmingham is officially the UK’s cleanest large city. Council street cleaners sweep 1,300 miles of road and empty 4,000 litter bins.

There are 30 other places called Birmingham around the world including one crater on the moon called Birmingham

The first Odeon cinema opened in Birmingham in Perry Barr in 1930

John Wyatt who is from the area invented a machine for spinning wool called ‘the spinning jenny’

Henry Clay who is from the area invented a new form of papier mache using sheets of paper in 1772

Joseph Sampson Gamgee who was around from 1828 to 1880. He is a doctor in Birmingham and invented the surgi-cal dressing known as cotton wool

Joseph Priestley who was a Birmingham minister in 1780-91 discovered oxygen.

John Wright in 1840 invented electro-plating in Birmingham.

State education was created in Birmingham in the 1850's

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Chan

Carefully and sensitively constructed, each illustration is bursting at the seams with

thoughtful and delicate detail. “

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Chan She now cur-rently lives and works in London. Her designs are in-credibly detailed, full of inspiration and ex-tremely appealing to the audience. Chan tends to uses mini-mun colour within her illustrations so that the main fo-cus is the detail.The majority of her designs are cre-ated using ink, pen and watercolours. Nature plays a big part within her art-work where she uses forms of flow-ers , leaves, and many organic forms to create her unusual, unique, creative designs.

Pomme Chan, an il-lustrator and typog-rapher born and educated in Bang-kok. She moved to England to study Graphic Design at the London College of Communication. Over the past five years, her draw-ings have featured in ‘Grafik, Telegraph, and she has worked on ad campaigns for the likes of Sony, Volkswagen, Micro-soft and topshop. Nature, fashion, ar-chitecture and fe-male form play a big part in her works.

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Current Exhibition atBirmingham Museum &

Art Gallery

Curator of Prints and Drawings at BM&AG for nearly 30 years

On until the 4th March 2012

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A Life in Prints: The Tessa Sidey Bequest

A Life in Prints: The Tessa Sidey Bequest

A Life in Prints: The Tessa Sidey Bequest

A Life in Prints: The Tessa Sidey Bequest

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Victoria Square is a pedestrianised public square in Birmingham.

The Town Hall and Council House are there and Chamberlain Square is opposite making it a busy place.

Some people regard the square to be the centre of Birmingham and it is the point where local road sign distances are measured.

St. Philip's Cathedral is close to the square as is the Bull Ring and Brindley-place. Colmore Row, New Street and Paradise Street all meet there which are three major roads in Birmingham.

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The square used to be known as Council House Square and was renamed in January 1901 to honour Queen Victoria and a statue of her was put up.It also used to have a tramway running through it.

Part of the square used to have a Christ Church which was built in 1805 - 1813 but the church was demolished in 1899.

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The main event that happens in Victoria square each year is the Frankfurt Christmas Market and Craft Fair. Victoria Square is the main part of the market which extends into New Street.

Birmingham’s ‘Big Screen’ is currently in the square af-ter it was removed from Chamberlain Square and it has not been used due to a disagreement over the planning process for it.

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Birmingham has existed as a settlement for over 1,000 years and today it is a city this has massive influences on the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries with little surviving from its early history.

Many well-known architects come from Birmingham. Some of them being Yeoville Thomason, J. A. Chatwin and Martin & Chamberlain.

As it has expanded over time it has gained a variety of architectural styles.

Buildings of most modern architectural styles in the UK are located in Birmingham.

Recently Birmingham was one of the first cities to exhibit the ‘blobitecture’ style with the construction of the Selfridges store at the Bullring Shopping Centre which is now a famous landmark in the city.

Birmingham grew rapidly as a result of the Industrial Revolution starting in the 18th century. There are very few buildings remaining in Birmingham prior to this.

In April 2006 there were 1,946 documented listed buildings in Birmingham, thirteen scheduled ancient monuments and 27 conservation areas.

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