Birmingham Gay Village Mural: Open Competition

Submissions are now being invited for the “Shout” lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer cultural festival in Birmingham, England in November 2009.
A concept design is sought for two murals to be located within Birmingham’s Gay Village area. The murals will be an integral part of the environmental improvements due to start soon covering Hurst Street, [...]

Marks in Time competition or “Best of a bad bunch wins”.

I do enjoy my friend Chris sending me little email reports about his working life on the Leeds University campus.
Sometimes there’s a note of frustration to his email.
There was a definite tone of “I could have done better” to the email today regarding this competition run to mark the Marks & Spencer exhibition on Leeds [...]

Concept Failure.

@crispeater emailed me this morning to say that Leeds University staff had held a photographic competition, they hold a staff festival every year- not sure they’ve got the weather for it this year. Chris said  ”I think entrants and voters alike may have confused equality with contrast and change here.  Or else just been remarkably patronising”
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