21.05.20

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LGBTQ+ history is not finished yet

To mark the end of LGBTQ+ History Month, the SODA team looks forward to three historical moments that still need to happen in queer equality
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This is our Virtual Reality

How is VR is changing our reality as we know it...?
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The Value of Public Art

SODA highlights some of London’s best examples of public art for good.
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To Build a Place

What makes a place a place
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The week in creativity explored...
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Plastic Free July

Plastic Free July round up
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A creative roundup of the week
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Painting a Clearer Picture

As art galleries reopen their doors, the SODA team highlight some of the most exciting new exhibitions coming to the capital this summer.
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03.07.20

A weekly series exploring the new and practical ways that creatives are responding to COVID19...
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Movement in Colour

An exploration of how colour is used to define different movements
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19.06.20

A weekly series exploring the new and practical ways that creatives are responding to COVID19...
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Queer Artists of Colour

To celebrate Pride 2020, SODA highlights the cultural and artistic contributions of queer people of colour to our industry.
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21.05.20

A weekly series exploring the new and practical ways that creatives are responding to COVID19...
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07.05.20

A weekly series exploring the new and practical ways that creatives are responding to COVID19...
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Make Good

A weekly series exploring the new and practical ways that creatives are responding to COVID19...
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THE SPLASH

New Year, New SPLASH...dive down into our creative roundup!
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Jesper Eriksson - Transformative Materials

We sat down with the London based artist to discuss coal, fossil fuels and the nature of materials.
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KASIA WOZNIAK & LISA JAHOVIC

Photographer Kasia Wozniak and set designer Lisa Jahovic present 'Negative Mirror' ...
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PRIDE 2018

Here’s our pick of the best Pride campaigns of 2018 ...
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Photo Diary

Whilst attending Biennale Architettura 2018 Rob Fiehn documented some well known faces with his trusty Olympus OM20 ...
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'Freespace' Preview

Architectural correspondent Rob Fiehn picks his highlights to check out this summer at Biennale Architettura 2018 ...
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Gavin Coyle - man of the woods

Bobby Jewell sits down with furniture maker Gavin Coyle ...
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Christiane Spangsberg - Works In Progress

Imogen Eveson spends an evening in Sydney with Danish artist Christiane Spangsberg, as she sketches out the year ahead following three sell-out shows in 13 months ...
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Rowan Williams on Education

Designer Rowan Williams reflects on his experience of his design education ...
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14.12.17

It's our last creative news round-up of 2017 .... Enjoy!
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Adventures in Dalbergia

We paid a visit to the studio of Federico Méndez-Castro, a fine dust maker located on Granville Island, Vancouver ...
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The extraordinary, everyday ...
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30.11.17

'Tis the season to be jolly (almost!). Before the holiday season sweeps you off your feet take five minutes to have a look our latest round-up of creative news. Enjoy!
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The Goldloxe Effect

Creating in the shadows ...
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The Enduring Allure Of Indigo

Jenny Balfour Paul shares what makes the power and draw of natural indigo so enduring and what we can learn from its rich and magical history ...
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10.11.17

An audio visual explosion this week, plus an array of very very interesting objects from Athens ... Enjoy!
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TAKESHI MIYAKAWA

We chat to the NYC based designer about his practice, wax chandeliers & chairs having conversations ...
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Empty spaces to extraordinary experiences

Museum and interior design practice Casson Mann talk about how they create world-class innovative and engaging experiences.
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20.10.17

Ease into the start of the weekend with another round-up of creative news ...

SODA x SODA

That name sounds familiar! Rob Fiehn sits down with architectural studio SODA to find out about their Soho beginnings and how they're searching out interesting new projects.
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21.05.20

Ikea Russia and Instinct: Blanket fort instructions

Ikea’s homemade fort instructions

No brand epitomises the idea of home better than Ikea. In the age of coronavirus, however, the home has quickly transformed. Once offering respite and the chance to switch off, the home is now our personal space and workplace in one. There is an upside: many parents now have more time to interact with their children throughout the working day. To re-capture some of the family magic associated with the home, Ikea have released instructions on how to build homemade forts for children. Using no more than pillows, pegs, books, fairy lights and a big blanket, children are now able to create an exciting range of play spots, including a castle and a cave. In the style of their trademark minimalist instructions manual, Ikea have designed a new way to keep children inspired during these strange and uncertain times.

BBC Asian Network

BBC Asian Network’s resources

BBC Asian Network has created a series of videos in 7 South Asian languages; Sylheti, Punjabi, Gujarati, Hindi, Bengali, Sylheti and Urdu in an attempt to tackle the spread of fake news around Coronavirus. The videos, produced by video journalist Nalini Sivathasan, includes a number of presenters of South Asian descent including Reeta Chakrabarti, Mishal Husain and Sima Kotecha.

We know that coronavirus is affecting BAME communities disproportionately to the rest of society and the below video, released yesterday by the BBC, and spoken in a mixture of the 7 languages, sets out the resources available in South Asian languages. This includes videos created with British Asian doctors explaining what COVID-19 is, how the virus spreads and information on what people can do to protect themselves covering topics such as how to stay healthy in Ramadan under lockdown.

Photo: Alex Klug/courtesy Window Flicks

Forget the multiplex, Window flicks is bringing cinema to the housing complex

German Architect Olaf Karkhoff has launched ‘Window Flicks’, a service that he hopes will replicate the communal experience of the cinema in a time when it may never truly return as we once knew it. The project, based in Berlin, involves placing projectors within large housing complexes and using the architecture itself as the screen, allowing people to view the selected movie from their own apartments/buildings but sharing the same screen, something distinctly lacking with services such as Netflix Party. Anyone can apply for free to have the equipment installed within their community, with karkhoff doing all the leg work of setup as well as supplying independently made popcorn for any who sign up. With seven films on the roster, including Oscar winner ‘The Artist’, Karkhoff looks to expand the project in the hopes of driving donations that will help the German film industry, and has already had enquiries from other cities around Europe. “I don’t have any interest in money, and so I’m not really thinking about doing a business out of it,” Karkhoff says. “It’s a gift for our city.”

The Letter P: Group Typeface

Say hello to Group, an eclectic new charity typeface

Put 37 designers, illustrators and lettering artists into a zoom call and what do you get?.... Group is a new eclectic typeface, a collaborative effort between designers from across the globe which not only looks fantastically wild but will also go some way to raise funds for the WHO during the coronavirus crisis. The projects was dreamt up by graphic designer Raissa Pardini, herself known for pushing the boundaries of typefaces and includes a wide range of contributors including Aaron Lowell Denton, Sophy Hollington, Gabriel Alcala, Bárbara Malagoli and Fisk Projects. The aim was to avoid “making a font inspired by a virus and just highlight the fact that we were working all together – that’s why it’s called Group”. As if the typeface wasn’t unique enough there are two versions of every letter of the alphabet, adding even further room for eclectism. Download it now and try it out today!

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