And so, as the year draws to a close, the book what I wrote gradually drags itself off the screen onto the printed page. Meanwhile, efforts emerge in the UK to create a ‘town of culture’ award to further regeneration, in part based on the ‘800 new jobs’ apparently created in Hull in 2017. Persistent…
Brand Adidas co-opts brand Art Basel; Brand Art Basel returns fire: [Adidas] has been unjustly enriched through its unauthorized infringement of the ART BASEL mark [. ART BASEL is] suffering irreparable and indivisible injury and harm as a result of [Adidas’] unauthorized and wrongful use of the ART BASEL mark More at The Fashion Law.
How can we reverse the fortune of the abandoned industrial centre? Wayne Hemingway on the value of creativity: To some it might seem misguided to use creativity as a tool for social change. But when we really think hard about the history and current challenges of these post-industrial places, it’s absolutely the right approach. Each [Creative…
In a hurry for authentic worn denim? Lasers to the rescue.
Like an oiled boomerang, Richard Florida returns: “I got wrong that the creative class could magically restore our cities, become a new middle class like my father’s, and we were going to live happily forever after,” he said. “I could not have anticipated among all this urban growth and revival that there was a dark…
In 2002, Chin-Tao Wu wrote, Since 1990, the regular rehanging of the Tate Gallery collection […] has been sponsored by BP. For around £150,000 a year, a sum which can buy only two-and-a-half minutes’ commercial advertising on prime-time television in 1990, the BP logo appears all year round on the Tate’s large banners advertising the…
How do contemporary technologies shape our understanding of ourselves? By the 1500s, automata powered by springs and gears had been devised, eventually inspiring leading thinkers such as René Descartes to assert that humans are complex machines. In the 1600s, the British philosopher Thomas Hobbes suggested that thinking arose from small mechanical motions in the brain.…
Opaque endorsements and intellectual property theft? With online friends like these… …or rather ‘How YouTubers really make their millions’ at the New Statesman.
It’s January, so it must be time for the annual celebration of the value of the UK’s creative industries. The UK’s creative industries are now worth a record £84.1 billion to the UK economy, figures published today reveal. British films, music, video games, crafts and publishing are taking a lead role in driving the UK’s…
Every time Disney’s copyright on Mickey Mouse is about to expire, the law magically changes. Mickey’s expiration date has been nudged forward from 1984 to 2003 to 2023 – a copyright term of 95 years. Will copyright last for over a century by the time Mickey’s next deadline arrives? More at Priceonomics.