NOISE Lab – Manchester’s Audacious Pop Up Store For Creative City Centre Urbanites

 T-shirt: Mark Wigan creation on sale at NOISE Lab, Manchester

T-shirt: Mark Wigan creation on sale at NOISE Lab

I really enjoyed last Thursday’s launch of the NOISE Lab, a ‘guerilla arts pop up store’ nestled opposite the Orange Shop and next to Boots the Chemists right on the Great Manchester High Street aka Market Street.

Situated in the former Shelly’s footwear outlet, next to Schuh and in prime shopping centre real estate, this incredibly bold 6 month long ‘experiment’ is born out of the national NOISEFestival.com project, an online community where young creatives in film, music, visual arts and many other creative disciplines develop and showcase their (first, in many cases) online portfolio.

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Jotta, online community for artists and creatives – Social Media for the arts?

Jotta, online community for artists and creatives - Social Media for the arts?Yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting directors from Jotta.com, an online and offline community for practising artists across creative disciplines including design, illustration, art, music and film at the offices of the Manchester Digital Development Agency.

The Jotta team have created a lush, visually appealing online community site focussed on offering advice, education, networking events and commercial opportunities to new and emerging artists in a host of creative disciplines.

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A Day in The Life of A Digital Native – NOISEfestival

 NOISEfestival launch featuring Alistair Darling and Badly Drawn Boy

In between covering social media usage amongst FTSE 100 companies, I try and post blog articles sharing interesting industry events I attend.

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