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Roe, Monika
After graduating with a degree in graphic design, Monika Roe worked as an art director and creative director for ad agencies in Los Angeles and Indianapolis. Now a full-time illustrator, some of Monika's clients include: Microsoft, Toyota, Mattel, Diet Coke, Pantene, Coty, Conde Nast Publications, Penguin Group, Doubleday, Random House, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Time Inc., The Wall Street Journal, and Hallmark. Her work has been featured in STEP inside design magazine and Adweek. Monika's studio is located in the beautiful wine country of California's central coast, where she lives with her two pugs, Ladybug and Bumblebee. She likes Danish modern furniture, browsing estate sales and drinks way too much coffee.
Hanson, Sarah
Sarah's work is combination of traditional handmade and digital collage. Inspired by her travels and an avid collector of random ephemera, she finds and stores interesting bits of old paper, maps, photographs and various objects, which have all become strong elements in her work. For every new project she has a unique sift through the random piles, sketchbooks and pads that have accumulated around her studio selecting suitable elements as she goes. Previous clients include GQ, The Times, British Airways, Penguin, BBC Worldwide Ltd, Publicis, More Magazine, Waitrose, Caspian Publishing, Radio Times, Age Concern, Harper Collins, Renault, Delicious Magazine and The AOI.
Tharp, Pepper
Pepper Tharp | illustrator + Creative Director Hello, My work, aptly coined 'sophisticated fun' and 'nuevo french' is refined, elegant, informed with a touch of wit. Whether through the eyes of a sanguine shaggy dog or a willowy fashion-femme on a Mediterranean holiday I have a beguiling ability to capture life's minutia to tell stories that captivate. I am adept in understanding my client's goals and deliver work that ensures their brand is well-placed and memorable in the ever evolving and competitive global market. I have delivered many successful projects and campaigns for notable clients such as, American Express, Artful Living Magazine, Harper Collins, St. Martin's Press, Ritz Carlton Weddings, Macy's, Nestle, Sur la Table, Target, Vera Wang, William Sonoma,The Container Store and most recently 70 illustrations for Carson Kressley's new book (to be published this year). I have also discovered a fun niche in creating visuals for of social media and web design. With a true collaborative spirit, I love being part of a dream-team, but I'm equally comfortable acting as lead creative director or simply...working solo.I adhere closely to G.A.G. Handbook for pricing and ethical standards in my business acumen. With a drive to explore, I invite my clients to join me in every step of creative process so that they are fully informed and have input along the way. My work zone is a full capacity Mac Studio fueled by Nespresso and Adobe Creative Suites in a garden-view studio in my 1883 historic cottage in Linden Hills. Yet, in a moment's notice I can jump into your studio if in-house help is needed! I look forward to learning about your next project! Truly, Pepper Tharp www.peppertharp.com
Chivers, Sam
For several years I lead a double life. During the day I worked for a Design/Illustration studio producing work in a wide variety of styles for many different clients. Whilst in my spare time I was exploring more creative preoccupations though self-directed projects, often just enjoying a bit of creative freedom away from the pressures of the commercial world and being told what to do all the time.
Bringing together my love of drawing and geeking out on the computer, these quite often ended up as screen prints. Screen print is a process I've grown to love because of the restraints it imposes, I loved trying to create a sense of depth with just three or four layers. Often mistakes would be surprisingly pleasing.
After a while of incubation this work began attracting commercial clients (as I hoped it would) and eventually I made the leap to doing it full time.
My work naturally veers towards that blurry border point between science and nature. Recently I've become aware of how much I'm influenced by the countryside in which I live, and my tendency to fictionalise it through drawing.
My ambitions with my work are to keep making it better and continue to evolve as an artist. Presently my output mutated into a two pronged beast; I make these airbrushed sci-fi landscapes and then more hand drawn limited palette pieces – my aim is to carry on joining the dots in between these two styles somehow unifying them more.
Based in Barcelona, Spain, Pietari Posti creates contemporary scenes with unique personalities for magazines, advertising, product, publishing, posters and newspapers. Pietari's work has been featured in the 3x3 Professional Illustration Annual, PRINT Magazine European Design Annual and American Illustration 27. - Previous clients include: The New York Times, New York Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Time Out, Nokia, American Airlines, British Airways, Runner´s World, Best Life, Wired, Dwell, Portobello Books, Business Week, Bloomberg Market and Paste Magazine.
Armstrong, Gail
Gail Armstrong has been creating paper sculptures for over 20 years and her enthusiasm for the medium hasn't waned one snip. She still wants every image she creates to be better than the last, and this approach has led to plenty of awards, including a Cannes Gold Lion for her Kleenex campaign. She finds inspiration in contemporary art and, not surprisingly, the huge Paperchase outlet on Tottenham Court Road in London.
Gail did her foundation course at Sheffield Polytechnic before gaining both a BA and Post Graduate Diploma in Graphic Design and Illustration at Glasgow School of Art.
Though finally rendered in pieces of paper that have been carefully cut and glued together, each image Gail creates begins as a series of drawings. As she explores the composition and various concepts, she focuses on creating something that has both style and substance to it. The result is usually a photograph of her artwork, which viewers love to see more than once, poring over the textures, colours and patterns in the final construction.
Shortlisted in AOI Illustration Award 2014 - Research and Knowledge category for "Life Cycle of a Butterfly"
Asiago International Award for Philatelic Art 2012 - winner for "Land" stamp in set of 3 for United Nations conference on sustainable development in Rio
Cannes Gold Lion 2010 – Billboards Cannes Bronze Lion 2010 – Illustration Cannes Bronze Lion 2010 - Press The Big Won 2010 – 1st in Press Campaigns Creative Circle Awards 2011 Silver in Illustration (Craft Print) Creative Circle Awards 2011 Bronze in Magazine Campaign (Press) Creative Match Flair Award for Illustration 2011 Daler Rowney Award for Outstanding Paper Sculpture 1997
Client List Kleenex United Nations stamp Nestle Sogo, Hong Kong Wells Fargo Bank Macy's IRS Guersey stamps MidFirst Bank Illinois Lottery Dole SouthWest Airlines CITGO Which? Minivelle PALL Microsoft Virgin Travel Anchor Rotary
Lovell, Andy
Andy's work as an illustrator and printmaker is informed by making drawings and paintings from life which are then revisited through the medium of print. The original drawings are not an end in themselves but rather aim to catch the essence of a place in a form that can be translated to print back in the studio. He is drawn to the immediacy that the screen-print and monotype processes both allow and encourage and which result in a gestural and often graphic interpretation of these initial sketches and paintings done on location that capture a real sense of mood and place.
Andy's printmaking is represented through galleries across the UK whist, as an illustrator he has worked on a wide range of commercial commissions, across the publishing, editorial, advertising and design sectors.
Clients include American Express, ABTA, Natwest bank, Singapore Airlines, Guardian Media Group, Bowmore Whisky, Hoopers, British Gas, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Saturday Times, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, Conde Naste, Time Inc., You Magazine, The Evening Standard, Time Out Magazine, IPC Media, National Magazines, Random House, Harper Collins, Faber & Faber, Friends of the Earth, Decca, EMI Sinead O'Connor & Shane McGowan - 'Haunted' Video Backdrop.
Work held in Collections 2009 PALACE OF WESTMINSTER COLLECTION, London
Work in Open Submission shows 2015 RWA Open Exhibition Bristol 2013 RWA Open Exhibition Bristol 2009 Royal Society of Marine Artists Mall Galleries London 2009 ORIGINALS 09 Mall Galleries London 2008 NEAC SHOW Mall Galleries London 2008 RBSA Print Prize exhibition 2008 Summer Exhibition Royal Academy London
One Man Shows 2013 One man show, Stroud 2009 One man show Castor & Pollux, Brighton 2009 One man show, Jersey Arts Centre 2007 'Andy Lovell Prints' 1 man print show London 2005 'Shifting Views'1 man print show London
Group Shows and Exhibitions 2015 'As I walked out one Summer' -Laurie Lee Centenary show Sub Rooms Stroud 2013 Organiser of & participant in IMPRESS'13 National Printmaking Exhibition Stroud 2013 Printmaking show, Assembly House,Norwich 2013 Joint show, The Gallery, Cromer, Norfolk 2009 Lichfield Arts Festival. Joint show with Angie Lewin and Alistair Tucker 2009 Organiser of & participant in IMPRESS'09 National Printmaking Exhibition Stroud
McKenna, Josh
Born in a provincial British seaside town Josh McKenna is now based in London. Josh's work is minimally designed but full of voluptuously, curved characters, his work focuses less on the details and more on asymmetric shapes in pleasing compositions using a soft west coast inspired palette. Tan lines and bodacious booties are rife in his portfolio but this fun, cheeky approach gives Josh's stylised worlds personality.
McKenna's creative process involves sketching ideas on iPad and Pencil, chopping and changing compositions and then moving to a computer to create vector artwork, adding textures and applying a carefully considered colour palette.
Josh McKenna graduated Falmouth University in 2014 and now works in editorial, advertising, shop windows and emojis on phones.
Diaz, Maine
Born in La Plata, Argentina, Maine Diaz, grew up drawing and painting. She was often seen drawing with her pencils or crayons in deep concentration. Cartoons captured her imagination early on and realized immediately that she wants to be an animator when she grows up. Her mother, a biochemist and grandfather were truly flabbergasted upon hearing her declaration. At the age of 16 she took a workshop and start animating, working in films like Patoruzito, El Arca (Patagonik, Argentina), Gizaku and Nocturna (Filmax, Spain). Simultaneously, she enrolled in Audiovisual Communication at Universidad DeLa Plata (UNLP). Soon after, she also started illustrating for children's story books and educational books. In 2002 with Crimsomnia Studio, she was a finalist at Ford's "Saldras mas" publicity contest, with "Habitos noctunos" short. In 2005 she won first prize for the character design category of Bizpills (Hi Impatc Learning Experiences), España.
Currently, Maine lives in a tiny green house where she spends time with her two cats, Chula and Lola. She loves tending her garden while Chula eats all the plants and Lola jumps and climbs the trees. Maine prefers to be barefoot while painting and singing in her studio. She is a pretty good cook and sweated several years near the oven and many pans. When not illustrating, she also enjoys swimming, writing, taking photos.
Holmes, Stuart
Londoner Stuart Holmes is now based in Australia's creative enclave of Melbourne. Trained as a graphic designer, he felt that illustration allowed him much more freedom, and he developed a flat vector style that has remained popular for well over a decade.
Stuart is addicted to vinyl and wherever he goes seeks out a record crate to dig through. He's also a huge fan of Southampton FC, and led the team out as a mascot back when he was seven years old.
With a background in fashion design, Dena is now a leading New York illustrator with a growing list of industry clients. Transplanted into Brooklyn from Fredricksburg, Virginia, she loves New York and Fashion Week in particular. "I'm very influenced by street style that I see around the city, specifically the effortless chic that so many New Yorkers exude walking down the street."
Further inspiration comes from designers like Marchesa, Dior, Delpozo, and Viktor & Rolf, but Dena also loves reading, running, a good cup of coffee or a glass of wine.
Rollet, Claire
Born in France, Claire Rollet spent over 20 years in London and has recently relocated to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. London will always hold a very special place in her heart but for now she is loving cycling around discovering the Dutch capital. In her spare time she loves sewing; each garment she sees as a mathematical problem waiting to be solved.
Music accompanies Claire in her work and she has daytime and night-time playlists. Todd Terje, Kiki Gyan, Mashrou' Leila and Cosima are out when the sun's up, and at night she listens to the likes of Hercules Love Affair, Gotye and Baloji.
Henderling, Lisa
Fresh, exciting, evocative vector illustrations, for advertising, publishing, editorial, and packaging. Clients include: Bic, V-8, Coke, Hasbro, Macy's, Nordstroms, Hallmark, NYTimes, WSJ, Taco Bell, Ritz, Hanes, Scholastic, Penguin, K-Mart, and many more.
Smith, Kelly
Kelly Smith is an Australian Illustrator, working predominantly in fashion and beauty.
With a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Tasmanian School of Art, Kelly majored in photography and graphic design, but reverted back to her love of drawing after graduating. She ran a blog and launched her career after being interviewed in Vogue about an exhibition she was mounting.
Kelly's approach is mainly traditional, with 90 per cent of the work completed using a graphite pencil. She then scans the drawing in, adding colour and tweaking the image using Photoshop. Her compositions vary – usually it's a case of highlighting one focal area that's full of beauty, but in other cases she builds up a scene to surround it.
Her images are intricate, finely detailed pencil illustrations, incorporating pops of digital colour. They are soft and feminine in tone and content.
Baviera, Rocco
Graphic Illustration for Corporate, Editorial, Advertising and Children's Books. Clients include: The Grammy Awards, Playboy Jazz Festival, Wall Street Journal Asia, The Washington Post, Expenience Life Magazine, M.A.D.D., Manpower Inc., OmniPod, Syngenta, Ketchum Canada Inc., World Wildlife Fund, Ontario Parks, Clarks Shoes UK, Up with Paper, Scholastic Books, Penguin Putnam, Skinner House Books, Cambridge University Press UK, Chirp Magazine, Two Peas in a Bucket,, and Kids' CBC. Digital files can be supplied as vector. KEYWORDS: Animals Green Eco Nature Wildlife Fun Whimsical Retro Digital Computer Illustrator Photoshop Fashion Design T Shirt Poster Retail Merchandise Environment Vintage Scrapbooking, food, beverage, drink, posters, packaging, travel, coffee, wine, business, financial, conceptual, suit, briefcase, retro, madmen, cool, Children Cute Kids
Maravillas, Jennifer
With Filipino and European roots, and with freckles from head to toe, Jennifer Maravillas feels as if she's on a detective-like quest to understand as many different perspectives as possible. Her roots as an artist, meanwhile, go back to her training in ballet as a child. She sees her art as a kind of ballet performed on paper using a marker.
She rarely restricts herself to just a marker, though. Watercolour, spray paint and various other media are used in her illustrations. As a side project, she has made a map of Brooklyn out of garbage, and in future plans to try and map as much of the world as she can. On top of painting, her passions are anthropology and sociology.
Jennifer did an undergraduate degree is in Graphic Design at the University of Louisville and a graduate degree is in Mass Communication at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The techniques Jennifer uses are constantly changing, and her style often comes as a result of the medium she's exploring at a given time. By and large she's a mixed media artist, always trying new materials and combinations of them – typically they include watercolour markers, ink, spray paint, pencil, cut out paper, block printing, and Photoshop. Sometimes she allows a composition to evolve without knowing what the end result might be like, other times she has a clear idea in her head of what she wants.
Jennifer is fascinated by the digital process. She scans in every doodle and texture she draws or paints, keeping them for reference or for use as layers in new pieces.
Jennifer uses vibrant colour combinations as she builds up maps, cityscapes and scenery from hundreds of smaller handmade elements. Some of her influences include Werner Herzog, Mary Blair, Guy Debord, and Buckminster Fuller.
Napier, Martha
When Martha Napier took the leap and became a full-time freelance illustrator in 2013, the world of fashion design lost a wonderful creator, but the world of illustration gained an excellent artist. Martha's vivid watercolours and loose, almost naïve style, have given a lighthearted lift to all kinds of interesting projects in fashion, advertising, editorial and more. She also does live painting for clients, and was named a top illustrator to watch on Instragram by InStyle magazine.
Martha was born in the Midwest, grew up in Germany, and today splits her time between Chicago and New York. She loves fashion – that much is clear – and her most admired designers include Miuccia Prada, Marni, and Phoebe Philo. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse and Cy Twombly are three artists that inspire her.
Beyond art and fashion, she's had a fascinating life. She's travelled to the North Pole, and to the Galapagos Islands. "The only place I've seen a cactus, a flamingo and a penguin in the same location," she says.
Martha has a BA in Studio Art from Wake Forest University, and was a Presidential Scholar at the same college in Fine Art. She discovered her love of fashion illustration at the Parsons School of Design, where she studied for a post grad degree in Fashion Design.
Watercolours are Martha's main media, but she also uses markers, pencils and acrylics. She scans the work into Photoshop and uses the application to clean it up and colour correct it before delivering it to her clients.
Martha is very much a gestural painter, with a very fine skill in getting paints to flow from her brush and soak beautifully into the paper, and to mix with one another. Seen up close, it's a gorgeous effect. Her work is vibrant and vivid as you can see, and full of joy and whimsy.
Kyle T. Webster Illustration
Editorial, book, poster, and advertising illustration with distinctive, exquisite line work. I work digitally but my art feels hand made. Vibrant color is a trademark, and concept is key.
Day, Amber
Being able to create a world for somebody using just lines and colours – that's what fascinates Amber Day, an LA-based illustrator who's done stunning work for a range of fashion, beauty and lifestyle brands. "There's no better feeling to me than being able to tell a story through an image," she says.
Travel and taste are two of her biggest passions. "I've literally eaten my way through Europe, Africa, and Asia, and I love paddle boarding on The Great Lakes," she explains.
Alongside the travelling and eating, she's always drawing - fashion, food and beauty. Her visit to Morocco inspired her to draw Moroccan rugs for weeks, and the Red Panda at Nashville Zoo led to an obsession with the species. So far, her favourite city is Prague and she returns there two or three times a year. At home, her best friend and work partner is Kale, a rescue poodle with three legs.
Amber studied for a degree in Visual Communications from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles.
Amber's bold line work has a natural, sketched feel to it, while the addition of watercolour gives her illustrations an organic look and her restrained use of colour sets the mood. A few years ago, she made the decision to draw products how they'd look when laid out flat and it's proven extremely popular with clients in fashion and beauty.
When she's creating culinary sketches, she gives them a personal perspective and includes the nuances of real life rather than aiming for perfection. "I want the viewer to feel like they are experiencing the food as if they are there. The napkin might be placed a little off, French fries might be brown from being cooked too long, and the burger could be half-eaten," she says.
Client List Rodale Fabletics Eater LA WeAr Magazine Salted John Ruvin Supply Raw Juicery Unique USA Nordstrom Conde Nast Heinz Epicurious Maybelline InStyle Hawaiian Airlines Apartment Therapy AARP Jamie Magazine Under Armour Wine Enthusiast Red Bull
Bradford, Tim
Living right next to a nature reserve in Nottingham, Tim Bradford also has the convenience of being just half a mile from the city centre. From alpine landscapes to geometry and animals, he's inspired by nature and also loves drawing people of all sizes, shapes and nationalities.
Tim studied for a BA Hons in Illustration at Lincoln University and an MA in Illustration and Animation at Kingston University London.
Everything begins as a pencil sketch, which is then coloured up digitally using Photoshop and Illustrator. With his animation skills, many clients ask him to create work for both print and digital projects where motion is required. For a more physical feel to his work, Tim is increasingly introducing hand drawn elements as well.
Most of Tim's imagery is quirky, fun and character based, and his work often incorporates custom typography along with some movement. Life, energy, charm and wit are what he strives for when he creates an illustration, and he likes to find visual solutions that are easy on the eye and keep you looking.
Client List Fanta HSBC Oxford University Press Cambridge University Nescafe Nivea Ogilvy & Mathers JWT Lufthansa
Larkum, Adam
It's a love of drawing that drives Adam Larkum, and it's something he practices every day, constantly coming up with quirky new characters and putting them in hair-raising situations. And if you chat with Adam for a while he has a few real life hair-raising situations to recount. While he was a teenager, his family lived in Alexandria, Virginia for a while where Adam became the projectionist in the town's cinema. When the bulb blew during the scariest part of Friday The 13th the crowd poured out of the cinema like a lynch mob…
This didn't deter Adam from studying animation once he got back to the UK, and as a student he won a competition to create a short film for MOMI and Channel 4. Once his career producing animated commercials was under way, he became an illustrator as well. He's now created over 30 children's books, and illustrates for magazines and packaging.
Adam studied illustration and animation, and received a BA followed by an MA from the Edinburgh College of Art.
Adam believes every commission should start with a pencil in one hand and an eraser in the other, and is never afraid to erase whole areas of a drawing if they aren't right. He loves working in ink on paper and then shifting into Photoshop to bring the piece together. If his work were a film, he says, it would be an Ealing Comedy – fun, fast and eccentric.
Client List Taylor's Port BBC Island Bakery Green King Faber and Faber Puffin Books Usborne Channel 4 Cambridge University press Oxford University press Egmont Publishing Ziggurat Brands The V&A Museum Ask magazine Ink Robin
Scott, Vicky
Growing up in West London near Richmond and the Thames, Victoria Scott was always drawing and making things as a child, and knew from an early age that she wanted to be an illustrator.
Her influences come from the early 20th century, such as Art Deco and Art Nouveau, but she also enjoys a bit of 60s psychedelia.
Vicky went to the Wimbledon School of Art and Design for foundation, and then went to the University of Brighton to gain a BA in Illustration.
All of Vicky's illustrations are created as handmade paper collages. By its very nature, Vicky's work is highly figurative, and you'd describe it as quirky, colourful, bold, graphic and a little retro. She likes to bring a narrative element into her work as much as possible.
Client List Microsoft Volkswagen Radio Times Top Sante magazine Dobbies Garden Centre Paperchase The Elephant Parade Bayer Regents College Queen Mary's University
So, Caroline
Imagination, adventure and emotion are at the heart of Caroline So's fashion and beauty illustrations, and they're ingrained in her personality as well. Originally from Southern California, she set off for the Big Apple at 17 with the goal of working in fashion and she hasn't looked back since. Now she finds herself producing stylish and elegantly whimsical imagery for the biggest names in fashion and beauty, with a portfolio that's going from strength to strength.
Caroline has 10 years of experience working as a fashion designer, and that background helps her find the right solutions for her clients with every image she creates.
Her inspirations include Francis Bacon and Egon Shiele, and she loves collecting novel perfume bottles, secretly watching reality TV, and backpacking.
Caroline has a bachelor's degree in Fashion Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her philosophy has always been to carry on learning new techniques to broaden her skills and style. She continually explores fresh processes and effects, enabling her to impart emotion, energy and a touch of attitude into her clients' projects.
Caroline's style is bursting with emotion, whimsy and life. She likes to bring a touch of joy to everything she does, and gives her subjects a sense of playfulness, delicacy and quirkiness.
Client List Fresh Beauty Marc Jacobs Beauty Kate Spade New York NYDJ Lou and Grey Ines Di Santo Designow LIA Fashion Vanilab
Marta Orzel
Marta was born in a small town in Poland and for as long as she can remember she's been passionate about drawing. She studied Drawing and Illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland. Marta currently resides in France sharing her studio with a group of friends and finding her inspiration in nature, science and everyday life.
Marta's work is a mix of plants and organic life set against straight lines, right angles and sharp geometric shapes where intense, succulent colours are used to bring a lively sense of character to her work. The images she produces are filled with mountain landscapes, deep forests inhabited by animals and fantastic creatures walking under sparkling skies.
Chris Andrews is an Illustrator and Printmaker based in Bedfordshire, UK. His work combines striking compositions with strong use of colour and texture, resulting in digital images that have a vintage, nostalgic appeal. Chris is also known for his vintage-inspired British bird and animal screen prints which recall the graphics and fonts found in 1940's educational books. He has exhibited and sold prints both in the UK and internationally. Clients include Ted Baker, Farrow and Ball, and the British Library.
Crush is a truly integrated design agency providing creative solutions across all print, digital and moving media. We believe in a collaborative creative process and intelligent idea generation. We're passionate about our work and famed for producing standout creative for clients all over the world. We don't just want to simply make stuff look good, we want to make smart ideas look great.
Taylor, Nadia
Nadia Taylor is a designer and printmaker based in London. Her colourful prints are filled with bold shapes and striking pattern. She loves screen-printing and the whole process informs her work – from the use of a limited colour palette to the incorporation of textures and dark outlines. Her work projects range from large-scale hand-painted murals, packaing, book covers, greeting cards, gift wrap, menus and farm signs with a list of clients including Ikea, Target, Mr Kipling, and Zizzi Restaurants.
Field, Peter James
Peter has a degree in world art history and anthropology, specializing in Japanese culture, and taught for three years at state schools in the mountains of rural Japan. His intricate hand-made work focuses on the human figure, and particularly the face. His work is tender, playful and at times surreal. A fascination with the interplay of figurative imagery and abstraction has excited a recent interest in combining stylized subject matter with surface pattern.
Barber, Isobel
Isobel is a paper engineer and illustrator, living and working in the beautiful county of Dorset. Isobel graduated from the Arts University Bournemouth in 2012 with a degree in Textile design, where she specialised in creating illustrative patterns and print designs using a cut paper technique. Isobel continues to use this method to create detailed work and miniature sets, using layers of card and cut paper. Isobel has worked with a number of clients in fields such as advertising, editorial, branding, live illustration events and most recently film. Clients include The National Trust, Tesco, Lands' End, Harveys Furniture, Benson for Beds & Wilderness Festival. When not wielding a pair of scissors or a scalpel, some of her other pastimes include baking, prising scraps of stray paper from the jaws of her miniature schnauzer Otto, running along the Dorset coast, flowers and photographing colourful things.


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The Maternal Immune System and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Material below is adapted from the SfN Short Course The Maternal Interleukin-17a Pathway in Mice Promotes Autism-Like Phenotypes in Offspring, by Gloria B. Choi, PhD, Yeong S. Yim, PhD, Helen Wong, PhD, Sangdoo Kim, PhD, Hyun Ju Kim, PhD, Sangwon V. Kim, PhD, Charles A. Hoeffer, PhD, Jun R. Huh, PhD, and Dan R. Littman, MD, PhD. Short Courses are day-long scientific trainings on emerging neuroscience topics and research techniques held the day before SfN's annual meeting.
Researchers have shown before that if a mother has a viral infection during pregnancy, her baby has a higher chance of having autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Studies have also shown that activating the maternal immune system in mice leads to ASD-like symptoms in the mouse pups. But it was not clear how the mother's immune system interacted with the fetal brain.
Now, scientists have found that the development of ASD in offspring after maternal immune system activation requires the presence of IL-17a, a substance secreted by a type of immune cell called a T helper 17 (Th17) cell.
It is possible that targeting the Th17 cells to prevent them from secreting IL-17a could prevent the development of ASD-like symptoms in the children of mothers whose immune systems are activated during pregnancy.
The research team induced an immune response in pregnant mice and found that the presence of a number of immune-related proteins, including IL-17a, increased in the placenta and uterine lining. They learned that this increase was tied to the presence of IL-6, a protein that causes the maturation of Th17 cells.
There was also an increase in the RNA that encodes the receptor that binds IL-17a in the brains of fetuses from mothers that had an immune reaction while pregnant.
In order to determine whether it was IL-17a activation causing the ASD-like symptoms in the pups, the researchers next used antibodies to block IL-17a as they activated the maternal immune system. They found that offspring whose mothers had activated immune systems displayed abnormal development of the cortex, but blocking IL-17a resulted in normal cortex development.
The pups of pregnant mice that received the IL-17a-blocking antibody also did not show the increased expression of IL-17a receptor RNA.
These results suggest that the cortical disorganization observed in pups whose mothers' immune systems were activated during pregnancy is due to increases in maternal IL-17a and its presence in the pups' brains.
The authors then investigated whether maternal immune activation affected pups' communication and behavior. Pups whose mothers had activated immune systems showed fewer social behaviors and more repetitive behaviors — both of which are ASD-like symptoms — and also vocalized more.
When these mothers also received the IL-17a blocking antibody, their pups were indistinguishable from controls. Directly administering IL-17a to the brains of mouse pups in the absence of maternal immune activation also led to cortical disorganization and ASD-like behavior, suggesting that abnormal anatomy and behavior are a result of maternal IL-17a in the fetal brain.
Finally, the researchers activated the maternal immune system and gave the IL-17a-blocking antibody two days later, a situation that models the use of the antibody as a therapeutic. Given in this way, the antibody partially rescued some of the ASD-like behaviors in the offspring, namely the communication and repetitive behaviors, but pups of immune-activated mothers still displayed abnormal social behavior.
Future directions of the work include investigating whether IL-17a has a normal function in the brain and, more generally, how immune activation and inflammation during pregnancy can influence neurological development.
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danny hess, san franCisco
Danny Hess builds sustainably-minded surfboards from reclaimed wood and recycled foam from a workshop in San Francisco. The space is called "The Woodshop," a work space in San Francisco's Outer Sunset that he shares with three other artisans
Hess' boards are sold in the local alternative-craft surf shop Mollusk and are relatively common in San Francisco lineups, but here in europe they are rare. and with rare i mean, not around; when we held the first two boards that came in we were surprised; they're super light, with deck and rails made of different colors of wood and the other with a single sheet of wood at the top and a bottom of bright-white foam: a recycled EPS core wrapped in a wood shell, usually poplar. They're not cheap, running nearly 1,300 per board, but in theory you could surf the more durable wooden designs for a decade or more. There are enough people who consider the boards a worthy investment to keep Hess Surfboards backlogged with a six- to eight-month waitlist.
"I want to make sustainably-built boards as an option for people who care about where their products come from," says Hess. "But a surfboard isn't going to change the world." Hess thinks of more eco-friendly boards as just one piece of a holistic approach to sustainable living. Boards built with reclaimed, sustainably harvested wood, recycled foam, and bio-resins are just a start.
Dan Malloy gracing a cover on a hess board quite a while ago already; this is not a fad!
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15-year-old arrested in shooting at The Hub's rooftop pool, blocks from Purdue
West Lafayette police arrested a 15-year-old, saying he shot two men during a rooftop party at The Hub, a new high-rise complex near Purdue.
15-year-old arrested in shooting at The Hub's rooftop pool, blocks from Purdue West Lafayette police arrested a 15-year-old, saying he shot two men during a rooftop party at The Hub, a new high-rise complex near Purdue. Check out this story on jconline.com: https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2019/09/17/no-arrest-no-suspect-after-2-shot-west-lafayette-high-rise-roof-pool-near-purdue/2349624001/
Dave Bangert, Lafayette Journal & Courier Published 7:22 a.m. ET Sept. 17, 2019
West Lafayette police say they believe shooting at The Hub's rooftop came during a party attended by people who didn't attend Purdue or live in the complex
The Hub on Campus, at the corner of State st. and Salisbury st., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019 in West Lafayette. (Photo: Nikos Frazier | Journal & Courier)
WEST LAFAYETTE – Police arrested at 15-year-old boy Monday evening, suspecting that he was the one who shot two men early Sunday morning at a rooftop pool and patio area at The Hub on Campus, a high-rise apartment complex catering to Purdue students that opened a month ago.
Lt. Jon Eager, investigations commander with the West Lafayette Police Department, offered few details about the teen, was arrested in connection to a shooting that happened at 2:12 a.m. atop the 11-story complex midway up State Street hill in West Lafayette.
The teen was being held Monday in the Tippecanoe County Juvenile Detention Center, suspected of aggravated battery, battery resulting in serious bodily injury and battery by means of a deadly weapon.
Details about how police found the teen or why he is considered the suspect were not immediately clear Monday evening. The teen was not named because he was a minor and not charged as an adult. Eager said he expected to be in position to release more information on Tuesday.
Before the arrest, Eager described a chaotic scene early Sunday morning. When officers arrived at The Hub that night – "Within seconds of the call, I'm sure, because we were all down there that night," he said – they saw 15 to 20 people leaving The Hub, mixing in with a crowded night in the West Lafayette Village, where bars and restaurants were catering to crowds out after Purdue's home football game Saturday night.
Eager said police believe the shooting happened at a party on The Hub's rooftop, attended by "local residents from Tippecanoe County" but unaffiliated with Purdue. The victims were Lafayette residents who were not Purdue students and were not residents of The Hub, 111 S. Salisbury St.
INITIAL REPORT: 2 shot overnight on rooftop of new West Lafayette high-rise near Purdue
Eager said Treveontae Boyd, 18, of Lafayette, was one of the two men shot. Boyd was treated and released Sunday from a Lafayette hospital. The second man, Yeriyah Taylor, 20, of Lafayette was taken Sunday to Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis, according to police. Taylor's updated condition wasn't immediately available Monday afternoon.
Dominick Luciano, senior vice president of marketing for Core Spaces, the Chicago-based developer of The Hub, said the building's management team was working with West Lafayette police on the case.
Luciano also told the J&C that the Hub's rules state that each resident is allowed to have up to five guests in their apartments and one guest per resident on the rooftop pool, when it is open. Luciano said the rooftop pool is accessible only to resident and their guests.
Luciano said Core Spaces officials "are revisiting our plans and will work with local police to ensure the safety of our residents."
The Hub was one of two high-rise, student-oriented apartment complexes to open in August along State Street, a few blocks away from Purdue, featuring rooftop pools and decks. Those were departures for a city that had been reluctant to approve rooftop bars in the Village area in the past.
Both rooftop amenities – at The Hub and the neighboring, 16-story Rise at Chauncey – made news within the first weeks of opening, when video went wide on social media of a man throwing full cans of beer from the roof of the Rise to the rooftop pool of The Hub. That incident was blamed on a guest at the Rise, where management announced stricter rules and penalties for tenants pulling similar stunts. (Video surfaced later of objects being thrown up several stories from the Hub's roof to the roof deck of the Rise.)
Erik Carlson, West Lafayette's development director, officials from city hall and the police department met with Core Spaces and CA Ventures, the developer of Rise at Chauncey, less than two weeks ago, after the beer can-throwing situation.
"We plan to meet with (The Hub) folks again this week on security," Carlson said.
Since The Hub opened, there have been 10 calls for service for police, fire or medical runs, according to numbers compiled Monday by West Lafayette Deputy Chief David Van Vactor. For context with three other large, student-centered apartment complexes, that compared to 33 calls for the Rise; 12 at State Street Towers at the southwest corner of State Street and River Road; and 43 at Launch Apartments, 400 N. River Road.
"I wouldn't say that was a ton of calls for service for those newer buildings," Van Vactor said. (He said that of the 33 at Rise at Chauncey, the majority were fire alarms or other non-police calls.) "I honestly think there were two events that were newsworthy events at the newest complexes. I just think it happened that way, not because there's anything different with the people occupying those places."
How about the prospect of the rooftop pools, novel features near campus, being a draw for the curious and for people looking for a hangout?
Van Vactor said that was a possibility, "but I can't say for sure."
But Van Vactor said that question would be part of an ongoing conversation about security with managers of the two high-rises.
Reach Dave Bangert at 765-420-5258 or at dbangert@jconline.com. Follow on Twitter: @davebangert
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Q: @ManyToOne relation inserts null objects in Spring Data REST I'm new in Spring Data REST and after creating successfully some entities I'm facing a problem.
I have a table shopping_list that contains some shopping_list_products, shopping_list_product has a relation with shopping_list, all of this within a mysql database.
The problem is that when I try to create a shopping list with some products inside, the list is created but not the products. In the response I can see the products with id "null".
These are the classes (avoiding getters/setters):
ShoppingList:
@Entity
@Table(name = "shopping_list")
public class ShoppingList {

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
private Long id;
private String name;
private Date creationDate;
@RestResource(exported=false)
@OneToMany(mappedBy="shoppingList")
private List<ShoppingListProduct> shoppingListProducts;

ShoppingListProduct:
@Entity
@Table(name = "shopping_list_products")

public class ShoppingListProduct {
   @Id
   @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
   private Long id;
   private String name;
   private boolean checked;
   @ManyToOne(fetch=FetchType.EAGER, cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
   @JoinColumn(name = "shopping_list_id")
   private ShoppingList shoppingList;

And this is what happens when I tried to insert some products with postman:
I insert this:
{
"name" : "name",
"creationDate" : "2018-12-12",
"shoppingListProducts" : [
        {
            "name" : "product 1",
            "checked" : false
        },
        {
            "name" : "product 2",
            "checked" : true
        }
    ]
}

And I get a 201 (created) response with this result:
{
"name": "name",
"creationDate": "2018-12-12",
"shoppingListProducts": [
    {
        "name": "product 1",
        "checked": false,
        "resourceId": null
    },
    {
        "name": "product 2",
        "checked": true,
        "resourceId": null
    }
],
"resourceId": 60,
"_links": {
    "self": {
        "href": "http://localhost:8080/shoppingLists/60"
    },
    "shoppingList": {
        "href": "http://localhost:8080/shoppingLists/60"
    }
  }
}

As you can see, the resourceId created for the products within shoppingList is null, and if I go to the database, no products are created.
I can't find what is the problem, so I would really appreciate your help.
Thanks!

A: Please try changing the annotations for id to:
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)

A: Well, thanks to @BillyFrost I added a cascade on @OneToMany and after that I received a 500 error saying that shopping_list_id cannot be null.
So, I edited the setter of shoppingListProducts setting the current shopping list, like this:
public void setShoppingListProducts(List<ShoppingListProduct> shoppingListProducts) {

    for (ShoppingListProduct sp : shoppingListProducts) {
            sp.setShoppingList(this);
    }

        this.shoppingListProducts = shoppingListProducts;
}

And now it worked!
Thank you so much for your help!

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Kamala Harris Unveils Plan to End Gender Pay Gap – Forgets Her Staff's Salaries Are Public Record
By Pluralist | May 21, 2019
"And this, then, is not only about fairness and equality, it's about transparency. Show us what you got."
After Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., announced a plan meant to address the "gender wage gap," the Washington Free Beacon revealed Tuesday that her own office and campaign pay male workers more than women.
Harris' proposal, rolled out Sunday at a California rally for her Democratic presidential campaign, would fine corporations 1 percent of profits for every 1 percent in wage gap they allow. Under the plan, the onus would be on companies to prove that any disparities in pay for men and women were not the result of factors such as merit, performance or seniority.
According to the Beacon's analysis, Harris' Senate office reported paying women 94 cents for every dollar it paid men in its most recent financial disclosure, which covered April 1, 2019 to September 31, 2018. The median salary for men during that time period was $34,999. For women, it was $32,999.
For the previous six-month period, the numbers were $27,167 for men versus $25,749.97 for women.
Meanwhile, Harris' presidential campaign disbursements in the month of February showed a 13 percent gender pay gap. The median salary disbursement to women was $5,763.97. Men got $6,632.23.
The California senator touted her plan as "the most aggressive equal pay proposal in history."
"What I am proposing is we shift the burden. It should not be on that working woman to prove it, it should instead be on that large corporation to prove they're paying people for equal work equally," Harris said Sunday to supporters. "It's that simple, it's literally that simple. And this, then, is not only about fairness and equality, it's about transparency. Show us what you got. That's it."
According to a recent Harvard study, which largely echoes that of previous research on the subject, most of the pay gap virtually disappears once men's tendency to work more hours than women is taken into account.
Cover image: Kamala Harris pay gap (Screen grab)
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Kelly Norah Drukker is the author of Small Fires, (McGill-Queen's University Press), a debut poetry collection that won the 2016 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, the 2016 Concordia University First Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal (2016).
Born in Montreal, Kelly grew up in the Laurentian region of Quebec, and has worked and taught English in the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, and France. Her poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared in The Malahat Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Montreal Review of Books, The Island Review, The SHOp, enRoute Magazine, Literary Review of Canada, Headlight Anthology, Room Magazine, Poetry New Zealand, carte blanche, and The Montreal Prize Longlist Anthology. In 2006, her suite of poems "Still Lives" won second prize in the CBC Literary Awards, and an abridged version was aired on CBC Radio's Between the Covers. Her work has received a Norma Epstein Prize for Creative Writing (2013), and has been longlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize (2011). A frequent performer at reading series in Montreal, she has also been a featured guest and reader on CBC, CKUT, and CJAD radio.
Kelly holds a Master's degree in English and Creative Writing from Concordia University. She has studied with The Humber School for Writers, and has participated in writing residencies at The Banff Centre and Sage Hill. She currently lives in Montreal, where she is pursuing a doctorate in Humanities at Concordia University.
Kelly Norah Drukker est l'auteure de Small Fires, un premier recueil de poèmes publié dans la Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series de McGill-Queen's University Press (juillet 2016) qui s'est mérité en 2016 l'A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry et le Concordia University First Book Prize 2016. Kelly était également finaliste pour le Grand Prix du livre de Montréal 2016. Née à Montréal, elle a grandi dans la région des Laurentides au Québec. Elle a travaillé et enseigné l'anglais au Royaume-Uni, en Irlande, en Suisse et en France. Ses poèmes et essais littéraires ont paru dans de nombreuses publications canadiennes et internationales, notamment The Malahat Review, Contemporary Verse 2, The Island Review, The SHOp, enRoute Magazine et Poetry New Zealand. En 2006, son recueil de poèmes Still Lives s'est mérité le deuxième prix des CBC Literary Awards et a été diffusé à la radio de CBC. Elle a reçu un prix Norma Epstein for Creative Writing (2013), et a été mise en nomination pour le Montreal International Poetry Prize (2011). Kelly donne souvent lecture de son œuvre à Montréal, elle a eu le plaisir de participer à des émissions radiophoniques à CBC, CJAD et CKUT.
Kelly possède un diplôme en anglais et création littéraire de l'Université Concordia. Elle a étudié à la Humber School for Writers et participé à des résidences littéraires au Banff Centre and Sage Hill. Elle vit présentement à Montréal où elle est doctorante en sciences humaines à l'Université Concordia.
To listen to Kelly's reading at the Atwater Poetry Project, click here.


Despite going two goals ahead, the Malta Under-21 side were held in a 2-2 draw by Cyprus in a friendly match at the Victor Tedesco Stadium on Tuesday following a good comeback by the visitors.
This was the first outing for the Under-21 side since Malta obtained a record number of eleven points in the UEFA Under-21 Championship qualifiers but since then, the vast majority of players are no longer eligible and in fact, only five players from that squad, namely James Brincat, Jurgen Degabriele, Jake Grech, Joseph Mbong and Kurt Zammit, are still available.
Malta took the lead on the 36th minute when off a cross by Kurt Zammit, Joseph Mbong headed home past goalkeeper Tasouris.
Eleven minutes in the second half, Malta doubled the score with a goal by Kyrian Nwoko who headed the ball home from close range.
Fytos Kyriakou pulled one back for Cyprus on the 75th minute when he beat Schranz from close range when served by Ilia from the left.
Ionnis Pittas levelled matters five minutes from time when he received the ball on the edge of the area, rounded a defender and hit low past the Malta goalkeeper.
Substitute Jurgen Suda was unlucky to hit the crossbar two minutes later with an angled shot when served on the left by Karl Micallef.
MALTA Philip Schranz, Daniel Buckle (46′ Sean Cipriott), Kurt Zammit, Karl Micallef, Dunstan Vella, Juan Corbolan, Jospeh Mbong, Jake Grech, Kyrian Nwoko, Jurgen Degabriele (85′ Dexter Xuereb), James Brincat (72′ Jurgen Suda).
CYPRUS George Tasouris, Antreas Karo, Christos Wheeler, Rafael Anastasiou, Kyriakos Panagi (58′ Antonis Koumis), Fanos Katelaris (46′ Fytos Kyriakou), Andreas Fragkou (89′ Thanasis Liasidis), Ioannis Pittas, Thodoros Iosifidis (59′ Marios Ilia), Ioannis Kousoulos (58′ Andreas Fragkeskou), Marios Nikolaou.
Good performance, excellent improvement and control in midfield by jake Grech, should be promoted at once to malta senior team.


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Die römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche Magdalenaberg steht in der Ortschaft Magdalenaberg in der Gemeinde Pettenbach im Bezirk Kirchdorf in Oberösterreich. Sie ist der heiligen Maria Magdalena geweiht und gehört zum Dekanat Pettenbach in der Diözese Linz. Das Bauwerk steht unter Denkmalschutz.

Lagebeschreibung
Die Kirche steht erhöht über dem Ort an der Adresse Magdalenaberg 1a. Nordseitig schließt der Friedhof an.

Geschichte
Die Kirche wurde um 1500 erbaut.

Kirchenbau

Kirchenäußeres
Die Kirche hat einen Westturm mit Zwiebelhelm. Auf dem Südportal, auf dem die Jahreszahl "151." steht, und am gotischen Nordportal sind an den Türen gotische Beschläge. Beide Portale haben Vorhallen. Südlich des Chores schließt die zweijochige Kreuzkapelle von 1685 an die Kirche an.

Kircheninneres
Die Kirche hat ein zweischiffiges, fünfjochiges Langhaus. Der spätgotische zweijochige Chor mit 5/8-Schluss ist netzrippengewölbt. Die interessanten, später als die Mauern und Pfeiler des Langhauses ausgeführten Renaissance-Gewölbe des Langhauses sind kreuzgewölbt. Das Gewölbe ist mit stuckierten Graten und Feldern aus der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts versehen.

Ausstattung
Der Hochaltar stammt aus dem Jahr 1713. Das Altarbild malte Andreas Steeger. Die Seitenaltäre mit Knorpelwerk sind von 1653. Die Kanzel stammt aus dem Jahr 1674. Aus dem ersten Viertel des 18. Jahrhunderts stammt das versilberte barocke Kruzifix. Im Langhaus hängen drei barocke Gemälde. Eines ist ein Vesperbild, eines zeigt die heilige Maria Magdalena und eines den heiligen Hieronymus. Die Bilder wurden Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts gemalt. Eine kleine Muttergottesstatue stammt vom Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts. Der Altar der Kreuzkapelle entstand aus Teilen aus dem 17. Jahrhundert.

Literatur
 DEHIO-Handbuch. Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs: Oberösterreich. Magdalenaberg. Pfarrkirche hl. Maria Magdalena. Bundesdenkmalamt (Hrsg.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Wien 1977, 6. Auflage, S. 190 f.

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[Interview] Joe Crossley Uses Technology to Weave Together Music and Art at Sydney Opera House
We speak with the new media artist about the technology behind Sound + Vision, an upcoming event where musicians collaborate with artists in real-time.
by Ingrid Kesa
January 22, 2016, 12:52am
'Tetra', a pixel mapped LED installation by Joe Crossley. All photos courtesy of the artist
Sydney-based new media artist Joe Crossley works at the intersection of art and technology, using light, projection mapping, motion sensors and more to activate public spaces and create large-scale installations. He's worked with fashion brands and adverting agencies, and has been involved in festivals like Burning Man and, numerous times, VIVID Sydney.
Later this month, he'll bring his experience to Sound + Vision, an event held in collaboration with Samsung at the Sydney Opera House. On the night, musicians will be paired with artists to result in a series of immersive one-off performances melding audio and visual. Empress Of teams up with design studio Nonotak; Banoffee and Oscar Key Sung collaborate with photographer Prue Stent; and Charles Murdoch comes together with Melbourne creative directors Tin & Ed. Using motion sensors, midi triggers, and audio manipulation, it will be up to Joe to weave together the audio and visual elements of each set. We caught up with Joe ahead of the show to ask him about working with the talent and technology, and what we can expect on the night.
The Creators Project: When did you first start working with technology?
Joe Crossley: At school I had a scholarship for music so I would always be lugging a cello around with a new pickup I had made and playing with what was back then very basic samplers and synths. I studied marine biology at university and was always interested in microscopy and transferring visuals from slides to screen, and introducing sound to the biology samples and seeing how animals would react. In my twenties I was a DJ, so I was always into the newest devices, effects, and DAW's, and then projections and stage shows.
When does something go from being a piece of technology to being a piece of art?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder… I suppose anything can be art to anyone if it has a meaning to that person. I got to speak to UK artist Greyson Perry and ask him about the meaning of meaning and he said, "If you find a meaning in anything I am doing then I am going to take that and assimilate that into my understanding of my art." Technology is intended for function generally, and in that same sense when the form or function is beautiful then in my eyes it becomes art.
Joe Crossley's creative direction work for VIVID Sydney's 'Path to the Future' event featuring projection mapping
Can you tell us a bit about what sort of technology you'll be utilising for each performance and to what effect?
We have three very individual shows for Sound + Vision. Charles Murdoch is going to interact with Tin & Ed using a sound analysis program that takes data from the sound outputs—volume, tone, brightness—and then uses this data to interact with the artworks. Banoffee and Oscar Key Sung are going to be working with Prue Stent's still photographs and a KINECT 2 sensory system we built. [It will be] simple and artful, very much like Prue's work. Motion will trigger effects and light constructs in the concert hall. Empress Of will be interacting with Nonotak via the use of the old school midi signals and drum triggers literally controlling the lights and projections via a custom-built grid visualiser, which was actually inspired by Close Encounters.
You're also using some custom-built Samsung devices, right?
We're operating the whole show using the Galaxy Tab S2, which will be wirelessly connected to a collection of computers and devices; rethinking control technology and breaking down the areas of what can be linked together with matched signals and triggers from sound, motion, and band.
Are you trying out any new technologies for this project?
Yes, we're connecting three bands' instruments together and processing sound, midi, and 3D data in real-time directly to a huge collection of outputs. We've developed our own sound analysis component, working closely with people like Chris Vik [sound and interaction designer] as well as an innovative drum/sampling machine with Dr. Ollie Bown of UNSW—so there is a heap of new tech going in at the back end.
A lighting design project commissioned by the University of Sydney
How closely have you been working with the artists involved? What has the creative process been like?
We're still in the creative process as I answer this. We're pulling the entire show together in three weeks, which is pretty much a huge task for artists and tech. We're working alongside each artist to collaboratively craft a vision for the show. It's like baking a cake—everyone gets to throw their ingredient in the bowl and the results are all going to be real-time so it will be experimental and not your average event in any way. It's actually quite an unnerving process making the apparatus for real-time art, but the artists have been great so I'm keen to see what happens live.
Obviously there's a lot of variables when it comes to live performance. How tightly is everything pre-planned?
Well, it's going to be as tightly [planned] as a real-time performance can get. The effects and art is set; the way it works and how it looks is going to be entirely up to the performers themselves—the notes they play, the movements they make, and the sound of their voices will all play a key factor. So we shall see what happens at show time!
Ambient visuals created for a sunrise set at Burning Man 2013
You can check out Joe Crossley's site here or follow him on Facebook here. Sound + Vision is happening on Sunday Jan 31 at the Sydney Opera House. You can find out more info here.
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[Eye Candy] Projection Mapping the Sydney Opera House
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Tagged:TechnologyProjection Mappingsamsungnew mediaempress ofSydneyBanoffeeSydney Opera HouseOscar Key SungSound + VisionNonotakCharles MurdochPrue StentJoe CrossleyTin & EdCreators


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Hirsch Servo turnover climbs
Glanegg-based machine manufacturer Hirsch Servo AG has achieved a significant turnover increase.The Carinthian company said today (Fri) that its turnover improved by 20 per cent to 47 million Euros in the first half of the 2010/2011 business year. Its earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) reached 620,000 Euros after losses of 2.19 million Euros in […]
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Hirsch Servo recovers from crunch effects
Carinthian machine and packaging manufacturer Hirsch Servo AG managed to reduce its losses in the past business year.The company said today (Fri) it suffered net losses of 6.2 million Euros in the 2009/2010 business year, down by 4.5 million Euros year on year.Hirsch Servo, which managed to keep its turnover stable at around 86 million […]
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Hirsch Servo sinks deeper into the red
Carinthian machine and packaging manufacturer Hirsch Servo AG reported today (Fri) that it had sunk deeper into the red in the first half of its 2009/2010 business year (1 July to 30 June).The firm said its losses had increased by 0.25 per cent year on year to 2.19 million Euros and its turnover had declined […]
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Salzburg Festival fraudster cannot yet be questioned
The former technical director of the Salzburg Easter Festival (Osterfestspiele) cannot yet be questioned by the public prosecutor's office over fraud, his lawyer Leopold Hirsch said today (Thurs).Klaus Kretschmer, whom an audit has found solely responsible for embezzlement of up to 800,000 Euros from the Festival since 2006, is recovering from a jump from a […]
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Van Vicker Achievements, Biography & Net Worth: Interesting Life Story, Scandals, & Family History Of Africa Most Handsome Actor
Van Vicker Achievements, Biography & Net Worth: Interesting Life Story, Scandals, & Family History Of Africa's Most Handsome Actor
By NaijaGists.com reporter
It is a well-known fact that Van Vicker is one of the A-list actors that have written their names in the history books of entertainment in Africa. This man has managed to penetrate the African movie industry as a whole, and his story is quite astonishing for someone that started from the streets of Ghana.
His chiseled body which gives him the looks of a model and attractive smile has put him on the list of Africa's favorite movie lover boys which include Majid Michel of Ghana and Ramsey Noah of Nigeria just to mention a few.
Van Vicker's story is one that includes the trivial of a teenager of mixed origin growing up with a single parent and climbing up the ladder of his profession, step by step until he had his big break. The actor had his high school in one of the most prominent schools in Ghana and from then on had been on a spiral of breakthroughs and fame.
One can call this actor a veteran in the entertainment industry as his work experience ranges from modeling to the radio before he ended up making his name on the TV screen as one of the most talented and charismatic actors in the whole of the African scene. Not stopping there, the actor decided to further his career, and he is currently the CEO of Sky + Orange Productions, a fast-rising production house located in Ghana.
An actor life is characterized by fame and its luxuries, but this also has its negative consequences. The actors have made headlines over the years in various allegations linking him to different women both inside and outside the entertainment industry. Nonetheless, the actor is married to a beautiful lady named Adjoa Vicker, and the couple is currently blessed with three children.
Despite the setbacks and challenges, Van Vicker is, without doubt, one of the biggest actors to ever come out of Ghana and Africa as a whole. His good looks and superior acting skills have separated him from his peers, and currently, at the age of 41, the actor still has a lot in store for his fans.
Van Vicker Early Life: Place Of Birth & Educational Profile
Van Vicker was born on the 1st of August 1977 to parents of mixed origin going beyond continents. His mother was Ghanaian and Liberian while his father was Dutch. A condition many of his fans have attributed to his very good looks.
Unfortunately, the actor lost his father at the age of 6 and claimed it was a very trying time for his family as a whole. Van Vicker had claimed on various interviews that his father's death was a heavy blow on his family especially his mother. He claimed she was very courageous and didn't slack in her responsibilities of taking care of him and raising him well. His childhood was one that was well spiced with trips and traveling to different places. He has a popular habit of calling himself a 'global citizen' having been raised in different locations all over the world by his mother.
After reaching the appropriate age the actor was enrolled in Mfantsipim School, an institution of high reputation in Ghana having produced important world personnel such as Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the United Nations and his soon to be future colleague Majid Micheal. It is quite obvious the school helped instill some important habits and principles in him as he turned out to be a successful individual both in his professional and personal life.
Van Vicker Career, Awards & Net worth
As stated earlier, Van Vicker can be defined as a well-experienced individual in the entertainment industry. He started his professional career in Ghana, working at a popular local radio station known as Groove 106.3 FM, a job than spanned over one year. That is between 1999 and 2001, during this period he combined his current job with another one working as a radio presenter in another station known as Vibe 91.9 FM, also located in Ghana. He completely moved to Vibe FM and worked there from 2001 to 2004.
This is of no surprise that the actor was working two jobs at a time, this is because a profession as a radio presenter was not well paid enough compared to nowadays. After a stint working as a radio presenter, the actor decided to push his career forward and expand his horizon.
He made his first screen appearance working as a TV personality at a popular Ghanaian TV station known as TV3 Ghana; this was between 1997 and 1999 before proceeding to work at Metro TV several years later. He had his big break as a professional actor when he featured in blockbuster movie 'Suncity'from then on it has been a non-stop climb up the ladder of success in his career.
He broke into the Nollywood industry when he featured in a 2004 romance movie titled Divine Love. He played a supporting role alongside colleagues Jackie Appiah and Majid Micheal. This is quite surprising because the movie serves as the debut for all three actors and they are all currently one of the biggest stars in Africa. One can thus characterize Divine Love as a magic movie.
He has since then gone to feature on many blockbuster movies alongside big stars on the Ghanaian and Nigerian entertainment scene. Some of them include Desmond Elliot, Nadia Buari and Rita Dominic. He is most significant as one of the famous Nollywood 'lover boy' trio which includes Van Vicker himself, Majid Michel and Nigeria's Ramsey Nouah. These three individuals are regarded as Nollywood's biggest lover boys, and they didn't fail to give their fans that action whenever they were on screen.
Some of his most prominent movies include the blockbuster movie My Soul Mate and Stolen Will. After a successful career as an actor, the actor decided to keep seeking grater heights and break new ground. He established his own production house in Ghana. The company was named Sky + Orange Productions and since its establishment in 2008,the company has successfully produced five movies earning the actor awards in the process.
Van Vicker has some reputable awards to his name. He won the Best Actor at the Afro-Hollywood Awards in 2009, African Channel's Creative Achievement Award at the Pan African Film Festival in 2011 and a host of many other prestigious awards. A major feat for him was when the movie Joni Waka, produced under his production company won him the Best Movie Award at the NAFCA. He also has many major nominations to his name and has won several local awards.
He has made a fortune from his status as one of the biggest stars in Africa and has a host of businesses to his name. His production company Sky + Orange Productions is rising amount the ranks in Ghana and has experienced a steady rise in value over the years. Similarly to many other professional actors, Van Vicker has other investments which are believed to be yielding constant positive earnings for him. With all these accumulated, Van Vicker has an approximate net worth of $700 million dollars. An astonishing feat for someone of his profession in Africa.
Van Vicker Family & Scandals
The famous actor who is of Liberian, Ghanaian and Dutch origin is a favorite among the ladies because of his extremely good looks and charisma. This is regarded as one of the factors that made him extremely marketable in the entertainment industry, thus granting him a very successful career.
Van Vicker has been involved in several controversies with the females, especially the ones in the same movie industry with him. This is of no surprise as the erotic nature of his roles in movies often gives his fans the wrong impression, or maybe not so wrong. There have been allegations of him having an affair with the biggest female stars such as Nadia Buari, Mercy Johnson, Chika Ike and many others. The most serious being when he was accused of breaking colleague Chika Ike's marriage in 2014. They have all managed to remain just as allegations, and the actor is happily married to his longtime wife of 14 years.
Van Vicker got married to his wife of 14 years, Adjoa Vicker on the 16th of October 2003. He claims to have met her almost a decade before then and admires how their relationship has grown despite the negatives attached to his career. The couple is blessed with three children which include a boy and two girls. Their names are J-ian Vicker, Vj Vicker, and J'dyl Vicker.
The famous actor has never failed to praise his wife whenever given a chance, he hails her all the time for the strength and restraint she possesses to keep his home intact despite the negatives attached to his work as an A-list actor and the fame that comes with it. His fans are also fond of his wife and marvel at her calmness and easy going attitude, considering she had to stay back in Ghana and raise the kids while the actor pursued his dreams in Nigeria's Nollywood.
Van Vicker's Achievement & Latest News
Although Van Vicker is currently at the age of 41 years, it does not look like he will be slowing down on his ambitions any time soon. The actor has converted his permanent move to Ghana from Nigeria and less screen time to a more profitable opportunity. His production company, Sky + Orange Productions which has its main site in Ghana is currently rising through the ranks, and the actors have decided to complement this with the training of a new talented generation of actors.
He has a training facility named after him, it is called 'Van Vickers Training Facility,' and the main objective is to develop talent and increase the value of the Ghanaian movie industry Ghallywood on the world scene. His training facility is only one of his philanthropic deed as the famous actor also has a foundation to his name.
Titled 'Van Vicker Foundation', the main purpose of the NGO is to reach out to Ghana's ailing youth population and tap resources that can help develop the country, especially in the entertainment industry. It is quite astonishing that the foundation has made a significant difference over the years, and this is attributed to the actor's popularity and ability to position to seek aid from the bigwigs.
The actor is not as active as he once was on the screen and his fans do not have a clear reason for this. Although it is quite obvious the actor now uses his time to develop his business and spend quality time with his family. Van Vicker made it to the headlines once again last year when he uploaded a rare picture which included his entire family. This went viral because the actor always did well to keep his family issues private and away from the public eye. He made a caption in which he lauded how his kids were growing up so fast and claimed it was sweet sorrow. His fans did well to receive it with warm hearts.
He has made a permanent move from Nigeria to Ghana and now resides with his family, a move many of his fans believe his wife would certainly appreciate. From Ghana, the veteran actor is working on development projects to put his country's local movie industry on the world map and give it more prominence. Many of his fans still expect blockbuster projects from him and he has not failed to deliver. His latest movie which is New Love alongside A-list female colleague Jackie Appiah was a very successful one, and it is obvious Van Vicker still has many more to offer.
Van Vicker is an epitome of talent. He has managed to build a career and family from scratch and develop both individually. He has made his name on the African entertainment scene. He has inscribed his name on Ghana Hall of Fame and is certain to remain relevant decades to come. He once admitted that Hollywood was his main prize and this is something his fans will hold on to.
This actor is without question one of Ghana's greatest of all time.
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2 thoughts on "Van Vicker Achievements, Biography & Net Worth: Interesting Life Story, Scandals, & Family History Of Africa Most Handsome Actor"
KY on August 28, 2018 at 11:33 PM said:
Nice read
Whaaaat? on August 29, 2018 at 7:39 PM said:
How is he Africa's most handsome actor? By whose standards? There are many actors from all parts of Africa who are more handsome than he is. It's ridiculous to claim that he's the most handsome. He's not ugly but he's certainly not the most handsome.
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Opening Lines with Jan Baynham: Her Sister's Secret
In Blog, Fiction, Jenny Kane, Opening Lines Blog, Romance
This week I'm delighted to welcome Jan Baynham back to my blog with the Opening Lines from her latest novel,
Her Sister's Secret.
Over to you Jan…
'Her Sister's Secret', with its sub-heading of 'the Summer of '66', is my second novel of three I've been contracted to write for Ruby Fiction. All three novels involve secrets and forbidden love, explore mother and daughter relationships and are partly set in countries other than Britain. 'Her Sister's Secret' was published on September 15th as an e-book. Much of it is set in beautiful rural mid-Wales and the rest in a fictional area of northern Sicily. The story opens in 1946 when a young Welsh woman, Rose Howells, begins work in the kitchens of a large country house. She has a tempestuous relationship with her father whom she suspects of dealing on the Black Market. When matters come to a head after a particularly serious argument, she leaves home and eventually makes a decision that will have repercussions for the whole family. Her name is never mentioned again and what she did becomes a deeply held family secret. In 1966, that secret is partly revealed and Jennifer Howells travels to Sicily to find out why she and Rose have been kept apart for over eighteen years. In the novel, I try to give a glimpse of what life was like in both eras and how society judged women living in both times. Jen's search for her true identity takes her to a wonderful island so different from rural mid-Wales in terms of climate, the colours, foods and way of life. I hope the book encourages readers to think about the decisions Rose made and whether, under the circumstances, they were the right ones. The role Aunt Edie plays in both stories is a crucial one.
How far would you travel to find the truth?
It's 1966 and Jennifer Howells is a young woman with the world at her feet, just on the cusp of leaving her Welsh village for an exciting life in the city.
Then the contents of an inconspicuous brown envelope turn Jennifer's world upside down. The discovery leaves her spiralling, unsure who she is. Overnight, Miss Goody Two Shoes is replaced by a mini-skirted wild child who lives for parties and rock'n'roll.
But Jennifer's experience with the excesses of sixties' culture leaves her no closer to her true identity. She soon realises she'll have to travel further – first to Cardiff, then across the ocean to Sicily – if she wants to find out who she really is …
A loud knocking echoed along the passageway of the cottage. Joe Howells opened the front door to a solemn-faced young man in uniform.
'Mr Joseph Howells? A telegram for you.'
The blood drained from Joe's face. As he took the envelope, his hand shook. His pulse raced so fast, he steadied himself against the hall table. Please, God. Don't let it be what I think it is.
Walking back into the scullery, he slid a finger under the flap of the envelope and unfolded the telegram with its Post Office logo heralding the message he didn't want to read.
MR AND MRS J. HOWELLS, 1 PENRHOS, PONTCARREG.
I REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR SON, GUNNER BRIAN JOSEPH HOWELLS (ARMY NUMBER: 864499) OF THE 8TH ARMY, HAS BEEN KILLED IN ACTION NEAR MESSINA IN SICILY.
Joe couldn't read any more. Transported back to the horror of the trenches in his war, he slumped to the floor and cradled his arms around his head. He tried to shut out the noise of shells exploding around him. He gagged on the stench of bloodied bodies, relived the pain of the gas blistering his skin under his damp uniform, tasted the burning bile in his throat and in his lungs as he tried to breathe. His hand traced the shape of the metal plate in his skull where they'd patched him up. Physically, at least.
The back door opened.
'Joe. Whatever's wrong?' Violet put down the washing basket and rushed to her husband.
It was then she saw the telegram discarded on the flagstone floor beside him.
'Oh, noo-oo!' she wailed. 'Not our beautiful boy.'
'What do you mean you know what I'm up to, you little madam?'
Joe Howells's voice rose to a bellow. He went to strike his daughter, but Rose backed away and he caught the back of his hand on the door post instead. He swore and Rose ran upstairs. She slammed the bedroom door behind her and, with tears pricking her eyes, fumbled to turn the key. She clenched her hands so tightly that her nails dug deep into her palms, flung herself on the bed and pictured her father pacing the floor in the kitchen below.
She heard him shouting angrily. 'The girl's gone too far this time. She needs to be taught a lesson.'
Her mother's voice was softer. 'Why do you two always have to annoy each other? You're both as bad as each other.'
But her mother didn't know what was really going on, did she? Her father's voice was closer now. He was at the foot of the stairs.
'Come down here at once, Rose, or I'll break the door down to make you!'
'No. Go away! I'm not coming out.'
Rose pulled the bed clothes closer to her chest and buried her head in the silky eiderdown to shut out her father's rage.
He hammered on the door with his fists.
Her throat tightened…
'Her Sister's Secret' is available on:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Her-Sisters-Secret-Summer-66-ebook/dp/B08F5H7YQF/
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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/her-sisters-secret-jan-baynham/1137428123?ean=2940162698852
You may find out more about Jan here:
Twitter – @JanBaynham https://twitter.com/JanBaynham
Facebook – Jan Baynham Writer https://www.facebook.com/JanBayLit
Blog – Jan's Journey into Writing https://janbaynham.blogspot.com/
After retiring from a career in teaching and advisory education, Jan joined a small writing group in a local library where she wrote her first piece of fiction. From then on, she was hooked! She soon went on to take a writing class at the local university and began to submit short stories for publication to a wider audience. Her stories and flash fiction pieces have been longlisted and shortlisted in competitions and several appear in anthologies both online and in print. In October 2019, her first collection of stories was published. Her stories started getting longer and longer so that, following a novel writing course, she began to write her first full-length novel. She loves being able to explore her characters in further depth and delve into their stories.
Originally from mid-Wales, Jan lives in Cardiff with her husband. Having joined the Romantic Novelists Association in 2016, she values the friendship and support from other members and regularly attends conferences, workshops, talks and get togethers. She is co-organiser of her local RNA Chapter, Cariad, and a member of the Society of Authors.
Many thanks for sharing your fabulous Opening Lines today, Jan,
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Thank you so much for inviting me to share my opening lines with you, Jenny. I thoroughly enjoyed writing 'Her Sister's Secret' and hope readers will enjoy Rose and Jen's stories.
Many thanks Jan – your opening lines are fabulous xx


Swiss and Austrian investors remain risk-averse, higher returns are the primary client concern and the level of satisfaction with private banks is falling in Switzerland. These are a few of the key findings of a representative survey of high net worth individuals from Switzerland and Austria conducted on behalf of LGT Group for the third time in spring 2014.
Asset allocation for Swiss investors has changed little since the last survey. Despite the two-year bull market, cash weighting still stands at a substantial 29 percent in portfolios. On the other hand Austrian private banking clients became more courageous and showed increased interest in the capital markets. The cash proportion has reduced from 55 to 29 percent since 2012. On the other hand the confidence of Austrian private banking clients in the markets gradually returned and investment levels increased. Since 2012 the cash proportion has fallen from 55 to 29 percent.
Client satisfaction among Swiss bank clients has fallen over the past two years, but remains at a very high level: 81 percent of respondents said they were satisfied or very satisfied with their primary bank, compared to 88 percent in 2012. In Austria, on the other hand, the satisfaction score remained stable: just as in 2012, 73 percent again said that they were satisfied or very satisfied with their primary bank.
You will find additional information and the LGT Private Banking Report 2014 (german) in the attached files.