Its the last few days to grab a bargain from local designers Signature Clothing. Im pretty passionate about supporting grass roots creative business, without it choice is narrowed to large mainstream fashion outlets and mass produced clothing. Go check these guys out.
Opening at the start of February on Albert Road will be The Wardrobe, Portsmouth’s only Designer Dress Agency. If you have clothes and/or accessories that you would like to get some money for then this is the place for you. To find out more see www.facebook.com/southseawardrobe for more details or email them at wardrobe@onrocks.co.uk.
Two talented designers have recently moved down south to Portsmouth and set up an interior design practice. Charles Joly and Dean Wright moved down from Scotland to start Joly & Wright specialising in interior design, dressing and sourcing individual items of furniture and art. They also offer a free consultation and proposal. Their clients range from both residential and commercial property. Dean’s background is in art direction and advertising whilst Charles comes from environmental consultancy.
“It’s been really nice spending the summer by the coast, there seems to be a vibrant art scene here, which is great. We have met a lot of really creative people already”. Dean Wright.
I popped around to visit them over the weekend and took some pics inside their house and studio. There are so many unusual pieces of furniture which they have either made or bought from auctions. A recent purchase was the optometry eye test light.
“When we looked into relocating, finding somewhere with a creative buzz was important.The Creative Portsmouth Book reassured us that Portsmouth had a lot to offer”. Charles Joly
Below is some examples of their furniture design the A-Shelve and Coffee Pal which you can see at Bonzo Studio on Albert Road, Southsea.
To see further images taken – http://www.flickr.com/photos/create_up/sets/72157627951289393/
While in Shoreditch earlier this week I stumbled across a t-shirt shop called We Admire. Inside I noticed Portsmouth’s HMS Victory on one of the tee’s. If you like the design you can buy it HERE.
Episode 3 is now ready to view from Wide Aperture Media. All shot on a digital SLR camera.
This time it feature’s Luci from Dead Man’s Glory on Albert Road. What a character she is.
Bonzo are holding their first T-Party tomorrow where you can come and sample t-shirts by some of Southsea’s finest creatives and also buy items for only £7 or less. There will also be live music and cake. You can’t go wrong!
Free entry, see you there.
(Tee and bag by Phil Bennett)
The new Strong Island Autumn/Winter tees arrived recently. Featuring the logo print on the front as before, and the anchor icon on the back neck, but this time round in a nice dark navy.
Get yours over at the SHOP HERE and stay posted for a mini lookbook, when we get a spare five minutes. Cheers.
Rosie Lee is an incredibly talented hair and make-up artist based in Portsmouth but working both locally and nationally. Rosie previously has extensive experience working for Lancome and Clinique colour expert and in recent activities achieved a Distinction+ diploma in Media Hair & Make-up at Centre Stage Studio. Centre Stage directed Rosie’s natural talent and skills covering everything from fashion, editorial, photography, special effects, old age, character, period, film, TV & HD, body painting, special occasions etc…
Find out more about Rosie’s work on FACEBOOK.
This coming new year we will be proud to announce our latest exhibition PRIMARY, a Phoneography exhibition by Strong Island and we are even happier to announce that it’s open to you, the readers.
With the continuing increase in impressive camera technology in mobile phones and the ability to alter, tweak, post process and upload the photos to social media networks and websites like Instagram, the popularity of Phoneography has never been greater.
The ‘of the moment’ ability to take a photo at almost any time and any place by most people has really driven the fact that the camera does not make the photographer. By which I mean, you don’t need an expensive camera to take outstanding photos.
Agreed, the quality of the physical image may not stand up to the big guns, but new learnings in composition, style and aesthetic by a new generation of camera users via online media has really driven this popularity, and encourage people to go beyond a ‘quick shot’.
PRIMARY invites you to get out and about around Portsea with your mobile phone camera and take photos of anything and everything based around the three primary colours red, yellow and blue. What you photograph is entirely up to you, but submissions will only be accepted if they stick to the theme.
The call for entires has now begun and the deadline is the 31st of January 2012 with the exhibition being held in March of 2012. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 3 photos per applicant are sent in to primary@strong-island.co.uk.
Please submit along with your photographs your name, photo title, phone model, location of photo on the island and any post process apps you used, if any, to achieve the final shot.
We look forward to seeing all the entries, and the final installation will be something special using every photo submitted in a slightly different fashion from your average photographic exhibition. CLICK HERE TO PRINT YOUR OWN POSTER
Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella
Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.
You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.
Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.
The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.
Poster: Tristan Savage
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