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Creative Futures by Pulp Magazine - a review
Creative Futures by Pulp Magazine
2008 November 28
As I stood in one of the most ornate rooms
in Manchester’s Town Hall sipping my free champagne, listening to Badly
Drawn Boy strumming his guitar, I wondered how I had managed to get
invited to an event like this. The answer was simple. I wasn’t invited,
this was Noise Festival.
Free to
any creative under the age of 25, whether your interest lies in
architecture, fashion, moving image, music, graphic design or
illustration, Noise Festival was the networking event that helps you to
get a leg up in the industry. The two day festival was attended
by over thirty creative organisations such as MTV, The SuperSuper,
Amelia’s Magazine, Noki and the BBC to name a few. A number of
designers and artists such as Stella Vine and the architect Patrick
Schumacher, Zaha Hadids partner, were also on hand to review portfolios
and to give invaluable advice to us, the wide-eyed designers of the
future.
Tuesday
evening was a definite highlight. The fashion show, styled by Dr Noki’s
House of Sustainability label, was a showcase of fashion students and
graduates creations. As the models strutted down the catwalk to jaunty
dub step, it was Scottish fashion graduate Annabel Breens graphic tops
and watch print leggings that were particularly impressive and eye
catching. The evening finished with a set by Noise Festival success
story The Jesse Rose Trip, followed by Badly Drawn Boy.
The
whole event felt really well organised and the attention to detail was
spot on. I left feeling totally inspired. The hardest thing is to get
your work noticed in such a competitive industry but Noise offers
everyone the chance to show off their work on a level platform and
hopefully to potential employers.
If you didn’t make it to the event, you can still upload your work onto the Noise Festival website.
Hannah Murgatroyd
Photographs by Zuza Grubecka
A
post from the blog of PULP Magazine, Manchester Metropolitan University’s student magazine.. You can read more of PULP's blog on PULP Magazine online here
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