Fashion Students Fly To Paris

If you want to learn about the fashion industry, Paris is the place to go.  Students from the fashion department recently flew to the city, with the aim of getting an insight into how the industry works in the fashion capital. The four day trip took place from 6th – 10th February 2011 and included [...]

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London Graduates Design Olympic Podiums

Graduates from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London are being given the chance to design the podiums used for medal presentations at the Olympics. The podiums will be used in over 770 ceremonies throughout the games and will be created from over 200 pieces of wood originally from the forests of British Columbia. [...]

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Olympic Stadium Row Continues

The building work hasn’t been completed yet but already there are rows over what will happen to the Olympic Stadium once the London games are over in 2012. Two football clubs, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham, have both placed bids in an attempt to call the stadium home. But this hasn’t come without controversy. Both [...]

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Olympics Not Just For Sport

With the 2012 Olympics just around the corner, the UK is gearing up for one of the most spectacular events in the sporting calendar. But former Olympian, David Moorcroft, who is now the Chair of the West Midlands Leadership Group for the 2012 games, is keen to stress that the Olympics are not just for [...]

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I McLove You!

As a nineteen year old female with her whole life ahead of her, the thought of marriage doesn’t enter my head very often. Despite this, i love watching wedding programmes such as Living’s ‘Four Weddings’ and BBC Three’s ‘Don’t Tell The Bride’. Since watching these programmes it has become clear to me that some women [...]

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Super Typhoons Hit Philippines

Around this time last year i wrote a post about photographer Spencer Tunick who was creating a new piece to make people more aware of global warming. He achieved this by having hundreds of volunteers pose naked in a Burgundy vineyard in an attempt to show that the naked body is just as vulnerable as [...]

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Fancy A Brew?

But this isn’t just any cup of tea. Its no secret that i like sweet things. I like eating them, i like baking them and i like seeing other people enjoying things i have baked. Around two years ago, I was given the responsibility of putting afternoon tea together at work. Although i have yet [...]

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The Social Network– The Rise Of Facebook

I was intrigued by The Social Network. There had been a lot of media attention around the film which is based on the creation of the social networking site, Facebook. I was aware that Mark Zuckerberg had created the ever popular website but was unaware of the circumstances it was created in and the amount [...]

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The Barbie Store, Shanghai

I haven’t played with a Barbie or even thought about a Barbie for quite some time now. I used to be obsessed with them. Every Christmas I would pick up the Argos catalogue to see the latest dolls I could have. I used to dream that they would make Barbie clothes for real people and [...]

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The Shanghai Height Increasing Specialised Institute

Whilst watching an episode of Oprah, i stumbled across a disturbing new form of plastic surgery which is sweeping across parts of China. In China to be tall is considered powerful and successful and with the average height being 5’6” for men and 5’2” for women, height is not something which comes to the Chinese [...]

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