Businesses are being invited to support a festival that will bring an impressive array of international writing talent to Bristol and Bath later this month. A dozen of the best writers and performance poets from across the African Diaspora will take part in the Yardstick Festival from June 27 to...
Bristol’s sustainable businesses will be celebrated in the city’s first awards showcase dedicated solely to innovation. Bristol Business News’ Bristol Innovation Awards include an Innovation in Sustainability category alongside sectors ranging from creativity to bioscience. The awards are staged with Bristol Business News’ recently-launched magazine WestBusinessNews, which will give...
Following the success of the inaugural South West PA of the Year Awards last year, Bristol Business News and its sister titles including the recently-launched WestBusinessNews magazine, have again teamed up with prestigious Ston Easton Park Hotel, near Bath, to stage the South West PA of the Year Awards...
Mandy Rose, the producer of award-winning digital media initiatives including the BBC’s ground-breaking Video Nation project has been appointed as director of UWE Bristol’s Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC). The centre, in Bristol’s Watershed, brings together art and design, computer science, cultural and media studies to explore how people...
Award-winning children’s illustrator and artist Hannah Cumming has been chosen by Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT to paint its Gromit sculpture – part of the city’s Gromit Unleashed Art Trail. Hannah, who has been highly commended in the Macmillan Children’s Book Prize for two consecutive years, uses watercolours, ink, coloured...
Bristol’s burgeoning reputation as a major centre for the creative and digital industries has been enhanced with the opening of a state-of-the-art £7m business campus. Temple Studios, next to Temple Meads station and part of the city’s developing Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone, is already home to clutch of young...
Creative England has appointed Kate Buxton, formerly of the BBC, as its new head of communications and strategy. Kate, who took up her post in the Bristol office last month, will lead on strategy, marketing and communications. Kate has worked with the media, Government, Whitehall and opinion formers for public sector organisations including the British Council...
Bristol’s Oscar winners Wallace & Gromit will be back in their home city today in their latest starring roles – helping boost UK tourism. The Plasticine pair have been signed up by tourist board VisitEngland to front a new campaign to encourage Britons to holiday in their own country...
Seven Bristol firms have lent their hard-earned business insights to a new book aimed at passing down experiences of starting, running and growing creative companies. Called One Thing I Know, it is published by Creative England as a free book and website, and compiles advice from creative entrepreneurs in...
Why are public sector logos (and, by extension, their brands), so awful? The latest Brand Soup blog compares the likes of the Government’s Gangmasters Licensing Authority, Vehicle and Operator Services Agency and Health & Safety Executive with private firms’ logos – and finds them sadly lacking. What should the...
A three-minute film dedicated to championing the unseen work of Bristol’s overnight train cleaning crews secured first prize for emerging filmmakers Bristol Sprout in the third 0117 Hour Digital Short Challenge. The Bristol Sprout team took the £1,000 prize for Behind the Journey, a beautifully-filmed documentary that went behind...
Bristol-based SACO (The Serviced Apartment Company) is to undertake a brand development programme to mark the next stage in its ambitious growth plans. The firm, is one of the world’s leading serviced apartment providers, has appointed Bath branding agency The House following a five-way agency chemistry and brand process...
West charities and not-for-profit organisations could win a year’s digital marketing support worth almost £10,000 in a competition staged by social media marketing company Noisy Little Monkey. Each organisation that enters the aptly-named Big Noise for a Good Cause gets its own ‘page’ on the Noisy Little Monkey website...
