Before Urbis was lost...

IT WAS CHUFFIN' FABULOUS!

Says I (Sophie)

Like quite a lot of cool kids that have been lucky enough to get to visit The Urbis in Manchester more than one time, I'm really going to miss it. Seeing as there is a group of ass hats somewhere that think a football museum would be an on the whole more worthwhile experience than this literal slice of lovely.

This beaut is The Tiny Travelling Treasury by The Ultimate Holding Company, you are given instructions by way of lucky cat...

and with that you explore the city with the aim of bringing back your hoard to display in the cabinet of wonders.

At every installation I see where the viewer is told to contribute train tickets always seem to be in total abundance, I may start creating dirigible tickets instead.

I'm ashamed to say that I didn't contribute.

scruffy yet effective.

The scale of the whole thing was great but it was a bit of a shame to see that some of the draws where a bit bare, I think with a lot of care, attention and the right sort of contributers over time it would have been really great.

whosits and whatsits.

inspecting more whosits and whatsits.

After delving a bit deeper into The Ultimate Holding Company I found that they do all sorts of fantastic cross disciplinary collaborative business, go check it out...

http://www.uhc.org.uk/index.php

After first finding out about Yoko Ono's 'take a piece of sky' I have coveted a little piece of sky but then again I have always have a soft spot of installations (irrespective of the works standing be it high or low art) where you can contribute or snaffle away a little piece of the work to keep for your own.

'Take a piece of sky': a Yoko Ono installation at the Baltic Centre. Photograph: Colin Davison

And finally... an installation of piles of luggage free for anyone to add their own personal tags to at The Manchester City Gallery, sadly I cannot recall who created it and Google is being no help either but I remember contributing to one of the tags years upon years ago, I don't remember what I wrote for the life of me..

End.

I've been a Stumblin'

Oh how I love Stumble!

I've been on the hunt for some inspiration and have come across so I've had a leetle bundle of leetle design and art goodies!

Teeny tiny design innovation. Business cards look a wee bit better when they're 3D

From Troyka advertising agency

Hello Mr. teeny tiny book ring.

From Ana Cardim

A wonderful little service from Leaf cutter design

Founded in the San Francisco Bay area The World's Smallest Postal Service sends out teeny tiny letters and cards for a mere $8

Glorious don't you agree?

And of course an obligitory mention of these chaps

Slinkachu, Installation and photography work from the London based artist that has recently gained a fair few more fans with the release of a book an a series of exhibitions (which are sadly, mainly in London).

More inspiration will be spilling onto here soon. I (Sophie) may be off too Manchester city art gallery to have a look around a surrealist exhibition I've been wanting to see for a while. I also had a look on The Urbis's website and didn't really find anything that really caught my eye but I'll have an explore anyway, extra art can't hurt.

After again having a nosey around the Manchester Gallery site I found this The Mini Art Club and started getting very excited with images of Synadoche New York style exhibitions only visible with magnifiers. Sadly the mini was in regards to the artists, children (not 'little people') very tempted to still go along...

Wonder if they'd let me in if I said I was pregnant.