Let’s have a look at recent book purchases on gaming design: Bang (2016) Picture this: how pictures work Barker, Smith and Attwood (2021) Watching Game of Thrones: how audiences engage with dark television Galuzin...
The shortlists for the 2023 Yoto Carnegie awards, the UK’s oldest book awards for children and young people, have been announced. Celebrating the best in children’s writing and illustration respectively, the Medals are unique...
These resources are really valuable when researching for your assignments. Euromonitor focusses its industry analysis across consumer goods and services, including market performance, market size, company and brand shares and profiles of leading companies and...
Pop along to the library to see our new art books: Baker and Baring (2022) Revisiting modern British art Eshun (2022) In the black fantastic Good (2017) A new dictionary of art: one word...
The Yoto Carnegies 2023 longlist launched this week, with nominations that range from stories of intimate family life to sensitive introductions to societal issues. This is the UK’s longest running book awards for children...
The winner of the 2022 Yoto Kate Greenaway medal is Danica Novgorodoff’s illustrated edition of Jason Reynold’s 2019 book ‘Long Way Down’. This award is judged by children’s librarians for an outstanding book in terms...
Come and explore the new art books we have bought for you! Bailey and Thomson (2021) Liberation begins in the imagination: writings on Caribbean British art Baker and Baring (2022) Revisiting modern British art...
Our Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries Creative Lives talks offer many examples of how creative professionals live, work and thrive in the arts and creative industries. You will gain an insight into the creative...
How are you getting on with using Box of Broadcasts? Isn’t it a brilliant resource?! For anyone who hasn’t discovered it yet, Box of Broadcasts (often know as BoB) is an on-demand TV & radio...
This week we are featuring a key journal in photography – the British Journal of Photography. Journals are an excellent source of research material as they are where you’ll find recently published research and ideas....
This week we are shining a spotlight on resources we have recently purchased for photography: Cook (2020) Instagram rules: the essential guide to building brands, business and community Gunter (2022) Psychology of the selfie:...
This week we are focusing on glass and ceramics books we have recently bought for the library: Eekhout (2022) Glass design innovations in architecture Greenhalgh (2021) Ceramic art and civilisation Skelly (2022) Skin crafts:...
Naomi Austin, one of our Senior Lecturers in Fashion at the University of Sunderland, recommends two of our library databases to her fashion students. “I’d recommend IBISWorld for industry data on the fashion industry...
This week we are highlighting medley of new books bought for the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries! Adams (2020) Graphic design rules: 365 essential design dos and donts Ganzl and Findlay (2022) The...
This week we are highlighting books recently bought for our art collection: Beckman (2022) New arts entrepreneur: navigating the arts ecologies Garrido Castellano (2021) Art activism for an anticolonial future Martinez (2022) Ethnographic experiments...
