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Officially launching in May, SMARTIFY aims to be your personal digital arts curator (think Shazam for the Arts)...we took a look... Art is evocative, thought provoking, and possibly confusing. Some pieces we are happy to just enjoy, but others we want to know more about - more than the little plaque beside it can tell us. Who is/was the artist behind the name? Why did they paint this picture...
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We are loving the look and sound of Museum in a Box - an edtech company from London who are aiming to increase the accessibility of museums and their objects with an innovative interactive handling box. Intrigued? Museum in a Box  - is pretty much just that. It is a box of miniature objects found in museums from around the world that you can have sent to your school, office or to home. Insid...
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Whether you’re a professional artist or are simply more of a doodler, you’ll no doubt get a tad excited at the thought of getting your mitts on a new pen or pencil that you can use to unleash that creativity. Likewise, If your idea of heaven is an afternoon spent browsing in an arts supplies store, then our latest Startup of the Week will be right up your street. ScrawlrBox is a new...
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If you’re an art lover, you may find the process of buying art a tad overwhelming at times. And if you’re an artist, you may often face a challenging time when selling your work. You’ll be glad to hear then that it is these very issues which our latest Startup of the Week is on a mission to address. ArtScope is a new monthly subscription service which enables subscribers to dis...
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If illustration’s your thing, then you might want to put away those pencils and pens, (digital or otherwise) for a few moments and take a read at this. The Association of Illustrators (AOI) and the Directory of Illustration have come together and just launched a fab new international illustration competition - the World Illustration Awards. Yep - this year the AOI are going global! The Awa...
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If you’re the creative type, then the latest Open Call for The Space would be well worth a look. For any of you who may not be aware, The Space is a free online space for artists and audiences from around the world to create and explore exciting new art. Right now they’re on the lookout for projects from artists from a range of industries and sectors - from the creative and digital si...
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Daniel Diaz, new Startacus member and early stage entrepreneur, tells Startacus his exciting plans to develop and launch Fillm, a crowdfunding and discovery platform for independent film...Incidentally if you are going to launch your own crowdfunding campaign, you should check out our free crowdfunding support package!"I have spent the past year working for a leading Digital PR and Commu...
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So here we are folks - the Playable City Awards are back! Following last year’s successful event (which of course Startacus featured) and which was won by Pan Studio with their project ‘Hello Lamp Post’ – submissions for this year are now open. For those who don’t know what they are (where have you been people!?) – the second International Playable City Awards ...
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Since it’s been London Fashion Week (which incidentally ends today) and we like featuring content that is both inspiring, relevant and timely (self promotion done!) we’ve aimed today to  offer up some fashion related shizzle, tailored to that very subject - suits you? But seriously - when we heard about Art on Fashion, the fashion startup, collaborating Art and Fashion into wonde...
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Very soon anybody, anywhere will be able to explore the galleries and art works of Tate Britain in the dead of night with the use of remote controlled robots…my what a time to be alive! In a Terminator meets The Da Vinci Code style move, design studio “The Workers” entered the proposal into the first ever IK Prize which aims to reward and encourage creative talent in the digita...
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