We thought you might like a preview of the new Activity sheet we designed for Kids in Museums. Five hundred of these sheets, containing spaces for drawing and writing, are destined for the winner of The Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award 2009. It will be interesting for us to see what kinds of projects the museum or gallery uses the sheets for, and fun to see how the kids interact with them. The Activity sheet is smaller in size than our Drawing sheets and Writing sheets, but still contains enough space to make some really big scribblings!

Read more about the award, and more, on Culture24.

We have just taken delivery of our 2010 year-to-view planners!

Thay are now available from our online shop or if you are in London… swing by Magma Books and buy one from them.

We are currently producing an exhibition publication with Fieldwork Folio – the large-scale mapping project uses our new Foldedsheet poster format. More details will be released soon, but in the meantime… here is a sneak preview of the cover.

Coming soon…

Our 2010 planner is now in production and we thought you might like a sneak preview of the cover.

Planners will be available from mid-November (keep a look out for them in our online shop – link is to the left).

21,000 students get organised this year with the Foldedsheet LearnHigher academic year planners 2009/10.

Funded by participating universities, these planners are given away free to students at the beginning of the academic year… so good luck with the new term and hope you all enjoy using your planners!

For more details, check out the link on the left to our Tumblr archive.

The exhibition Postcards from Canvey Island is a showcase of work created during Vanessa Rolf’s residency at Cornelius Vermuyden School, Essex. The exhibition will include maps and drawings by students from the four Canvey Island schools involved in the project. “I hope to get a chance to use the drawing sheets again in the future – the kids loved working on them“.

For more information about the project visit Postcards from Canvey Island or the Canvey Island Archive.

© Vanessa Rolf

Exhibition: 6th – 12th October 2009 (by appointment).

Location: Karslake Gallery, Cornelius Vermuyden School and Specialist Arts College, Dinant Avenue, Canvey Island, Essex, SS8 9QS.
Tel: (01268) 685011

For travel to Canvey Island from London take the train to Benfleet from Fenchurch Street or Barking. Buses to the Island leave from outside the train station, or it is approximately a 20 minutes walk.

Vanessa Rolf

The CfD are celebrating their 10th birthday this year, with a packed programme of fantastic events – check out details of their exhibition Now We Are Ten!

We think they are great and wish them continued success in all their activities!

We have confirmed orders from eleven universities for the 2009/10 LearnHigher academic year planners (layouts will be available on our Tumblr resource soon).

Aston University
University of Bournemouth
University of Brighton
Brunel University
University of Glamorgan
University of Leeds
Liverpool Hope University
London Metropolitan University
Nottingham Trent University
University of Reading
University of Surrey

In the next academic year, over 21,000 students will be managing their time effectively at university!

Vanessa Rolf is an artist in residence working with several schools in Canvey Island, Essex. The project involves exploring the island through maps and drawing, Vanessa will be using 100 of our drawing sheets throughout the project.

Correspondence from Vanessa:
“Canvey Island is an interesting area, it is at great risk of flooding as it sits lower than sea level, it has amazing salt marshes and a nature reserve that is home to the most diverse population of insects in Western Europe and many rare and endangered species as well as having some great faded amusement arcades.”

“There is a blog for the project, currently it is a collection of images that I am gathering from my explorings.” Postcards From Canvey Island

Feedback from Vanessa:
“We worked with the drawing sheets yesterday and they were fantastic – the kids loved them!”

The template for the LearnHigher planner has now been finalised – for more details click on the LearnHigher page (located in the title bar above).