Alastair Humphreys – There Are Other Rivers

foldedsheet — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:46:10 +0000

We have just produced a double-sided full-colour sheet for explorer Alastair Humphreys – he may be a well-seasoned traveller, but this is the first mappazine Alastair has commissioned…

There Are Other Rivers: One Day on the Road/On Foot in India is a photographic journey interspersed with insights and thoughts. Alastair Humphreys walked across southern India, following a holy river from the ocean to its source and then down to the other coast. Travelling alone, immersing himself in fresh experiences, the adventure provided time to reflect on his long fascination with the open road. Humphreys explores two different themes: the allure of difficult journeys and the repeating rhythm of each individual day.

A longer version of There Are Other Rivers is available as a print book and a Kindle eBook.

side 1 One Day on the Road

side 2 On Foot in India

The mappazine is available to buy directly from Alastair’s website.

Alastair has been named as one of the National Geographic Adventurers of the Year 2012 – read more about it here.

Explore 2011 – Royal Geographical Society

foldedsheet — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:06:22 +0000

Every year for the past five years, we have sponsored the expeditions and fieldwork planning event Explore, held annually at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) with our Foldedsheet year-to-view planners. This year we were asked to run the Communicating Your Discoveries advice desks in the Education Centre at the society, and gathered together over twenty explorers during the weekend to advise delegates on how to communicate their discoveries before, during and after their expeditions.

We showed a range of Foldedsheets – the mappazines Ken360 and PROfile in addition to Confluences from the Editions series. Emily Penn brought some of her brilliant expedition sketchbooks, Andy Welch brought his Wandermap work, and among other books we showed Arita Baaijens’ very lovely Desert Songs. We also had access to the data-projector, where we were able to show examples of websites, blogs and tweets. The main advice desk contributors were: Luce Choules, Emily Penn, Andy Welch, Jamie Buchanan-Dunlop, Geordie Torr, Al Humphreys, Tom Kevill-Davies, Tom Allen and Tim Moss. Speakers taking part in the main lecture programme and workshops over the weekend also gathered around the desks to share their experience in photography, writing and various forms of social media. It was a fantastic weekend – the best in the five years we have been there – Digital Explorer Jamie Buchanan-Dunlop summed up the event in his recent post here.

“The reporting back is essential. Whatever you do, there’s no point in doing something just for yourself… the world isn’t a playground any longer, we can’t afford to just do our own thing. Not really.” Benedict Allen.

Year planner 2012

foldedsheet — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:53:05 +0000

If you are like us and have lots of stuff booked in for next year already, then we have some good news… our 2012 year-to-view planner has arrived! Check out our shop site to buy it online.

year-to-view 2012 stocked by Magma Books
www.magmabooks.com

Thinking Through Drawing symposium NY

foldedsheet — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:06:39 +0000

A big box of our Foldedsheets are travelling to New York next week to the Thinking Through Drawing interdisciplinary symposium at Teachers College Columbia University in New York on the 28–29th October 2011. Drawing sheets will be used in the practical workshops, and Storyboard sheets are included in the delegate’s packs for artists, scientists and academics to make notes and drawings on during the symposium.

“This two day interdisciplinary symposium brings together artists, cognitive scientists and art educators to consider the relationships between drawing and cognition. Researchers across geographical and disciplinary borders will address how recent findings from cognitive psychology and neurosciences can inform arts education, with a particular emphasis on drawing. The symposium will offer a rare opportunity for academics from drawing research, psychology, neuroscience, computer science and art education to present and discuss the relevance of their research findings to each others’ research and practice.

This symposium grew out of discussions on drawing and cognition, which began at the Drawing Research Network’s 2010 conference, between Angela Brew (UAL), Michelle Fava (Loughborough), and Andrea Kantrowitz (Teachers College).”

We ran a practical workshop at the Drawing Research Network conference in Brighton last year using our Drawing sheets (more info here), which allowed participants to discover the potential of mapping their projects, thoughts and ideas on these large-format sheets.

Modern Art Oxford event

foldedsheet — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:07:26 +0000

Sarah Plumb, Project Manager: Learning and Partnerships at Modern Art Oxford, used a Giant Foldedsheet over the weekend in the gallery’s ‘Mapping Memory’ event…

“The Big Draw event was very successful with over 40 people attending between 12-4pm. The paper worked fantastically well in the space and during the workshop, led by artist Bram Arnold.”

The gallery’s event was part of the Campaign for Drawing’s ‘Big Draw 2011′. Inspired by the Kerry Tribe and Abraham Cruzvillegas exhibitions, the event encouraged participants to create a giant map of Oxford from memory.

Participants get busy mapping in the Learning Room… see more images from the day here.

We have a limited number of the Giant Foldedsheets – please get in touch if you wish to order one from us directly.

Dovertime

foldedsheet — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:20:06 +0000

Lucy Steggals has been using our Storyboard sheets for the film project Dovertime. The sheets were used to storyboard elements of the film which were made over several episodes.

One sheet was also used inside Nicole Mollett’s airstream Cultural Baton, for comments and feedback from Dovertime participants and the audience at the special preview screening event, shown on the BBC Live Screen in the market square Dover on Saturday 17th September.

Throughout the project, other Foldedsheets were used for planning and drawing.

Academic year planner 2011/12

foldedsheet — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:25:24 +0000

Again this year, universities shared a print run of the LearnHigher Generic academic year planner 2011/12. For all those who are not studying at the universities who ordered them… we had some extras printed and have added them to our online shop.

LH academic planner 2011/12

foldedsheet — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:01:44 +0000

We have confirmed orders from five universities for the 2011/12 LearnHigher academic year planners (layouts are on our Tumblr resource).

Aston University
Brunel University
De Montfort University
Nottingham Trent University
University of Reading

In the next academic year, nearly 7,000 students will be managing their time effectively at university!

Mansfield Museum event

foldedsheet — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:04:03 +0000

Jodie Henshaw, Development Officer at Mansfield Museum, has just returned from a Sure Start Family Open Day where they used their Giant Foldedsheet today…

“This took place on a very sunny school field in the heart of Mansfield. I took the folded piece of paper with me and invited the families to add themselves to the paper to create a giant mural. The kids had a wonderful time, drawing, cutting and sticking!”

The event was part of the museum’s ‘Mega Mural’ in National Families Week.

Here are the first kids to arrive on the scene…

We have a limited number of the Giant Foldedsheets – please get in touch if you wish to order one from us directly.

Storyboard sheet

foldedsheet — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:07:48 +0000

We have added another notemap to our range – the Storyboard sheet. This has 60 generously-sized frames arranged over a sheet nearly a metre wide and tall – a welcome addition to the Drawing, Writing and Planning sheets.

Here’s a preview of the layout…

…and we just updated it on our online shop.