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Creators of extraordinary books.

England, United Kingdom
Joined April 2015
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So much is happening in this picture. 🧶📘 It shows the story of how two friends created a platform that launched twenty new artists @formatfestival this weekend. I’m so proud of the work @MirandaGavin and I are doing with gaslightingart.com. 💕
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📣 Meet the winners of @innovateuk’s #WomenInInnovation Awards 2022/23 who are making the world a better place. Find out more about these trailblazing women; each awarded a £50K grant, 1:1 business coaching & so much more: bit.ly/3JmyU33 #WomenInnovate #InnovateUKEDGE
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Happy International Women’s Day! Delighted to be spending it with @innovateuk #womenininnovation. A hugely talented group of amazing women. 👏🏻
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Morning y'all thanks to @duckrabbitblog for recommending an outstanding body of work with us yesterday. #womenwednesday is dedicated to that work. Take a look at #gaslightingart to see some of the art in this. Co-founder: @MirandaGavin Exhibition: seasbrighton.org/gaslight B x
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“Is your idea for social good? Are you using your creativity to improve the world around you?” says @vikabooks, Founder of Baby BSL: Where is the Bird? Read how she’s using AR for good and her plans to use D&AD's Impact Fund grant to develop her project🎉: bit.ly/3EQq6QP
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Bristol-based publisher @vikabooks has been awarded the prestigious Design and Art Direction Impact Fund to expand its pioneering AR ‘buggy books' 📚 Learn more about the fund, Founder @victoria4rest, and buggy books 👇 #InclusionMonth #AR #immersive hubs.li/Q01rChvH0
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Bristol-based @vikabooks - founded by award-winning designer @victoria4rest creates tech-driven books that work in tandem with a smartphone app. business-live.co.uk/technolo…
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Amazing achievement from @BenAkers, my @dandad mentor and local lifesaver-in-chief. @TalkClubUK is a mental fitness club for men. #WorldMentalHealthDay
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It’s important to remember the skilled artform and #legacy #photography is. Guy Bellingham #FRPS recreated the right lens and lighting of a series 1930s family portraits that hang in our home. Precious work indeed. 🙏🏻
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"It shows how much work the publishing industry needs to do before it can truly consider itself fully inclusive", @victoria4rest speaks on true inclusion, saying that the deaf community must not be excluded from mainstream publishing in Signs of progress: bit.ly/37NbaEN
Really proud to receive this support from my school. I owe my education—and everything that has come from it—to the generosity of this charitable foundation. It's wonderful to start to give back. #christshospital
Old Blue Victoria Forrest (Col.A) is a winner of Innovate UK’s prestigious Women in Innovation Award. Victoria's book ‘Where is the bird?’ is the first augmented reality book to inspire the use of British Sign Language amongst families. Read more: babybsl.com
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A huge thank you @InnovateUK for giving me the honour of being a Women in Innovation Ambassador. Really looking forward to the next year and the change we can make through this powerful network. #WomenInBusiness #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2022
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👏👏👏 Phillipa Doyle of sustainable breastfeeding clothing brand @theBshirt, #AR book designer Victoria Forrest of @vikabooks & Ali Gordon, creator of @eat_round, a local dining app which incentivises diners to help their local hospitality economy. #IWD2022
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GASLIGHTING ART LAUNCHES GLOBAL WEBSITE ON DOMESTIC ABUSE WITH A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Do you, or someone you know, have work on this theme? Pls share gaslightingart.com curatorspace.com/opportuniti… #domesticabuse #Gaslighting #gaslightingart #submissions #16DaysofActivism #16Days
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The wonderful documentary photography show #beyondtheframe is on at @bristolmuseum, as part of @BRSphotofest. This collection shows why I love designing photobooks. Go if you can!
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Inspirational day at the @BRSphotofest @The_RPS inclusion symposium today. Amazing talks showcasing diversity from ethnicity, to physical differences, class, and gender. Here Kirsty MacKay and THE photoladies. This is the future! #affermativeaction 🕊
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📨Did you get our May newsletter in your inbox this morning? Lots of interesting ideas, research & opportunities from @bpi_music @vikabooks @DigiCatapult @youngvictheatre @flipbookstudio @UoE_EFI @innovateuk @culturegeek + more Take a look: us17.campaign-archive.com/?u…
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“This beautiful fellow with the billowing mind of the little man in the ground. Formulated views we could barely read let alone comprehend, he was leading the way for us all to follow.” Ann Doherty. RIP our dear friend Tim Hetherington, 1970-2011. bit.ly/34TRda6
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