Hi there Collective fans!

We are happy to announce we now have over 100 articles on the blog about Brighton Designers and Events. We would like to thank all the contributors past and present for thier hard work in getting this Blog of the ground. Next year will be a big year for The Brighton Collective as we start to organise our own Events with the Designers featured on the showcase site here.

There is still room for more Designers and if you make your own products and would like to join the Collective pop over to our registration page and hop on board. More info and our FAQ can be found here.

Once again thanks to everyone who has helped us get to where we are today and over the next few months we should see The Brighton Collective burst onto the Brighton Scene and become a force in the creative arena of Brighton and the UK.

Spindle magazine is a new, free quarterly showing off the best up-and-coming talent in fashion, art and music. Launched in May, the Brighton-based, nationally distributed magazine is the brainchild of Heather Falconer, who thought a magazine like Spindle, with glossy, brilliantly composed photo shoots that place it head and shoulders above other free magazines, ‘just seemed needed’.

Refusing all PR photos, listings and reviews, Spindle’s pages are well thought out and beautifully shot, proving the designers featured are talented individuals keen to show off the best of their work. In issue one, currently available across Brighton and the UK, we see Alis Pelleschi, Yeasayer and Bombay Bicycle Club amongst other artists. Issue two will be out in September.

Spindle’s launch party at Madame Geisha was a fantastic evening of art and fashion. Heather, Spindle’s editor, is continuing its success with a monthly fashion party, Rack and Ruin, in association with the Laden Showrooms (also to be held at Madam Geisha). Featuring sample sales from local and international designers, fashion shows, and collection previews, Rack and Ruin is not to be missed. Along with Spindle, it is sure to become a fixture on the Brighton fashion scene.

Pick up your copy of Spindle from Madam Geisha, The Duke of York’s, Komedia, Resident Records and various other locations. For a full list of stockists visit the Spindle website.

Written by Amy Sandiford-Watts

The Artists Residence, previously featured on The Brighton Collective, dropped us an email this month to let us know about their upcoming exhibition ‘In The Water I Am…’, featuring a collection of photography and creative writing from Canadian artist Stephanie Coffey.

Through her photography and writing Coffey is hoping to explore water, the life-giving element that sustains us and makes up over half our bodies – but which also holds the power to destroy. Get down to the Artists Residence, Regency Square, Brighton to ponder the questions raised by Coffey’s work.

Private view 30 July 2010, 6PM – 9PM. Free admission.