Vogue's Fashion Fund Winner

JONATHAN SAUNDERS is the winner of 2012 BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund.
The Scottish designer will receive a £200,000 cash prize, as a bespoke mentoring programme which will help him to achieve his business goals over the next 12 months.
Saunders faced stiff competition for the award, names as Peter Pilotto, Mary Katrantzou, Richard Nicoll, Roksanda llincic, Marios Schwab, Zoe Jordan and Meadham Kirchhoff,  Nicholas Kirkwood
All nine of the shortlisted designers were invited to meet the fund's judging panel, chaired by Alexandra Shulman, and present their latest collections, as well as their business proposals.
Saunders first began his fashion career at Glasgow College of Art, before continuing his studies at Central Saint Martins - where he graduated in 2002 with a MA distinction in Fashion Textiles. In 2006, he won the BFC's British Enterprise award and since then his clothes can be seen on the front row each season, with shoppers vying to buy his printed, colourful and wearable designs.

Copenhagen DINING WEEK 2O12

The best restaurants in Copenhagen present three-course menus for 200kr (26.90e) Visit www.diningweek.dk for a list of participating venues.

Copenhagen Food Magazine has gathered together a wide selection of Copenhagen's best restaurants and has asked them to create a fixed 3-course menu to be offered each evening in an event called Copenhagen Dining Week.

During Copenhagen Dining Week, Copenhagen Food offers an opportunity to experience a variety of great restaurants for a fair price. The special set menus will cost 200 kr. per person including San Pellegrino water. Each restaurant has been specifically chosen to showcase the variety of great value food in Copenhagen, but above all, because of its quality.

There are a limited number of seats in each restaurant and tickets must be booked and paid for in advance.

For reservations click: www.diningweek.dk

Winter Pudding Bombe

Shortly before Christmas, while everyone is locked in the kitchens and prepare for the feast, the little elves of the DF365 sneak in Jamie Oliver's festive web site and steal one of the best recipes for holidays!

Diego Rivera

125th Anniversary of Birth 1886-1957

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL9JLugE8s8

"Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake Sculpture"

Luke Jerram's multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations, live arts projects and gifts. Living in the UK but working internationally since his career began in 1997, Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the globe

Almost eight months since the massive 9.0 Tōhoku earthquake hit Japan Luke creates the

"Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake Sculpture".
The artwork measures 30cm x 20cm and represents 9 minutes of the earthquake.  He constructed the piece by taking the design from a nine minute span of seismometer data from the earthquake and creating a 3D image with a computer aided design program. Then he printed the design using a rapid prototyping machine. The sculpture will be presented at the Jerwood Space in London for a show called Terra. Exploring how data is read and can be represented and interpreted, the artwork is one of a series of data visualization sculptures Jerram has recently created. Next month Jerram will be artist in residence at the
Museum of Glass in Washington where he hopes to create this work as a limited edition in glass.

Home dressed from SS2012 catwalks

Explore the ss2012 catwalks and decorate. Enjoy just a small piece of inspiration from 7 shows and find ways to adjust the style to fabrics, pillows flooring and everything.

Dream Big by Pete Fecteau

Pete Fecteau is a designer by day. He attended Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan and attained his BFA in Digital Media Design in 2007. His design portfolio can be seen at http://buttonpresser.com. He mainly works as an interactive designer and helps build online and mobile experiences. Pete also loves illustration, painting, and sculpture and finds time between work to create more traditional art aside for his Rubik's Cube mosaics. His wife Caitlin and he were married on August 27th, 2011 in Brighton, Michigan they both relocated to San Francisco in January, 2011 were Pete had been awarded a fellowship with Code for America.
Upon graduating college, Fecteau accepted a position as design integrator at Spout.com, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Spout.com was later sold and the group became Pomegranite Studios. Pomegranite Studios, owned by Rick Devos (son of Amway co-founder Dick Devos), created ArtPrize, the world's largest art competition. ArtPrize's inaugural year in 2009 drew 1,262 artists and Fecteau, having history with the organization and a deep-seeded interest in art decided to volunteer his time helping with registration of voters and artists. Fecteau knew that he would want to compete in the 2010 competition but was failing to find a competitive concept. During the time he was volunteering, Fecteau went home to sleep and had a dream where he was using Rubik's Cube to create something. Pete had been solving the Rubik's Cube as a hobby since his time at Spout.com. Upon waking up, Fecteau set to document the idea and brainstorm other areas of the concept to make it well-rounded.
The mosaic is made of 4,242 officially licensed Rubik's Cubes. It measures 19 'x 8'6 "x 2.25" (5.8mx 2.6mx 5.7cm). It weighs roughly 1000 pounds (454kg). Each cube has been "reversed solved" or twisted so that one of the faces maps it's nine stickers into the total image, 38,178 stickers total. The construction process took a little over 40 hours and the final installation to about five and a half hours with 6 volunteers helping. The cubes were rented through the You Can Do The Cube organization. The mosaic was on display during the 2010 ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan USA from September 22nd to October 10th. There were roughly 30,000 people who came to view the mosaic during that time. "Dream Big" placed in the top 50 out of 1,700 + entries. The mosaic was left intact for a month after the competition in an attempt to sell it. The pending sale did not materialize and the mosaic was disassembled in late November and the cubes were shipped back to their originating points.