WWF: A new, green file format

What a fantastic idea! The World Wildlife Fund is promoting a new file format that prevents the file being printed out - saving trees!

Just download the software and you can start creating WWF files too.

WWF files can be opened by most software that can open PDF files making it very accessible. Watch the video to learn all about it.

Google Art Project

Described by Google as 'A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail', the Google Art project really does have the potential to deliver a widely accessible experience of the world's most well known museums.

Whilst it will never replace a visit in person - the value of seeing art, it's scale and presence in a setting is uniquely informative - the 'street view' experience should draw in a wide range of people of all ages, internationally, to view art work, see the buildings that house some to the best art collections in the world, and should hopefully result in a wider appreciation of the arts and the value it brings.

Current partners of the project are:

* Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Germany
* Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC - USA
* The Frick Collection, NYC - USA
* Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Germany
* The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC - USA
* MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC - USA
* Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid - Spain
* Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid - Spain
* Museum Kampa, Prague - Czech Republic
* National Gallery, London - UK
* Palace of Versailles - France
* Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands
* The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg - Russia
* State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - Russia
* Tate Britain, London - UK
* Uffizi Gallery, Florence - Italy
* Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands

It's worth spending a little time to explore this treasure trove for yourself.

Visit the Google Arts Project.

Ben Murphy at The Lowry Outlet Mall

Talented artist Ben Murphy has created this fantastic illustration from tape on a shop unit window at the Lowry Outlet Mall.

Ben, a current student on the MA Contemporary Fine Art masters programme has a brilliant website chronicling his work - I particularly like Albert the Reindeer.