Hats and Tales and Illustration

While at the launch of the new A Book of Hats and Tales, Corridor met with Jan Irvine who was capturing the live event with paper and charcoal. Our very own Inky would have been right at home...

Creative Review

This months Creative Review has a 4 page piece about our work with over 150 people from the city of Brighton and Hove. The opening image was photographed by our very own Stephen Cummiskey, who captured the whole process over 12 months.

The CR Photography Annual is full of some great articles and wonderful imagery.

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Corridor attends Qubique in Berlin

It was great to attend Qubique last week in Berlin. An amazing space at the Templehof Airport had been transformed with some great workshops showcasing wallpaper manufacture to Thonet's classic wood steam bending machines and formers. Corridor met some new manufacturers and some new designers who we hope to be working with in the near future.

Corridor talks in Brazil

While on a flying visit to Rio at the start of last month, we caught up with a school of talented young people who live in the favelas around the city, and showed them the projects we'd like to partner with them on. The Corridor team will be working with them in the coming months. More to follow.

Youth Centre images

90 mins and 79 people, it wasn't easy trust us!

We had fun and the end result has made a huge difference to the centre. Part 2 coming in the next few weeks. Before 90 minutes and after of the Social Room for young teenage girls.

Brighton Youth Centre

Corridor had a great day working with Albion in the Community and Amex staff from across the South East today, transforming three rooms at the youth centre.

The football theme of a 90 minute makeover was great fun, a bit manic at points, with over 80 people participating, but we all achieved a great transformation for the young people using the centre. The two halves, two teams made light work of each room with decorating, painting and styling of each room to happen within the 45 minute sessions. A meeting room, social room and art room looked amazing. More images to follow soon.

Peter Ward finds his hair.

Corridor was sent this image early today. Not the best angle but it shows 70's Albion ace Peter Ward with illustrated hair. Peter is standing in front of one of the Screen Heroes images we created with City College Brighton and Hove and 11 students. The image is of Peter's hairdo back in 1970, and as you can see it's a perfect fit!

Braille Football

Corridor has been working with some inspiring young VI football players with Charlie Curry at AITC, over the past 6 months.

We used the inspiration of football studs to create these dynamic braille poems for the East Stand concourse at The Amex. All 5 pieces will be on permanent display for the game on 30th August against Spurs.

Respect Shirts

We have almost finished the 12 Respect Shirts we created with the Brighton and Hove Albion team and 12 local Primary schools across the city. Each player partnered with a school and exchanged life stories to create a piece of art based on shared experiences and an understanding of different cultures. The half shirts are based on the club and players country of origin. All 12 Respect Shirts will be on permanent display for the next game against Spurs in the East Stand.

Memory Wall

First batch of memories we designed for the memory wall in the North Stand. A series of modular vinyls, that will be applied directly to the concrete interior walls of the concourses. We've got a couple of Albion greats lined up with their own personal memories of their time at Brighton. We've also been asking the fans from across Sussex to send us images and stories from the clubs past. All will be revealed at the next game against Spurs on July 30th.

Collecting the Respect Shirts

Another balmy June day, saw the Corridor team race around Brighton to collect the 12 Respect Shirts from 12 Brighton and Hove primary schools. While the weather was not on our side, we had fun catching up with some of the children and teachers behind the pieces of artwork.

With thanks to Graham Hicks from VaNJaM for his help with carefully packing and collecting all the artwork today.

JBPR + Corridor

Corridor is proud to be partnering with Jo Brooks PR in Brighton. As we reach the final stages of our Amex Stadium project we have been looking for a smart communication team to help amplify the work over the past 10months. We look forward to working with Jo and her team.

Scarf it up

We love a bit of applique, so thoughts early this year turned to recreating a social scarf made up of some classic old Albion names from players past and present. Soon to be displayed at the new Amex Stadium we are almost nearing the end of several social design programs Corridor have designed for the city over the past 10 months.

Screen Printing Workshop

Corridor invited students from City College Brighton and Hove to see how digital and screen prints are made. The students are overseeing the final set of prints for one of our projects. Each of them has been working hard for the past 10 weeks. The students not only set up the files ready for the print house, but were shown how to separate layers and adjust colours, and helped prep screens and hand print on to A1 stock. Tea was also served.

Hawks FC

Corridor is proud to be sponsoring the Hawks FC Awards this coming Saturday for the end of year presentations. We love the tee with our logo. Thanks to Ryan at Dockerills

My Shot kicks off

A great weekend for the Corridor team. We kicked it off with awarding our under 16 photography competition winners with a digital Nikon camera each. The competition entitled 'My Shot' offered the chance to not only win a camera, but be mentored at several Sussex wide sporting events in the coming weeks. Today our first winner headed out to sea with Brighton Sailing Club. A big thank you to Jim and the team for looking after us so very well.

The images taken by our 'My Shot' winners will be part of Corridor's work in the East Stand at the new American Express Community Stadium.

Seagulls

Corridor went to see how the new American Express Community Stadium was looking.

Think when the first game kicks off this Aug most grown men won't have a dry eye.

Been a long time coming for the faithful.

Our projects in both the North and East stands are in production. We are so proud of the people participating with us.

More to follow.

Screen Heroes

Corridor is working with 11 foundation students at Brighton's City College to design a series of bespoke screen prints of some of the Albions football legends.
Working across each decade since 1901, the team has been using a variety of techniques to bring to life 11 very different expressions of each player. The final results will be on show at the new Amex Stadium later this year.

Negative Space

Corridor likes to challenge the way we gather our collective in different spaces. We have long asked why couldn't we use existing negative spaces in office buildings to better effect for communal thinking and ideas. We are pleased that American Express agrees with our way of thinking, and has kindly donated rooms at both their Brighton sites for Corridor to play in. We are in the process of inviting the collective and community based groups to participate in a series of creative sessions to bring to life our ideas and designs for the new football stadium.

We'll keep you up to speed with our progress.

Corridor attends TEDxBrighton

Was great to be part of the first TEDx series to be held in Brighton yesterday. Corridor caught up with a bunch of people and listened to some enlightened talks about a range of topics. Our favourite was Sarah Angliss who merged industrial mills with clogs, dance, onstage music and wit.

Pro Bush identity

Corridor has been working closely with Lorna Love from Pro Bush. We've just sent over this cheeky identity for the coming series of cultural events and exhibitions we will be hosting and curating with Lorna.

The American Express Community Stadium

Corridor are pleased to announce another win. This time we've been awarded the interior design of both the North and East Stand concourses at the new Brighton and Hove Albion Football Stadium. Due to open this coming August to the cheers of over 22,500 excited faces at Falmer, we will be working with a cross section of the public to help bring to life some amazing ideas and spaces. We'll keep you up to speed on our progress. Well done to the Corridor team who collaborated on the proposal.