Picture Perfect: Lady Harriet Bridgeman
Founded in 1972 by Lady Harriet Bridgeman, the Bridgeman Library facilitates the legal use of an image for a variety of purposes – its licensing arrangements covering all things from Penguin books to the framed “Waterlilies” seen in Titanic. Lady Bridgeman, who is a Trinity Graduate and one of this year’s recipients of the 2010 Alumni Awards, came up with the idea while in magazine publishing, when she realised the difficulty of getting hold of illustrations in time to meet w
Making the Cityscape New
It’s a grim picture, representative of much of the nation’s main shopping streets at the moment: a cityscape of glass and concrete shells, designed with perpetual earners and spenders in mind, displaying blank nothingness as you pass by, unable to venture through the shop-fronts even just to shelter from the rain. You wander about bored and then angered by all this spatial injustice, when suddenly you catch a glimpse of something in the window. Hang on. Not mannequins this