Nottingham is one of those cities where artisitic endeavours seem to thrive, from modern art to website design. Nottingham Trent University has one of the most respected Art and Design faculties in the UK and Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery continually has exhibitions from the world’s most influential artists. Below is a list of just some of what Nottingham has to offer:

Nottingham Contemporary
www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Nottingham Trent University Art and Design
www.ntu.ac.uk/art

University of Nottingham Lakeside Public Arts Centre
www.lakesidearts.org.uk

Art At The Castle
www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2929

Nottingham Art Studio
www.nottinghamartstudio.co.uk

Left Lion
www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/category/Art

The Art Organisation Nottingham
www.taonottingham.co.uk

New Sugar Magazine
newsugar.co.uk

Nottingham Galleries of Justice
www.galleriesofjustice.org.uk

Arts Council East Midlands
www.artscouncil.org.uk/regions/east-midlands

Surface Gallery
www.surfacegallery.org

Gooii Website Design Nottingham
www.gooii.com – But you knew that anyway

The Frame is a short film made by a group of young people from Top Valley, Nottingham. The film about a boy’s love of BMXing was made by 8 teenagers, who received professional guidance from Louise James, presenter for ITV Central.

Produced by the charity Catch22’s Talent Studio Project, in association with the Community Channel, The Frame with be shown on 13th October on the Community Channel at 7.30pm.

To view the film now visit the This Is Nottingham website.

As designers we’re always keen to push web technology further but understand that us having the latest browser doesn’t mean the user does. It’s for these reasons we test all our sites in the lowest common denominator, with additional non-essential features available to those who can view them. IE9 is the last modern browser to the party and we’re looking forward to seeing what it has to offer.

The IE9 beta was released yesterday and I’m itching to get Windows 7 installed on my Mac so I can start testing. I currently have Windows XP installed but IE9 won’t be available for the OS, though it’s probably just as well as my XP test bed has a vanilla copy of IE6 and I wouldn’t want to lose that. Many users are happy with XP and don’t have the need to upgrade or are unable to due to departmental reasons, as designers this means we need to push forward with new technology while ensuring we always support the old.

For more details on why IE9 won’t run on XP visit the Register.

In the South East Capital Radio is as recognised as Radio 1 and Capital’s aim is to increase the brand nationally, as it takes over six regional radio stations including Nottingham’s Trent FM. The takeover is due to take place next year and will replace the Hit Music Network stations Red Dragon, Trent, RAM and Leicester Sound. Trent FM will combine with RAM FM and Leicester Sound to become East Midlands Capital FM, with the station’s head quarters based just up the road from Gooii at the Chapel Quarter in Maid Marian Way.

For more information visit the Guide 2 Nottingham website

The people of Nottingham have been commended for their low car usage and “efficient bus service” reports the BBC. At Gooii we either cycle or use public transport, the bus links are frequent and so conveniently placed that there’s little need to use a car to go into the city, which is an average of 15 mins by bus for most people.

For more on The Campaign for Better Transport visit the BBC News website.

Gabrielle Aplin was the No.1 MySpace unsigned act with over 2.6 million plays on YouTube and the 82nd most subscribed YouTube channel. Now signed to Parlaphone records, Gooii designed the CD cover for her first official release, the ‘Acoustic EP’, using photographs taken by Rankin, one of the world’s leading photographers.

Click here to buy Gabrielle’s new EP on iTunes.

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It’s another exciting day for Apple fans as a slew of new gadgets are released, tempting those crisp notes out of our wallets. There’s a new iPod Touch featuring FaceTime video calling, Retina display and HD video recording, as well as an updated iPod Suffle that allows users to add playlists. The new iPod nano boasts a tiny touch screen that looks very cool indeed and Apple TV has matured into a sleek, miniature device that has HDMI output and allows owners to rent and buy films from iTunes or stream content direct from their computers.

Apple have also updated their touch brand, using a simple but effective multi-coloured finger print design.

For more info on these excellent new products visit the Apple UK website.

The Wilderness Downtown is an interative website by Chris Milk, built entirely in HTML 5 and best viewed in Google Chrome. The site, a collaboration between the Milk, rock band Arcade Fire and Google, has a Donnie Darko feel to it and it’s really inspiring to see a level of creativity usually reserved for the most artistic of music videos.

To view the site visit thewildernessdowntown.com or to experience more adventures in HTML go to chromeexperiments.com

When you work at a top Nottingham website design company how do you unwind at the end of the day. By sitting in front of another screen and pretending you’re a rock star of course. Here at Gooii we’re massive fans of the Rock Band series and are looking forward to Rock Band 3, which sees the introduction of real instruments. As a guitarist this has to be my most anticipated feature; I find that Rock Band on Expert level confuses the hell out of me as I can’t help thinking like a guitar player, not someone pressing buttons on a plastic instrument. Price permitting and if it works with the previous Rock Band tracks I’m in.

One of the best features of the Rock Band series has to be the playlists and IGN have scooped the full line-up of tracks. There’s some absolute classics including Queen, Hendrix, The Who and Whitesnake, though I’m not sure how Amy Winehouse snuck in there. Here’s the full list, broken down by decade:

2000s
Amy Winehouse “Rehab”
At the Drive-In “One Armed Scissor”
Avenged Sevenfold “The Beast & the Harlot”
Dover “King George”
The Bronx “False Alarm”
The Flaming Lips “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1”
HIM (His Infernal Majesty) “Killing Loneliness”
Hypernova “Viva La Resistance”
Ida Maria “Oh My God”
Juanes “Me Enamora”
Metric “Combat Baby”
Paramore “Misery Business”
Phoenix “Lasso”
Poni Hoax “Antibodies”
Pretty Girls Make Graves “Something Bigger Something Brighter”
Queens of the Stone Age “No One Knows”
The Ravonettes “Last Dance”
Rilo Kiley “Portions for Foxes”
Riverboat Gamblers “Don’t Bury Me…I’m Still Not Dead”
Slipknot “Before I Forget”
The Sounds “Living in America”
Tegan & Sara “The Con”
Them Crooked Vultures “Dead End Friends”
Tokio Hotel “Humanoid”
The Vines “Get Free”
The White Stripes “The Hardest Button to Button”

1990s
Faith No More “Midlife Crisis”
Filter “Hey Man Nice Shot”
Jane’s Addiction “Been Caught Stealing”
Man? “Oye Mi Amor”
Marilyn Manson “The Beautiful People”
The Muffs “Outer Space”
Phish “Llama”
Primus “Jerry Was a Racecar Driver”
Rammstein “Du Hast”
Smash Mouth “Walkin’ On The Sun”
Spacehog “In the Meantime”
Stone Temple Pilots “Plush”
Swingin’ Utters “This Bastard’s Life”

1980s
Anthrax “Caught in a Mosh”
Big Country “In a Big Country”
The Cure “Just Like Heaven”
Def Leppard “Foolin'”
Devo “Whip It”
Dio “Rainbow in the Dark”
Dire Straits “Walk of Life”
Echo & the Bunnymen “The Killing Moon”
Huey Lewis and the News “The Power of Love”
INXS “Need You Tonight”
J. Geils Band “Centerfold”
Joan Jett “I Love Rock N’ Roll”
Night Ranger “Sister Christian”
Ozzy Osbourne “Crazy Train”
The Police “Don’t Stand So Close to Me”
Roxette “The Look”
The Smiths “Stop Me if You Think You’ve Heard This One Before”
Tears for Fears “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”
Whitesnake “Here I Go Again”

1970s
The B-52’s “Rock Lobster”
Blondie “Heart of Glass”
Bob Marley “Get Up Stand Up”
Chicago “25 or 6 to 4”
Deep Purple “Smoke on the Water”
Doobie Brothers “China Grove”
Elton John “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting”
Foreigner “Cold As Ice”
Golden Earring “Radar Love”
John Lennon “Imagine”
Lynyrd Skynyrd “Free Bird”
Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated”
Steve Miller Band “Fly Like an Eagle”
T. Rex “20th Century Boy”
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers “I Need to Know”
War “Low Rider”
Warren Zevon “Werewolves of London”
Yes “Roundabout”

1960s
Beach Boys “Good Vibrations (Live)”
David Bowie “Space Oddity”
The Doors “Break on Through (To the Other Side)”
James Brown “I Got You (I Feel Good)”
The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Crosstown Traffic”
The Who “I Can See for Miles”