Apparently every year the Visual Communication degree course holds a money raising event for charity every year. There were some awesome ideas such as the traditional baking cupcakes, lucky dips and such but with a twist. To get a cupcake you had to guess the typeface, or you could challenge the VisCom team in Call of Duty 6, buy a handmade ashtray made out of drinks cans, make the longest swear word of of some given letters or simply watch two people squirt reddened water at each other. The cupcakes were nice, and I bought this handmade wrapping paper for 30p I thought i'd share with you.

I think I would definitely call this catering for a niche market. People who like beards, have a look if you haven't seen. By Erin Dollar @ Beards.

Whilst in Manchester I forgot I took these pictures of the Manchester Craft Centre and The Richard Goodall Gallery. Both definitely inspiring, the Goodall Gallery with screen printing loveliness on every wall in sight and the craft centre full of small designers making some beautiful craftiness from cards to leather bags and you have to check out the knitted railing.