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Cindy Sherman Print Sells For $3.9 Million At Auction, The Highest Ever For A Photograph

At last night's auction at Christie's, Cindy Sherman's 'Untitled #96' blew past all previous photography records

Photo: Cindy Sherman

Christie's had a bumper night, tallying more than $300 million in sales. While not the priciest item up for auction that day, Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #96" from 1981 passed all records for photography, and was sold for $3.89 million.

Snow Days

Well what a week, so many of us have been snowed in, including me. Don't panic though I have still been able to access your competition entries and are currently putting up the latest competition.

A few of you have sent in your winter scenes:

  © By Hayley
  © By Hayley

                       By Clare

 

  © Vic

Feel free to email your photos to Vic vlem2@hallmark-uk.com

Take care out there and have a great weekend!

Your Green Idea

M&S have recently launched a new competition to help promote green issues across the nation.

They are asking for ideas to make the way we shop better and more efficient and if your idea wins your favourite organisation could win £100, 00 to spend on its green initiative.

Make sure you check it out here.

Red Nose Day

Don't forget today is Comic Relief- Red Nose Day.

"Red Nose Day is, quite simply, a day like no other! We take some fantastic fund-raising in schools, offices and homes across the land, mix it with the nation’s favourite celebrities getting up to all kinds of mischief, sprinkle a new Red Nose (or three!) across the entire UK and add a cracking night of comedy on BBC One to make Red Nose Day the phenomenon it is.

All this funny business unites the nation in trying to make a difference to the lives of thousands of people – and the best thing is - it works!

This year, to be part of Red Nose Day 2009, you just need to Do Something Funny for Money!"

We hope everyone has a great day whatever you choose to do to contribute, here at Tigerprint there will be fancy dress and cake sales galore (Yum).

Knitters turn to graffiti artists with "yarnbombing"

A new craze sweeping the world involves knitters creating huge wool creations to cover public property such as trees and signs etc.

They then take photos of their colourful "art" and post them on internet sites for fellow knitters to view and comment on.

One of the most ambitious pieces of work saw a woman spend an entire week covering a disused single decker bus in colourful swatches.

The phenomenon, called Yarnbombing, is thought to have originated in the US but knitters are now beginning to cover British streets in woollen 'tags'.

Quite often dozens of balls of coloured wool are used to make huge sleeves or cosies which are then stitched onto a fixed object, sometimes done under the cover of darkness.

Artist Sarah Hardacre, 31, from Salford, Manchester, says: "Yarnbombing is all about using the street for making art.

"I have knitted cosies for trees and even covered an entire garden shed in knitted squares before – it certainly put smiles on peoples faces.

"It is about the community taking pride in their surroundings and making it look nice and colourful.

"Yarnbombing is easy to do and can catch the imagination and creativity of so many people."

Read the full article here.

Tigerprint 2nd Competition Result!

This months winner is Charlotte from a total of 108 entries. A recent design graduate we loved Charlotte's use of wit and illustration in her design. The general feeling was that it offered a new, fresh perspective on the wedding range. Charlotte is to have a meeting with our creative director to look at potential future freelance work.