Ka-pow! Manchester Comic Con sidekick ‘Mancstercon’ helps city take on London in geek capital battle
Manchester comic scene aims to take on London as new convention celebrates ‘sequential art’ focusing on comics, animation and manga.
Icky thump! Manchester artist Stanley Chow on going from ‘anonymous illustrator’ to drawing for Hollywood
Grammy-nominated Manchester illustrator Stanley Chow has his exhibition ‘The Takeaway’ at Manchester’s Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art
Rhythm of the night: Northern Quarter After Dark promises to ‘wow’ with After Hours festival
Mancunians will be getting ready for a night of nocturnal partying and festival atmosphere as the city celebrates the best of its culture in the Northern Quarter with the Manchester After Hours event.
A new leaf: Strip of 80 trees from Piccadilly through Northern Quarter will ‘transform’ Manchester
A New Leaf MCR held their first fundraising exhibition last night in order to raise funds to plant more trees across Manchester city centre
Earth Hour 2014: Bolton art student’s poster wins nationwide competition to ‘let the stars light the night’
Earth Hour, an international grassroots movement to switch off non-essential lights for one hour, takes place March 29
Don’t pinch yourself, it’s real: Giant peg art installation lands at The Lawns in Spinningfields
Giant peg ‘pinching’ the turf in Manchester’s Spinningfields is art installation by Altrincham-based designers Custom Landscape Designs
A rich tapestry: Manchester Craft Centre collects ‘January Tales’ of past, from fish market to Tony Wilson
Artists and customers from centre sharing memories
Polystyrene home planned for Hale – but is it wonder building material or just nightmare to hoover?
Hale design company building sixth polystyrene house
Hive Haus: The future of housing? Wigan builder creates innovative alternative to high cost homes
Barry Jackson appeared on Channel 4’s ‘Amazing Spaces’
Feel the chill in Manchester: Stunning Antarctica exhibition at MOSI explores life in extreme environments
MOSI is hosting Ice Lab: New Architecture and Science in Antarctica
Ribena gets added dose of ‘Bury’: Local family win competition to redesign 75th anniversary bottle
This is the first time Ribena have redesigned the bottle