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Comment by Frank Collins on May 13, 2010 at 4:58pm

Liverpool Design Festival

The Design Show: 19th – 21st November 2010

CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Call For Entries application pack can be downloaded from HERE

Alternatively, if you want a pack emailing to you please email Frank Collins with your contact details and the pack will be emailed or posted to you.

Our standard exhibition shell schemes, complete with power, lighting and name board, at 3m x 1m will be available and you’ll be able to purchase additional square metres to create bigger stands. We can also offer you a space only option allowing you to create and install your own stand.

The deadlines for applications and price points:
Apply before May 31st and if you’re selected you’ll qualify for the Early Bird Offer of a standard shell scheme of 3m x 1m at £250 plus £50 per additional square metre required.
Prices will revert to the standard charge of £350 per 3m x 1m shell scheme plus £50 per additional square metre required if you successfully apply after May 31st.
We welcome applications from group exhibitors and stand sharers conditional on all exhibitors on the stand being successfully selected by the panel.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Liverpool Design Festival was launched in November 2009 as a new annual design and contemporary craft festival in Liverpool. In 2009 the Festival incorporated, in its first year, over a dozen events in Liverpool city centre and wider Merseyside area and nearly 8000 people visited or participated in exhibitions, workshops, debates and talks and the Festival saw hundreds of designers from across the UK showcase their work.

The 2010 Festival, building on the success of the previous year’s events, celebrates and promotes quality design, encouraging an appreciation of craft and design by the widest possible audience, providing opportunities for participation, particularly by young people, in design and artistic appreciation whilst also supporting new and emerging practitioners.

The Liverpool Design Festival will run from the 18th November to 27th November 2010.

ABOUT THE DESIGN SHOW
The Design Show will be the signature event of the Festival and aims to showcase the best in contemporary design from the North West and the rest of the UK. It will present a selection of exciting and inspiring interior products, glass, ceramics, furniture, lighting, jewellery, textiles and fashion and will run from 19th to 21st November 2010.

The event will also welcome designers producing innovative new work and those that incorporate eco-design practices at the heart of their business. We offer an opportunity to launch new ranges in the UK and a high profile event that supports emerging talent and established designers.

JUDGING PANELS
For interior products and design and contemporary craft (including furniture, glass, ceramics, lighting, jewellery, textiles and wall coverings) our independent selection panel includes:
Maureen Bampton, Director - Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
Beatrice Mayfield, Maker Development Manager - Crafts Council
Frank Collins, Design Show Project Manager - Design Initiative
David Grimshaw, Programme Leader, 3D Design - MMU
Dick Mawdsley, Director - Utility
Claire Norcross, Designer - Jerwood Prize exhibitor

We also have an independent selection panel looking at specifically at designer fashion and fashion accessories (e.g. jewellery, other wearables and bags) including:
Joanne Watkinson, Head Buyer for mywardrobe.com
Kirsty Doyle, Luxury womenswear designer and winner Project Catwalk 2006 - www.kirsty-doyle.com

More judges will be announced soon.

OUR VENUE
The Design Show will take place at the Grade 1 listed St.George’s Hall in the city centre of Liverpool. St.George's Hall is widely regarded as one of the finest neo-classical buildings in the world and stands 169ft long and 74ft wide with a tunnel vaulted ceiling - the largest of its kind in Europe. St George's Hall is central to Liverpool's Cultural Quarter and is a key part of the area which is a designated World Heritage Site. It offers a ‘must see’ event to visitors and a not to be missed opportunity for designers to show and sell their work, promote their businesses and network with trade and public visitors in a breathtakingly beautiful setting.

MEDIA PROFILE
In 2009 the Festival generated the advertising value equivalent of approximately £130,000 in print, web and broadcast media coverage across 60 on and off-line publications, including The Guardian, Easy Jet Traveller Magazine, Big Issue, Your Move, BBC Radio Merseyside, BBC Radio 4, Liverpool Echo, Liverpool Daily Post, Lancashire Telegraph and sites such as Pure Design, Creative Boom and ArtInLiverpool.Com. The Festival will again expect to achieve press and media coverage at local and regional levels as well as attracting significant national interest in 2010.

If you need further details please contact:

Frank Collins
0161 834 3722
frank@designinit.org.uk

You can also sign up to Festival bulletins on the Festival website www.liverpooldesignfestival.com

Comment by Samantha Mills on October 29, 2009 at 12:05pm

As part of the Design Festival Liverpool, The Manchester Jewellers Network presents a collection of jewellery and body adornments based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Through the unusual medium of art jewellery, MJN have grasped their rights of freedom of expression - to educate, challenge and provoke debate though their new exhibition for 2009.

Supported by the Arts Council England, this unique exhibition takes a fresh look at the concept of “Campaign Jewellery.” Jewellery is not solely worn for the decoration and adornment of the wearer but deliberately carries symbolic significance to show marks of allegiance, political, religious or ethical persuasions to challenge the viewer.


The Met Quarter
35 Whitechapel
Liverpool
L1 6DA

Monday 2 November to Sunday 15 November

Opening times
Monday to Saturday and 9.30am to 6pm
Thursday late night to 7pm
Sunday 11am to 5pm

www.liverpooldesignfestival.com

Comment by Frank Collins on October 8, 2009 at 11:56am

Want to exhibit at the Eco Design Show?

Three remaining shell scheme stands are available to jewellers and fashion and accessories designers at Liverpool Design Festival - Eco Design Show.

We have three 3 x 1m stands that need to be snapped up within the next two days. The cost is £300 and you'll get a shell scheme, two spot lights, electrical socket, a profile in the show guide and on our website.

Ideally we're looking for designers that incorporate eco practices into their work - recycling, reuse, locally sourced materials and resources, made in the UK.

All you need to do is download the application form and send it over by email with images of your work by Friday 12.00 noon.

The show opens on October 30th so time is of the essence and anyone who is interested will be fast-tracked so that they will feature in the show guide and on our website.

For more info go to www.liverpooldesignfestival.com or call Frank Collins on 0161 834 3722.

Comment by Abscraft on September 21, 2009 at 10:43am

The 6th annual Oxton Art Fair will be on the 7th and 8th of November in the Williamson Art Gallery with 20 exhibitors, including jewellers Lisa Waldman, Judith Brown, Theresia Cadwallader and myself, Alison Bailey Smith. There will be an cafe, demos and eco wrapping service as well as music and poetry, plus an exhibition of archive material from the Oxton Society.

Comment by Samantha Mills on August 19, 2009 at 10:32am

http://www.retail-jeweller.com/page.cfm/action=Archive/ArchiveID=1/EntryID=407

Article on collaboration with MMU Engineering department on my piece for Articles of Hope, Adornments for Justice Exhibit with Manchester Jewellers Network.

Comment by Frank Collins on July 3, 2009 at 4:47pm

Liverpool will once again be hosting the best in independent contemporary design at the Liverpool Design Festival from 30 October to 8th November 2009.

The ten-day event, inaugurated by Design Initiative, highlights the city’s reputation as a centre for fashion and design and follows the success of Design Show Liverpool in 2008.

The cornerstone of the festival will be two exhibitions running from Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November 2009 at the Crypt Hall of the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.

The Eco Design Show will showcase environmentally friendly design and crafts including interior products, ceramics, furniture, lighting, jewellery and fashion accessories.

The Fashion Lab will allow trade buyers and public to see work by talented new designers. It provides an opportunity to spot up and coming trends and buy unique fashions unavailable in high street stores directly from the designers.

Accompanying the Fashion Lab is the Finishing School, a comprehensive programme of fashion master classes designed especially for recent graduates, new designers as well as more established designers. Through a series of workshops, seminars and one-to-ones with industry professionals over five days in September, the Finishing School aims to raise awareness and knowledge of what it takes to be successful within the fashion industry.

The Festival will also see the launch of Design Stars, a competition involving Liverpool schools to find some of the best local design talent in the11-to-16 age group.

The full programme of events also includes a lively range of debates and seminars.

Designers who wish to exhibit at either the Eco Design Show or the Fashion Lab have until 31st July 2009 to apply to take part. As well as these two exhibitions, if you are interested in the Finishing School masterclasses in September please go to Liverpool Design Festival to get further details and application forms.

Design Initiative is also inviting businesses from the Merseyside creative sector to become Festival Partners and organise their own events such as studio openings, exhibitions and workshops to run alongside the festival.

For revelant contact details and further information see www.liverpooldesignfestival.com which will be updated on an ongoing basis.

You can also follow the Festival on Twitter at Design Fest

The Liverpool Design Festival is run by Design Initiative with the support of Liverpool City Council and Arts Council, England - North West.

Comment by Samantha Mills on June 22, 2009 at 11:27am

In need of some review writers for the exhibit launch on the 2nd July, at the Royal Exchange in Manchester.

Comment by Samantha Mills on June 17, 2009 at 1:51pm

Comment by Samantha Mills on June 12, 2009 at 12:38pm

I went to a great seminar last night about trading and staying legal online by Raj Mahapatra, search for "legal2.0" and also "distant selling directive" put into perspective the laws trading on the web with products.

Comment by Samantha Mills on June 2, 2009 at 12:16pm

Cheers, that is our aim, glad you thought that. More statement shots to tell the story of the pieces, took a while to convince everyone, but it had to be more about perception of jewellery and interpretation of the Human Rights Acts. It will be interesting to hear some reviews on peoples interpretations, and also how children perceive the images and jewellery.

Cheers for forwarding the info, and hope to see you and some of the Liverpool lot at the preview, I will post the e-flyer VIP invite when it is ready. We are in talks with Liverpool venues to tour, so will keep you posted on that one also.

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