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Comment by Frank Collins on May 13, 2010 at 4:59pm

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 Frank Collins on May 11, 2010 at 5:38pm

Stockport Creative Industries Network in association with Design Initiative invites you to attend the upcoming seminar for designer-makers and creative practitioners

“Marketing to the visitor economy”
Wednesday May 26th 2009, 10am – 4.00pm
Conference Room
Stockport Business Incubator
3rd Floor Broadstone Mill, Broadstone Road
Houldsworth Village
Stockport
SK5 7DL

The visitor economy is a vital and vibrant part of the wider economy both locally and of the UK as a whole. The latest figures for 2006 from the NWDA showed visitors generated £11.6 billion for the North West region alone. The UK as a whole is committed to improving the visitor business and leisure experience whether it is through public sector legacy projects or retail improvement initiatives. So how could designer-makers and visual artists get involved in this multi-billion pound sector?

This specialist workshop will introduce the concept of working with local, regional and UK wide attractions and initiatives to supply to the visiting public. It will cover how to market your work to buyers and work within its market constraints. So if you are a designer-maker or visual artist who has ever wondered just how to get your work into some of the most visited craft and design arenas in the UK, this workshop will show you how.

Those practitioners with the skills to deliver to the demands of an area’s visitors will be in a strong position to take advantage of the opportunities available. The assembled speakers all have strong knowledge and experience of working on or are recruiting for current visitor projects.

Speakers will include:
Helen Palmer, Palmer Squared. A cultural and tourism marketing specialist
Sarah Thirlwell, Designer (www.sarahthirlwell.com)
Marcus Chase, Principle Manager Enterprises & Performance, Manchester Art Gallery. Part of an NWDA funded project to raise the standard of buying for all North West visitor outlets.

This event, funded by Stockport Council, has been organised by Stockport Creative Industries Network in association with Design Initiative and is targeted at designers, makers and visual artists working in all fields. Lunch and refreshments will be provided as well as an opportunity to network after the event.

Booking
This event is free to members of the Stockport Creative Network. Places are limited so advanced booking is essential.

New members are also welcome to attend but must be working or resident in Stockport. Please contact the email address below for more details.

To book your place please email your details to Chris Lethbridge at: stockportcreatives@me.com

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About Stockport Creative Industries Network
Stockport Creative Industries Network was established in 2007 by Stockport Council, and Stockport Economic Alliance. The network was the outcome of research identifying Stockport as home to the second largest concentration of creative professionals/businesses in Greater Manchester and demonstrating demand for local networking opportunities. To date the network has a database of approximately 400 businesses, organisations and individuals professionally involved with the creative sector.

Following on from the its previous networking and seminar programmes, the Network has been successful in securing funding from Arts Council England North West, to provide a unique seminar programme for creatives across Stockport. This programme is about helping creative practitioners to reach new markets, sell more work and market themselves effectively.

Comment by Phil Northall on March 25, 2010 at 3:49pm

Creative Industries Networking Group welcomes the launch of Salford Business School’s Innovation Bazaar

The Creative Industries Networking Group (CING) is extending its regular monthly meetup for April to include the launch of the ‘Innovation Bazaar’ at CUBE Gallery on April 12th. This project, devised by the University of Salford Business School, aims to develop and support ideas from across the creative world and most importantly link the creators of these ideas with the larger businesses and institutions who have the capability to transform these seeds of innovation into market-ready products or services.

The Innovation Bazaar will be an open innovation marketplace based on a call for ideas around the theme of “new ways of working”. The Innovation Bazaar is a concept that is located between the point of an idea and the first prototype, making it different to, and more inclusive than, other exhibitions/awards for innovation.

After the initial call for submissions, the 50 best ideas will then be exhibited in the CUBE Gallery for a week in June. During this exhibition investors, business angels, product developers and institutions will be encouraged to peruse the ideas and to submit ‘bids’ in a blind auction, based on the support and resources they can offer to bring the idea to market. At the end of the exhibition the main Innovation Bazaar will take place in the exhibition space, allowing those with the ideas to mingle with those with the resources and knowledge on how to realise the full potential of the ideas.

This launch event will provide anyone who has a germ of an idea with more details about the Innovation Bazaar and will be a chance for interested parties to ask any questions or raise any queries they may have. The Innovation Bazaar is aimed at anyone with an idea including students at college or university; recent graduates; freelancers and the self-employed; small business owners or anyone, anywhere with an idea for a new product or service, we only ask that it addresses the key theme of “new ways of working”.

To add an element of experience to proceedings, we have also managed to secure Barbara Hastings-Asatourian, founder of Contraception Education and the creator of Contraception the Board Game. This original idea for a new way to teach children about sexual health has now been developed into a range of different formats and translated into a number of different languages to be sold around the world. Barbara will give us a brief account of her experiences getting her idea off the ground and on to worldwide success.

I hope you agree that this is a fantastic project with plenty of potential to both develop new ideas and to link key players from the creative fields with some of the many organisations and institutions that can develop ideas and talent further. Expect the usual relaxed and informal CING atmosphere, so get over to www.meetup.com/c-i-n-g and register to attend.

Date: Monday 12th April 2010
Time: 6.00pm - 9.00pm
Venue: CUBE Gallery, Portland Street, Manchester
Register and more information at www.meetup.com/c-i-n-g