London Design Festival

London Design Festival

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Design and social thinking: Tessy Britton's Hand Made | London Design Festival londondesignfestival.com

In the public mind, design is all too often just making things look nicer so you can sell more of them. One of the challenges raised at the London Design Review was how to showcase those projects that were doing more than that....

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Design and social thinking: Tessy Britton's Hand Made | London Design Festival londondesignfestival.com

In the public mind, design is all too often just making things look nicer so you can sell more of them. One of the challenges raised at the London Design Review was how to showcase those projects that were doing more than that....

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Owen B.

Owen

It can be a great way to meet new people - but does it live up to the hype?

Check out Creativepool's meetups for creatives!
http://www.meetup.com/Creativepool-Network/

Do you network? blogs.creativepool.co.uk

Up until a month ago I’d never attended a networking group. In truth I didn’t know much about them. I assumed that they were for geeks and braggers, for the totally incompetent and the mildly desperate, for people either short...

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Chun Qing L.

Chun Qing

Could someone advise how to be part of LDF this September and how to apply for it? Many thanks!

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William S.

William

The Brompton Design District are offering some prime sits during Chelsea Fringe

Brompton Design District say: "We understand it is short notice but some prime sites have become available and we are able to offer ...

bromptondesigndistrict.com bromptondesigndistrict.com

http://www.bromptondesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Brompton-Design-District.pdf

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Patricia V.

Patricia

Do you want to participate in a design trade fair or crafts show but need a bit more help?

I recently wrote a series of blog post to help new designers and crafts people who want to do their first show:

http://www.thedesigntru ...

Affordable contemporary art, including prints, ceramic art, fibre art, metalwork, photography. Various locations in UK and internationally You need to sell and apply through a gallery, and work on sale needs to be below £4K...

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William S.

William

Are you thinking of taking part in the London Design Festival 2012?

If so, we've got some information we'll need to pass on to you.

It includes details of deadlines you'll need to know if you're taking ...

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Francoise M.

Francoise

A great artist to share with you all

I met Adam in 2011 through Twitter (where else!) and my husband and I went to visit his showroom early that year as we are both fascinated by glass making and love glass art. We were very lucky to get up close that day as Adam...

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Chun Qing

Pavilion Architecture is seeking talented and motivated people to build the [d_pod] pavilion in London, which is going to be exhibited ...

Pavilion Architecture is seeking talented and motivated people to build the [d_pod] pavilion in London, which is going to be exhibited outside the O2 Arena, Hyde Park and Bankside during and beyond the London Olympic and...

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Gregory A. 4 months ago • Edit • Excellent, my email address is create_magic@hotmail.co.uk and I can send you some examples of my work and CV tonight to the address »
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Patricia V.

Patricia

New Linked in group for design and crafts businesses

The Design Trust was set up 20 years ago to provide business support and advice to small design and crafts businesses. It has recently ...

The Design Trust (UK) linkedin.com

The Design Trust helps people to start, run and grow their own professional contemporary crafts and design business. We focus on the UK, but welcome international crafts people and designers too, as well as those individuals and organisations who help them to achieve that. Our website provides online information about all aspects of your crafts and design business, and access to high quality t

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Hannah

Can you design a green car in just 12 hours?

Our 12:grn:hrs event is shaping up nicely, we have some amazing designers joining us and we are looking forward to some awesome ideas!

12:grn:hrs - design a green car in a day! twelvegreenhours-esli.eventbrite.com

12:grn:hrs - design a green car in a day ! is an unprecedented one day event planned by Green Car Design during the London Design Festival 2011. The aim of the event is to create an opportunity for an intense day of design...

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William S.

William

Interesting to know what people think of this article, "Designs for life won't make you a living" by Justin McGuirk.

It touches a few issues that rose to the surface during Milan this year. For all that designers supposedly do for industry, they often ...

Justin McGuirk: The 50th Milan furniture fair was crawling with millionaires – but are designers being exploited by having to make work for free?

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Sean A.

Sean

London Design Festival Events: How Design Stopped Being Special & Why This Feeds Free Pitching.

I am hosting this event on Friday 23 September at the V&A. Looking forward to helping designers escape free pitching.

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Phil P. 8 months ago • Edit • Hello Sean we would be delighted to recieve a copy of your presentation when it is available. Thank you for offering to share it. ... »
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Francoise M.

Francoise

AR House Awards arhouse.co.uk

The winning project, Just K, Zero Energy House in Tübingen, Germany, fought off tough competition from around the world to claim £5,000 in prize money and the honour of being named overall winner by a distinguished...

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William K.

William

London Design Review - Design Week coverage

Article on London Design Review, albeit slightly overshadowed by comments from Ed Vaizey

Culture Secretary Ed Vaizey has indicated that the mooted merger between the Design Council and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment is set to go ahead.

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