Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’
Developing a Glass Act
Sue King, designer-maker talks about how the business support at Cockpit has helped develop her business. How in the past year has Cockpit helped support you to develop your business? My last 18 months as a glass designer-maker based in Cockpit Arts Deptford has been quite a whirlwind for me and been the best time yet, really positive, and enjoyable whilst […]
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Tags: architectural, collaboration, commisioning, Seminars
Making the Most of Collaboration
By Alison Coward When you’re working hard to sell your own work and products, it’s easy to forget how valuable collaboration can be in opening up new opportunities and pushing your practice forward. We all use the word, and know that it’s common amongst creative businesses. But are we really doing it, and are we […]
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Tags: collaboration, Industry Experts, networking
By Ellen O’Hara Vanessa Swann and I had an exciting day at the beautiful LSO St Luke’s in London on Tuesday, for Assemble 2010 – the Craft Council’s post-election conference on the value of craft in our contemporary world. The day was all about finding new ways of articulating the cultural, economic, social and educational […]
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Tags: collaboration, communication, digital, Industry Experts, networking, research
Cockpit Arts was delighted to be Southbank Centre’s partner for Bloom 2010. There has been a tremendous amount of learning that has resulted from the project which was shared at our March seminar ‘Inspiration to Realisation’, attended by over 150 creative businesses. There’s too much information to squeeze into this one article so over […]
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Tags: collaboration, commisioning, communication, exhibition, market, marketing, motivation, networking, planning, profile, Seminars
Getting Site Specific
Cockpit Arts and CreateKX put public art under the microscope By Vanessa Swann On 17 September 2009, as part of the London Design festival the Wellcome Centre opened its doors to a full-house of 70 designer-makers, all keen to hear the low down on public art commissioning. The Getting Site Specific seminar was hosted by […]
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Tags: architectural, collaboration, commisioning, site specific
By Abigail Branagan The effects of the recession had been at the forefront of most designer-makers minds, which is why we decided to run a credit-crunch themed discussion in partnership with Create KX in September 2009 during the London Design Festival. Chaired by Cockpit Arts Chief Executive Vanessa Swan we invited three leading figures in […]
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Tags: collaboration, profile, recession, research, Seminars, values
