Posts Tagged ‘commisioning’
Making It: Heritage
Over the last few years there’s been a significant increase in the number of creative businesses working in partnership with the heritage sector. There is a wealth of projects taking place across the country from large-scale installations to special ranges of retail products. For the heritage sector, working with designer-makers enables fresh interpretation, bringing the […]
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Tags: commisioning, heritage, makers, Seminars
By Glass Artist Delia Scales Delia Scales of Apollo Stained Glass based at Cockpit Arts in Deptford was commissioned by Discover Greenwich to create four stained glass pieces depicting the Thames barrier, Tower Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and the Millennium Bridge. We asked her about her experiences of delivering a commission: Q: Please tell us about […]
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Tags: commisioning, makers
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 It Big
In 2010 The Making ran a day-long symposium to inspire designer-makers to apply for large-scale commissions, run public workshops and create interventions as part of a portfolio career. The symposium looked at the wealth of transferable skills developed as a maker and demonstrated how makers can develop and use those skills outside conventional making practice […]
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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
