Posts Tagged ‘profile’
Q&A with Abigail Brown
Abigail Brown makes hand made textile birds from her studio at Cockpit Arts and writes below about her inspirations, projects and the support she’s had along the way… Q: What three words best describe your work/style? Nature, texture, colour Q: Who, or what, inspired you to become a designer-maker? Initially I was made aware of the craft world […]
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Cockpit Arts hosted Q&A session with leading lights of the media world Grant Gibson, Editor of internationally renowned Crafts Magazine and Julia Hilson of cutting edge PR agency Kaper. They shared a wealth of knowledge on maximising the chances of securing great press coverage. Below is a summarised account of the session which was chaired […]
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Tags: press, profile, Seminars
PR and Approaching the Press
By notonthehighstreet.com notonthehighstreet.com, the award-winning online marketplace, is committed to providing an online platform to promote small, independent UK businesses. Each small business has been carefully chosen by notonthehighstreet.com for its innovative, well-made products to inspire customers looking for style, originality and quality, but who never seem to find it on the high street. notonthehighstreet.com […]
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In our ‘How to Get into…Craft’ seminar at Futurising on 29 June we heard from three leading designers and makers, ceramicist Chris Keenan, textile designer Clarissa Hulse and textile artist and consultant Arantza Vilas. Each spoke about the varied, and often unpredictable, journey they have taken since starting as a practitioner. They provided a valuable […]
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In our ‘How to Get into…Craft’ seminar at Futurising on 29 June we heard from three leading designers and makers, ceramicist Chris Keenan, textile designer Clarissa Hulse and textile artist and consultant Arantza Vilas. Each spoke about the varied, and often unpredictable, journey they have taken since starting as a practitioner. They provided a valuable […]
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Our ‘How to Get into…. Craft’ seminar at Futurising last week brought together three leading designers and makers, ceramicist Chris Keenan, textile designer Clarrisa Hulse and textile artist and consultant Arantza Vilas. Each spoke about the varied, and often unpredictable, journey they have taken since starting as a practitioner. We thought you’d like to hear […]
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Tags: article, exhibiting, Industry Experts, makers, motivation, networking, planning, profile, Seminars
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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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
Top Tip: Profile your customers
by Abigail Branagan If you are struggling to clarify your main routes to market it can be useful to go back to basics and start picturing who your customers are. This exercise only takes around 15 minutes and can help you take a fresh or updated approach. How well do you know your customers? Do […]
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