Posts Tagged ‘Seminars’
Making Eco Packaging
By Vanessa Swann, Chief Executive, Cockpit Arts Do you feel so overwhelmed by what it takes to make your business more eco-friendly that it stops you doing much about it? Focussing on packaging can really help to start the process, as six Cockpit designer-makers discovered when they met Clair McMullen from environmental charity, Global Action […]
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Tags: Environment, Recycle, Seminars, Workshops
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
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
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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Tags: commisioning, Industry Experts, Seminars
Making It
Helen Steel is a designer-maker that has taken part in several Making It workshops and seminars which are attended both by studio-holders and other designer-makers. Although Helen does not as yet have a studio and works from home, whilst developing her business she has found attending these sessions inspirational and helpful so we asked her more […]
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Tags: makers, selling, Seminars, tax, vision, Workshops
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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Tags: Industry Experts, makers, marketing, motivation, networking, profile, Seminars, vision
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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Tags: collaboration, commisioning, communication, exhibition, market, marketing, motivation, networking, planning, profile, Seminars
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
