Posts Tagged ‘top tip’
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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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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Textile designer Naomi Ryder launched a product range as part of Southbank Centre’s Bloom initative in May 2010. We were interested to find out more about why she decided to make the exciting move into manufacture. As a textile designer, who is used to very hands-on processes, why did you decide to develop products for Southbank Centre that would require […]
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By Allison Wiffen Allison makes pendants, cufflinks, brooches and earrings, often featuring photographic images from London and Newcastle upon Tyne from her Cockpit Arts studio in Deptford. As Allison prepares to take part in Top Drawer this September and with several years of experience of selling at trade shows she passes on some of the […]
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Interview by Ellen O’Hara, Head of Business Development at Cockpit Arts During Collect 2010, I took part in a panel discussion organised by Crafts Magazine. The theme was ‘Crafting a Career’. Also on the panel was ceramist Jacob van der Beugel, who touched on a theme close to my heart – the important relationship between pricing, value […]
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by Abigail Branagan, Business Development Manager at Cockpit Arts If you ask most small businesses what would have the most significant impact on their business, one of the most frequent answers would be “money”. Accessing money through external funding is a competitive process therefore you need to be really clear about what you actually need the […]
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By Ellen O’Hara, Head of Business Development at Cockpit Arts There’s no doubt that getting your pricing right is a crucial part of your marketing and business strategy as a designer-maker. As part of the Pricing Decision series I am looking at three key areas: Cost, Market and Value, as well as how different pricing strategies […]
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By Ellen O’Hara, Head of Business Development at Cockpit Arts There’s no doubt that getting your pricing right is a crucial part of your marketing and business strategy as a designer-maker. As part of the Pricing Decision series I am looking at three key areas: Cost, Market and Value, as well as how different pricing strategies […]
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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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by Abigail Branagan As a creative practitioner one of the most useful marketing and communication tools you can have is an artists’ statement. This is for a number of reasons. Although people will interact and interpret your work in their own way, they will still want to find out why the piece was made and […]
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