Best Practice Forum for Designers

 

This one day Forum on Exploring Innovation brought together specialist speakers to discuss how young creative businesses or designers making their own goods can best produce and market their work. Innovation is defined as the successful development of new ideas, achieved through exploiting new technologies, design and/or good business practice.

 

The Forums focused on two strands: in the morning our panellists discussed innovative ways to market and sell designs, and in the afternoon the emphasis was on innovative product development. Specialist talks ended with a keynote speech by Mark Holmes of Established and Sons, and Andrew Summers, Chair, summarised the day's proceedings before a final networking session took place.

 

The Forum was a collaboration between London Design Festival, Design-Nation, Hidden Art and Metropolitan Works and was supported by Bloomberg and Laurent-Perrier. The Forum was the continuation of the Hidden Art Annual Forum, which was first held in 2000. This is the first year that it took place as a part of the London Design Festival.

 

It was held on:

 

To view the morning schedule for the 2006 Forum, click here.

To view the afternoon schedule for the 2006 Forum, click here.

 

For more information on the Hidden Art Forum 2005, click here.