Hidden Art . Newsletter for Associates
Hidden Art Select 2008 | Graphic
Designer/Art Worker (P/T) | Market
Research Coordinator (P/T) - New Post | Hidden Art Annual Survey - win a
£150 Voucher | Hidden Art Awards Exhibition | Forum Podcasts | Eshop Christmas Holiday Operating | Environmental Health Check Workshop | United Nations Design Competition | Bicycling Design Competition | How to Develop your Products
November 2007
To access and participate in all the Hidden Art services and initiatives detailed in this newsletter, you must be a paid Hidden Art member. Full membership details and application form can be downloaded here or buy your membership online at www.hiddenartshop.com.
HIDDEN ART OPPORTUNITIES
Hidden Art Select 2008
Following the success of
Hidden Art Select's Launch
in 2007, the programme will return in the New Year. Open to all Hidden
Art Innovative Routes to Market Members who have been trading for 18
months or more, the programme offers structured assistance to take
designer-makers' projects from ideas to manufacture and the market. The
selected projects will also be sold through the
Hidden Art E-Shop. A detailed email will be sent in early december, but for now here are some tenative dates to bear in mind:
Expressions of
Interest deadline: 11 January 2008.
Information sessions assiting brief completion will take place in mid-January
2008.
Briefs submitted:
31 January 2008 (format to be announced).
More details will be sent directly to
Level Two members, as well as being announced in future e-newsletters.
Recruitment at Hidden Art: Graphic
Designer/Art Worker (P/T)
We are seeking a Graphic Designer/Art Worker (P/T 4
days a week) to design in-house marketing material, liaise with printers and
suppliers and manage the online designer-maker directory and images library.
Deadline: Thursday 3 January
2008
Recruitment at Hidden Art: Market
Research Coordinator (P/T) - New Post
We are seeking to
appoint a Market Research Coordinator (P/T 4 days a week) to support the Chief Executive and the Hidden
Art team with gathering external market intelligence and evaluate existing
programmes so that Hidden Art can continue to provide an innovative, integrated
support network for the designer-maker sector.
Deadline: Thursday 3 January
2008
Hidden Art Annual Survey - win a
£150 Voucher
If you
haven't done so yet, there is stil time to give your feedback on what you would
like us to do at Hidden Art to help you develop your business and meet your
needs and aspirations.
If you are a Hidden Art
designer-maker member or have been a member, we would like to hear from you.
The survey will have already been emailed to you earlier this week.
The evaluation takes only 15 minutes
to complete the questionnaire and you will be entered in a draw to
win a £150
voucher to be spent at the Hidden Art E-Shop www.hiddenartshop.com.
Deadline extended to Monday 3
December
HIDDEN ART NEWS
Hidden Art Awards Exhibition
A selection of Hidden Art members nominated for the
Hidden Art Awards
will be exhibiting their work at Rich Mix Gallery from 6-17 December.
The gallery is located at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1
6IA. To see a list of the nominees up for Hidden Art Awards visit the
Awards page.
The fourth Annual Hidden Art Awards ceremony, to mark the achievements
of Hidden Art members, will take place on Thursday 13 December at
Rich Mix on Bethnal Green Road.
Exhibitors at last year's Awards exhibition included Established & Sons, Anthony Dickens, Snowden Flood, Fly Pitcher, Michelle Mason, Scabetti and Headsprung!
Forum Podcasts
Podcasts from the
Hidden Art Forum
held in September are now available to download. If were unable to
attend the event, or would like to revisit some of the topics covered,
MP3 recordings of everyone's talks are available in the Forum section
of the Hidden Art website.
Marking
its 8th year, the Hidden Art Forum was yet another great success for
2007. With an array of speakers covering many different expertise
areas, the forum provided knowledge, insight and and sound strategies
for future planning.
‘Anticipating
the Future’ discussed globalisation, British design within the global
industry and innovation and the environment. Speakers for this year's
event included; David Dewing (Chair), Director of the Geffrye Museum,
Ben Evans, Director of the London Design Festival, Committee, Max
Fraser and keynote closing from Jeremy Myerson (RCA).
Eshop Christmas Holiday Operating
The
Hidden Art E-Shop
team will be checking on orders between Christmas and New Year, but
will only be dealing with urgent customer orders/deliveries.
If you have any queries about this period, please contact
daniel@hiddenart.co.uk.
OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE HIDDEN ART
PLEASE NOTE: Hidden Art does not vet individual listings and cannot be held responsible for any resulting loss or injury.
Environmental Health Check Workshop
Friday 7 December, 10 am -12 pm
At Metropolitan Works, London Metropolitan University, 41 Commercial Road, London E1
1LA.
Environmental support that is practical,
straightforward and designed to meet your
needs.
The London
Environment Centre (LEC) in association with Metropolitan Works and with funding
from the Manufacturing Advisory Service is offering Small to Medium Enterprises
(SMEs) the opportunity to participate in an Environmental Self Audit workshop
designed for the manufacturing & process based sector.
Participants
will be taken through an Environmental Health Check. This will help them
identify their main environmental impacts and learn about the main environmental
legislation likely to affect them. This is a simple and cost-effective way for
you to begin to understand the environmental issues which affect you and how you
can reduce them.
For more details log in to the
training section of the Hidden Art Members' Area.
United Nations Design Competition
Design21, the social design network, has launched a competition
centred around the United Nations.
The Brief: Create Designs that promote the United Nations Millennium
Development Goals.
Starts: December 2007
Deadline: April 2008
For details on how to apply log in to the
Competitions area on the Hidden Art London website.
Bicycling Design Competition
Design21 are also running a competition
aimed at helping to promote cycling.
The Brief: Design products and systems that promote
bicycling as an everyday lifestyle.
Deadline: March 2008
Details on this competition can also be found under the
Competitions area on the Hidden Art London website.
How to Develop your ProductsEvening course @ Central Saint Martins
This is a course to assist you in developing your prototype into a product.
You might be:
- A graduate from a design course (6 months to a year and a half),
- An independent professional designer or architect working full-time on other jobs,
- An employed designer working full or part-time for another designer,architect or in any other employer.
If you are struggling to get your own idea off the ground, this course can assist you.
The course runs from 10 January – 13 March.
For more details view the
Training section of the Hidden Art London webpage.
News from the Hidden Art Team
Here
is the new e-newsletter format, now with pictures, all located
right here on www.hiddenartlondon.com. Why not have a look around while
you are here?
Best Wishes,
Saul and the Hidden Art team
Feedback
At
Hidden Art we encourage any feedback you are willing to give. We are
always looking to improve the service we provide you with. If you have
any opinions to share on our E-newsletter, website, magazine or any
other aspect of the company, feel free to email them to
saul@hiddenart.co.uk.
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About Mazorca Projects and Hidden Art
Hidden
Art is a membership organisation that supports and promotes
designer-makers, while offering companies and members of the public
access to original design. Hidden Art is the trading name of the
not-for-profit support organisation Mazorca Projects.
Mazorca
Projects Ltd receives funding as well as support in kind from the public and
private sectors. For 2007 this includes:
100%
Design,
Artsline, Bloomberg, Bombay Sapphire, Briffa,
Bloomberg, British Chamber of Commerce for Italy, Business Link
Hertfordshire, Canary Wharf Ltd, City Fringe Partnership, CMS Cameron McKenna
LLP (Solicitors), Create,
East London Business Alliance, Esmée Fairbairn, European Social Fund, Field
Fisher Waterhouse, Government Office for London (ERDF), Geffrye Museum, Heal's,
Inspire, Knowledge East, London Borough Hackney, London Development Agency,
London Design Festival, London Metropolitan University (Polymer Centre), London
Remade, LB Hackney, MAS, Metropolitan Works (London Metropolitan University),
Newham College of Further Education, Own-It, Rich Mix, Salone Satelite, UBS
Investment Bank, Zetter.
Mazorca
Projects makes every effort to provide information, which is relevant,
and as complete, up-to-date and accurate as possible. However, neither
Mazorca Projects (nor any of its employees or subcontractors) can be
held responsible for any errors or omissions.
