Hidden Art . Newsletter for Designer-Makers
May Networking Session - Business Planning | Hidden Art at
100% Design Deadline – Reserve List | Second Hidden
Art Forum | Product Development with Marion Gillet | Work Placement at New Designers | Hidden Art Members 25% off Pulse Stand Cost | Spare Stand at Top Drawer Autumn | Hidden Art invited to Open Rehearsal | Product Review and Pricing | Tribute
to Peta Levi | Hidden Art in Milan 2008 | Ooob Nominated | Submit Products for the Hidden Art E-Shop | New E-Shop Criteria | FX International Interior Design Awards | Arts Fundraising Workshop | Devon Based Art and Craft Gallery/Shop | Wood Awards - Furniture Category | Lighting and Homewear products | Craft Forms 2008
April 2008
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
May Networking Session - Business Planning
The next Hidden Art networking session will be run by Lucy Kyle - held on 7 May, 6–7pm, at Hidden Art.
This session will focus on
Business Planning, and be the first Hidden Art Intensive Session (
You can book here).
Do you spend most of your time
firefighting? Would you like more control over your business? Learn to
recognise your strengths and grab opportunities that will help your
business grow by developing an effective plan. This interactive
session will take you through a simple process to help define your
own 12 month goals and create an action plan for achieving them.
Lucy Kyle spent eight years in arts
marketing before setting up her own business as a freelance consultant.
For the last three years she has been a SFEDI accredited Senior Business
Adviser and trainer at CIDA
www.cida.co.uk
(Cultural Industries Development Agency) working with hundreds of small
businesses across a wide range of creative subsectors.
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Hidden Art at
100% Design Deadline – Reserve List If you are interested in submitting an
application to be on the Hidden Art reserve list, please read all the
information located at
www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/100percent
and email your application presentation and form by
10am, Wednesday 14 May
2008. Dependent on size of spaces taken by current participants, Hidden Art may
have space for an additional designer-maker, we are therefore opening up these
applications for the second deadline.
Second Hidden
Art Forum
Growing Your Business - Reaching European Markets, Thursday 19
June, 2008 at UBS Investment Bank
9.30 –
18.00pm
Don’t miss out on
this year’s second Hidden Art Forum which will take place on Thursday 19 June
at UBS Investment Bank from 9.30 – 18.00pm.
The aim of the day is
to equip you with the tools to grow your business in the
global market place and increase sales. You will get an update on the
latest opportunities to sell abroad, hear how to prepare for collaborative successful
tenders, find out how others have built up their business
successfully and have the opportunity to network.
Deadline for
registration 16 June 10am.
Product Development with Marion Gillet
Tuesday 6 May. These sessions will focus on Product
Development Strategy, Licensing, Manufacturing and Distribution, and
trade fair approach and preparation.
Marion
supplies creative product development services to designer-makers. Her
expertise and professionalism allows her clients to take their ideas to
market and form good working relationshipswith prestigious clients.
Over the past four years she has advised a large number of designers
andmakers
through Hidden Art, Craft Central or Cockpit Arts. Marion also runs How
to Develop Your Products, an evening course held at Central Saint
Martins.
Work Placement at New Designers
LAST CHANCE TO APPLY - DEADLINE 10am Friday 2 May.
Hidden
Art are offering a work experience position to coincide with their
appearance at New Designers. interviews will be held on 8 May.
The
position will involve contacting / targeting Universities, preparing
material, learning about membership procedures and structure, working
at the event, entering contacts onto the database and corresponding
with contacts. The
placement will run for approximately two months from mid/late May till
mid/late July – 1 day a week, increasing to 2 ½ days per week during
event.
This unpaid
placement will offer priceless experience working in a membership
organization, give access to the New Designers show and provide
experience in a range of other areas.
Hidden Art Members 25% off Pulse Stand Cost
Last 5 spaces! Hidden Art designer-makers will receive 25% off their stand
costs at Pulse, as well as receiving complimentary lighting, electrics
and cladding – and not to mention lots of marketing potential!
Pulse, Earls Court, London, 1 – 3 June 2008.
New
companies. New products. New trends. New ideas… With over 700
exhibitors, twice that of any other show in London this summer, Pulse
is the trade show to top-up your stock and kick-start your Christmas
season, with all sorts, sizes, shapes and colours of unique items and
accessories that you’ve never seen before from over 700 suppliers.
Spare Stand at Top Drawer Autumn
A Hidden Art designer-maker has unfortunately
had to pull out of Top Drawer Autumn (16-18 September). As a result, they would
like to know if any fellow Hidden Art designer-maker member would be interested
in taking up this stand.
Hidden Art invited to Open Rehearsal
Now in its
4th year, the dates for Open Rehearsal 2008 are: 26, 27, 28 September,
coinciding with the launch for the cultural Olympiad.
Open
Rehearsal aims to open doors, engage audiences, encourage participation and
learning and promote London's phenomenal cultural offer, making it a perfect
partner to realise the aspirations of London 2012's cultural programme.
This year
Hidden Art designer-makers have been invited to take part during the event.
Open
Rehearsal will form the core London activity for the Cultural Olympiad launch.
Open Rehearsal provides a superb opportunity to encourage Londoners of all ages
and backgrounds to engage in new and exciting with the performing arts sector
in London. For 2008, Open Rehearsal will also include, for the first time,
visual arts, museums and open studios events.
Product Review and Pricing
Deadline : 7 May.
We
have a fantastic opportunity for a select number of designer-makers to
recieve product and pricing review ideas from a panel of UBS Investment
bank employees. Thursday 15 May (2 hours in the morning or afternoon) at own studio
Who
Open to Hidden Art Level 2 Innovative Routes to Market members.
Maximum 6 designer-makers (within no more than a 15 minute drive from Liverpool Street station)
What
Those selected will be visited by between 2-3 industry experts from UBS Investment Bank and will receive support and advice on:
Products sold, optimizing revenue streams and reducing costs, focusing specifically on pricing and revenue structures.
HIDDEN ART NEWS
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Tribute
to Peta Levi
Peta Levi,
founder of Design-Nation and The Design Trust, died at the end of last week,
aged 69.
We at
Hidden Art are much indebted to Peta. Dieneke Ferguson, Hidden Art’s founder,
had known her since 1992, and Peta has been an inspiration for Dieneke as well
as Hidden Art. She was always happy to help and share her contacts, insights
and knowledge and we had been fortunate to work on a wide range of
collaborative projects with Peta and DesignNation, such as the Hidden Art Forum
at which Peta Levi spoke in 2006.
She will be
deeply missed, but her legacy will live on in DesignNation, New Designers, as
well as any other initiatives she set up and those that still will be set up in
her honour.
For those
who have known Peta Levi and want to email her condolences, you can do so by
email to
condolences@designnation.co.uk.
The funeral service took place on Monday 28 April, and a memorial service will
take place later in the year.
From all of
us at Hidden Art we send our deepest condolences to Peta’s family and anyone
who has worked closely with her throughout the years.
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Hidden Art in Milan 2008
The Hidden Art
UK designer-makers who launched their new products at SaloneSatellite, on the Hidden Art Stand, had a great exhibition.
With
a massive audience and a great stand layout, the Hidden Art
designer-makers drew in interest from many different sectors.
To see a
selection of images from our members on stand visit the
Milan SaloneSatellite Photo Gallery.
Ooob Nominated
Hidden
Art designer-maker member Hemal Patel of Headsprung! has had his Ooob
Doorstop design (as seen with Hidden Art at 100% Design in 2006
www.hiddenartlondon.com/100percent) has been nominated for a Grand Designs Award.
Scabetti, fellow Hidden Art member, is also nominated for the best Light category.
To see their nominations follow
this link and
this link.
Submit Products for the Hidden Art E-Shop
The
Hidden Art E-Shop’s next product assessments are taking place on 1
& 30 May. Ideal products for this period will be along a
Spring/Summer theme.
New E-Shop Criteria
Current
and future E-Shop participants should keep their eyes peeled for the
new E-Shop selection criteria. The E-shop team are currently working
hard on the new documents, which will apply to both existing and new
products on the site. When ready they will be made available at
www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/eshopinfo.
OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE HIDDEN ART
PLEASE NOTE: Hidden Art does not vet individual listings and cannot be held responsible for any resulting loss or injury.
FX International Interior Design Awards
Deadline 20 June 2008: The 10th FX Awards
Ceremony, taking place in October, calls for entries for design
projects or products for interiors. Design categories include Leisure,
Workspace, Retail and Public Spaces.
For more details visit
www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/competitions.
Arts Fundraising Workshop
Workshop 22 May: Free to those based in Hackney,
Newham & Tower Hamlets. £55 for those outside these areas, the day
will provide an overview on arts funding and how to develop a
fundraising strategy. It will include an
understanding of the funding trends
and the current climate, with an overview of public funding, lottery,
sponsorship, European funding, trust and foundations, and earned
income.
For more details visit
www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/funding.
Devon Based Art and Craft Gallery/Shop
There is a possibility of an online Art and Craft gallery
with a shop being developed in Devon. For this project to go ahead, 100 artist/designer-maker
opinions are needed in order to gain the required support.
Wood Awards - Furniture Category
Deadline: 21 May
Entries
are invited for furniture to the highest standards of design. Made as
either individual pieces, or as batches from small workshops as well as
larger manufacturers. Anyone may enter any piece(s) with the permission
of the current owner.
The Criteria
The
Wood Awards is looking to acknowledge and encourage the finest design
and craftsmanship in UK furniture. There is no restriction on materials
except that the dominant material must be wood in some form or other.
The independent panel of judges will be looking particularly for
innovative or creative use of wood, a high standard of response to a
client brief, and excellence in execution.
Lighting and Homewear products Seeking an experienced sales agent or distributor to sell in the UK and
Ireland. The brand covers two categories; a brand new innovative range of
lampshades, wall lights and homewear textile products/soft furnishings. Looking
for a well connected sales agent to cover all territories in the UK and Ireland
for each of these product areas to assist in establishing the brand and the
product range.
For more details visit
www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/jobs.
Craft Forms 2008
“Craft
Forms 2008” 14th International Juried Exhibition. Contemporary Craft. 5
December, 2008 – 22 January, 2009. $4,000 + Cash Awards. Entry Fee:
CD/Slide $40/On-line $30. Deadline: 19 September, 2008.
Feedback
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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
2008 this includes:
100% Design, Arts Council, Artsline, Bombay
Sapphire, Briffa, 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,
Geffrye Museum, Heal’s, Inspire, London Borough Hackney, London Development
Agency, London Design Festival, London Metropolitan University (Metropolitan
Works and Polymer Centre), MAS, 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.
