Hidden Art . Newsletter for Designer-Makers
Hidden Art and 100% Futures | Innovative Routes To Market 2008 | Work Experience Placements | Hidden Art
in Milan 2008 | Submit
Products for the Hidden Art E-Shop | Support Programme 2008 | Progressive Design Collection | Bespoke Table | Industrial Visit | Goldsmiths’ Fair | British Female Inventors &
Innovators Network Awards | Craft Forms 2008 | Mentoring For Newly Graduated Jewellers | Grand
Designs Awards
January 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 and 100% Futures
Over the past 10 years or so, a
close partnership has developed between Hidden Art and 100% Design.
Hidden Art brings a wealth of new UK designers' talent to 100% Design,
consistently showcasing exciting products and innovative designers; 100% Design
has provided almost £50,000 worth of support to Hidden Art members
participating in the show.
What’s on offer?
100% Design would like to offer all
Hidden Art members the opportunity to win a stand of around 40m² to 60m² of
exhibition space on which to build their own installation* in our new and
exciting forum for creative talent, 100% Futures.
This is your opportunity to create
something different and unexpected in a creative and fresh arena. We realise
that the space you take is usually constrained by budget – this is your
opportunity to branch out and do something different.
The criteria for the installation is
open; you can explore a current theme or topic in the design industry; showcase
a project or product you are working on or simply showcase your company in an
interesting and unconventional manner. The winner will be chosen by the 100%
Design panel (see website for further details of panel members). For more
details visit
www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/futurescomp.
Innovative Routes To Market 2008 - UPDATE
Innovative Routes to
Market aims to assist designer-makers get a new product/work from ideas
stage into production and onto the market place.
How to join
To be eligible for Innovative Routes to Market 2008, you
must be Hidden Art level 2 member or Hidden Art Cornwall member.
To apply, please fill out and submit the application form
on our website:
However, as a taster of what is to come, the Innovative
Routes to Market Forums are OPEN TO ALL.
The Programme
For the 2008 programme, the following is
available to all who join this initiative (Please see the
website for more details):
Innovative Routes to Market Forums – Held on 3 March 2008, open to all (level 1, Level 2
and Hidden Art Cornwall).
Hidden Polymers – Deadline is 5pm, Wednesday 30 January 2008.
NEW! Specialist Interest sessions
NEW! 1-2-1 Surgeries
Work Experience Placements
Hidden Art
are looking for work experience placements, for one day a week, two months per
placement. The placements will work in a busy not-for-profit design
support organisation as an assistant, producing the monthly e-newsletter and sourcing and
collating opportunities for UK designer-makers.
Duties:
- Working with a Content
Management System to piece together the monthly E-Newsletter.
- Working with Editor to
decide on relevant industry opportunities/training events/competitions for
Designer-Makers.
- Incorporating
Opportunities onto website, and including in E-newsletter breakdown.
Skills that will be learnt.
- Operating a Content
Management System in a professional environment.
- Editorial choice,
choosing opportunities to fit the correct demographic.
- Working within a
professional deadline, team-based environment.
If you are
interested in applying for this position, please contact
saul@hiddenart.co.uk with a
brief covering letter.
The deadline for applications is 13 February 2008.
The ideal
candidates will be computer literate.
HIDDEN ART NEWS
Hidden Art
in Milan 2008
Hidden Art
will once again have a stand at SaloneSatellite in Milan, from 16-20 April. Hidden Art designer-makers launching
new products in Milan are:
Daisuke
Hiraiwa – Skin of Spaces
Gareth Neal – Anne and George Tables
Jake Phipps – Jeeves & Wooster
Jonathan Tibbs – Furniture
Lina Meier – Ollo Eatingware
Mark Irlam – Furniture
Scene – Schtum
To see more
details visit
www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/milan.
Submit
Products for the Hidden Art E-Shop
The Hidden
Art E-Shop’s next product assessment is taking place on 15 February. Ideal
products for this period will be along a Spring/Summer theme.
Support Programme 2008
The new Hidden Art Support Programme will be launched in
March 2008, featuring a new calendar of design focused events aimed at getting
your designs and your business to be where you want it.
OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE HIDDEN ART
PLEASE NOTE: Hidden Art does not vet individual
listings and cannot be held responsible for any resulting loss or injury.
Progressive Design Collection
Studiomama are trying to make a collection of
progressive designs that intends to raise understanding and awareness of
sustainable product design - utilising material, processes, packaging
etc. to create a 'low-impact' collection. The collection will be promoted at
100% Design and supported by one of London's well established design
distributors.
They
are seeking:
*
disabled, disadvantaged or underprivileged workshops
* a
dying or niche craft-based industry
* a
material or process that is geographically or nationally unique
For more
details visit
www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/studiomamacollection.
Bespoke Table
A client is interested in getting a Hidden Art designer-maker to
construct a bespoke desk. The desk will replace one which was destroyed
in an accident.
The
original desk was a light wood/beech, large and stable-looking. It had
an adjustable top, similar to an architect's desk, with three
positions.
Original table was 8-9 years old.
For more details visit
www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/bespoketable.
Industrial Visit
The South Eastern Plastics and Rubber Group have organised a
visit to TARRC (Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre / Malaysian
Rubber) on 6 February.
The visit will include a tour of their very
impressive laboratories, followed by lunch.
Held At:
Brickendonbury
Hertford
SG13
8NL
If you would like to attend please visit
www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/tarrc.
Goldsmiths’ Fair
Goldsmiths’ Fair is a prestigious selling event for
professional silversmiths and jewellers. Held annually, the Fair is now in its
26
th year application forms for exhibitors are now ready. This year’s
Fair will be a two week event:
Week One: 22 Sept – 28 Sept 2008
Week Two: 30 Sept – 5 Oct 2008
Once again, the Goldsmiths’ Company will be offering
ten places on the graduate bursary
scheme – this is a
free stand at
Goldsmiths’ Fair and £1,500 bursary to assist with making costs. There is
one application form for the Fair – please ensure you complete Section Three if
applying for the bursary.
For further details visit
www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/goldsmiths.
British Female Inventors &
Innovators Network Awards
Nominees wanted for the British Female Inventors &
Innovators Network Awards this March. The Welsh Assembly are part-sponsoring
the event this year. Past winners have been able to use the publicity to help
grow their enterprises. For example, Mandy Haberman, inventor of the Anywayup
cup, winner in 2000, is now very successful.
If your innovative product or service is not on the
market yet- you would still be eligible
for the Best Business Idea Award.
For more details visit
www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/competitions.
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.
Mentoring For Newly Graduated JewellersPalmer Hamilton
Partnership announce the launch of a new mentoring programme for recent
UK wide jewellery graduates, who are now based in London.
Mentoring Matters will connect
twenty self-motivated, enthusiastic jewellery designers with industry
professionals to advise and guide them over one year in 2008.
The mentoring programme is being run to create a support structure
that will provide emerging jewellery designers with access to a sympathetic ear
from a wide range of 'industry insiders', in what can often be a lonely
business.
After the year of 1 to 1 support from mentors who are experienced
and knowledgeable in their field, the selected group will have the opportunity
to meet event and show organisers, retailers and key figures from the jewellery
industry. They will be able to showcase their work, discuss the progress they
have made during the programme and prove that Mentoring does indeed Matter.
The mentoring programme will run from January 2008 - January 2009
and the information sheets and application forms are attached for both mentees
and mentors.
Please note:
Deadline for applications from mentees is
5pm 11 February 2008.
See
www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk/trainingopportunities for more information.
Grand
Designs Awards
Grand
Designs Awards celebrate the best of British home architecture and product
design. And this time, not only are they free to enter, but also chosen by the
British public in a television event.
2008 also sees the introduction of the
Product of the Year Award.
For more details visit
www.channel4.com/4homes.
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
2007/8 this includes:
100% Design, Arts Council, 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 (Metropolitan Works and Polymer
Centre), London Remade, LB Hackney, 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.
