Design blog featuring arts, crafts, fashion and culture
It’s London Fashion Week next month and an off-schedule fashion show will feature emerging and independent designers from across the globe. The line-up includes Amato Couture (recently commissioned by Heidi Klum to design a range for Germany’s Next Top Model), Jonathan Liang (awarded the Most Promising Malaysian Designer accolade) and Mr Lipop (as[.....]
The next Levenshulme Craft Fair takes place on 14th August at Levenshulme Library. This is just round the corner from where I live. I love it when that happens.
Eight local designer makers (four in the morning and four in the afternoon) will be selling their wares and providing craft demos. The library[.....]
Making zines became a mass movement in the 1970s, inspired by the DIY ethos of the punk movement and the arrival of cheap photocopying. Zinemaking has now become an affordable way for artists and writers to self-publish their work.
With sites like Etsy and Folksy bringing the DIY word to a new generation of creatives, there’s[.....]
Made in Newcastle is collective of around 20 independent designers, makers and artists. In just a month they have transformed a four storey empty store into a thriving pop-up shop / gallery in the heart of Newcastle.
Primarily a retail area, Made in Newcastle offers a good selection of work by local designers /[.....]
On a rainy Saturday afternoon jewellery makers, designers and small business owners gathered in Fred Aldous’ basement studio, to listen to Lady Luck Rules OK owner Leona Baker share the secrets of her success.
From 2003 to 2010 Lady Luck Rules OK led the way in pop art jewellery, winning admiration from[.....]
Today sees the launch of Life in a Day, an attempt to capture one day on earth, on film. A sort of video time capsule. The director is Kevin Macdonald. The producer is Ridley Scott. The film maker could be you.
On 24 July you’re invited to capture a snippet of[.....]
Following the success of cult indie brand, Lady Luck Rules OK, and her subsequent sell out talks and workshops, Leona Baker is hitting the road to share her coveted techniques and trade secrets with the crafty folk of the UK. At five different venues Leona will provide oodles of inspiration and a wealth[.....]
It’s fascinating to watch an artist work. On Tuesday I went along to Manchester Craft and Design Centre to see Debbie Smyth installing her exhibition, Threadbare.
I was intrigued to find out how she creates her beautiful thread work and the processes she goes through. As you can probably imagine a lot of[.....]
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