Design Event 2008

We were invited up to Newcastle for a second year running last October to launch ‘If you could do anything in the North, what would it be?’ We set up some links with the local Universities of Northumbria, Teeside and Sunderland as well alumni from the same course and exhibited a total of sixteen pieces in the heart of Newcastle. Some brilliant responses and artists were shown including Bryan Edmonton from SEA design and Heidi Lightfoot from Together,

For more images have a look at our Flickr.

Design Grotto

Somerset House
London WC2R 1LA
15 – 16 December 2007

Held on the weekend before Christmas at Somerset house in London we asked the question ‘If you could receive anything for Christmas, what would it be?’ to all visitors. Hundreds of christmas lists were illustrated and hung and displayed over the duration of the weekend.

Design Event 07

Old Fire Station, Pilgrim Street. Newcastle
October 2007

Design Event is an annual festival in the North East providing the public with an opportunity to see cutting edge work by regional, national and international design talent. 

We were commissioned to curate an exhibition that would raise environmental awareness to designers and the general public alike. A mix of 12 designers, illustrators and product designers were asked the question 'If you could design anything to improve the way we live, what would it be?'.

For more images have a look at our Flickr.

• Design Event
  www.design-event.co.uk

Village Fete 07

Victoria & Albert Museum
London SW7 2RL
27th - 28th July 2007

In 2007 we returned to the annual Village Fete, and teamed up with Barcelona’s Max-o-Matic to invite the public to ‘inflate a mate at the fete’. Despite the rain, over the two day event about 400 ‘mates’ were inflated and created.

For more images have a look at our Flickr.

• Scarlet Projects
  www.scarletprojects.com
• V&A
  www.vam.ac.uk

Issue 2 Launch

exposure Gallery
London W1W 8BU July 2007

To mark the launch of our second publication an exhibition was held at exposure Gallery, in central London. All 112 pieces included in the book were shown, alongside the 350+ submissions that we also received. 

For more images have a look at our Flickr

• Issue 2 Artwork
• exposure Gallery
  www.exposure.net

The Young Knives

Proud Galleries
Camden NW1 8AH
17 August 2006

‘The Young Knives’, held the launch of their debut album at the ‘Proud Galleries’ in Camden. We were invited to take our Village Fete stall for a second outing that summer with contributions from all invited guests and media, including the band during an interview for MTV2.

• The Young Knives
  www.theyoungknives.com
• Proud Galleries
  www.proud.co.uk

Village Fete 06

Victoria & Albert Museum
London. SW7 2RL
29-30 July 2006

Set in the the John Madejski garden at the V&A Museum in London, the fete acts as an opportunity for the UK’s leading designers to get together and exhibit their take on the traditional village fete. 

We posed the question ‘if you could do anything tomorrow, what would it be?’ to adults and children alike, supplying colourful summer bunting for responses to be drawn, scribbled and doodled.

• Scarlet Projects
  www.scarletprojects.com
• V&A
  www.vam.ac.uk

Issue 1 Launch

hedSpace
Brighton BN2 9UZ
22 April 2006

To celebrate the release of our first publication we held an exhibition of the included artwork at hedSpace in Brighton. Viewers were invited to write their own response onto a eight foot wall, creating a live response to the title of the print pack.

• Issue 1 Artwork
• hedSpace
  www.hedquarters.co.uk

Talks

• ‘How to set up your creative enterprise’ – LCC Enterprise Week November 2007
• ‘What to do once you’ve graduated’ – LCC EXIT Talks May 2007
• ‘The Art of Self Promotion’ – Brighton University November 2006