5th May 2022
Our friends at the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) support the training and education of craftspeople through traditional college courses, vocational training, apprenticeships, and one-to-one training with a master craftsperson. QEST was founded by the Royal Warrant Holders Association in 1990 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Association and the 90th birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth,…
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26th April 2022
Design-Nation wanted to ask the East Anglia hub a few questions about their way of working, projects etc. Design-Nation started with asking: How many makers and disciplines are involved in East Anglia cluster hub? East Anglia Hub answered: 14; Blacksmith; Leszek Sikon, Ceramics; Kate Welton, Holly Mai Burton, Embroidery/mixed media; Caroline Hyde Brown, Felted &…
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24th March 2022
Concluding our blog series on the stories behind our exhibition Design-Nation: Our Journey, this month we explore the third theme, Diversity, and how our team and exhibitors interpret and celebrate this within craft and design practice. (Our previous blogs have look at the themes of Excellence and Sustainability.) In developing the themes for Our Journey,…
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17th March 2022
Our guest blogger Barbara Chandler hits the Harbour for London Design Week’s opening day: You know it’s spring in decorland when Design Centre Chelsea Harbour engulfs itself in its annual March London Design Week. This time the usual Sunday opening was jettisoned in favour of a rolling virtual programme of global design interviews and…
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8th March 2022
We hope our blog offers ways to explore the people and stories of the Design-Nation community that are not always evident through our social media. Today we launch a new blog series profiling our Cluster Hubs, networks of Design-Nation members who connect regionally (or sometimes by common theme) on a regular basis. There are currently…
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1st March 2022
Our guest blogger Barbara Chandler writes with her customary élan about her recent visit to The Hub for the opening of Our Journey. “This used to be a seed warehouse. It still is!” – that’s the motto of The Hub in Sleaford. inscribed in gold on a leather plaque. The building, you see, which opened…
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