11th February 2022
Running a creative business with family, especially your life partner, can be a tricky route to follow, but can also bring deep satisfaction and a real sense of striving and celebrating together, of owning your best moments completely and living out what you believe in. The Design-Nation team often bring up the value of collaboration, … Continued
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2nd February 2022
Continuing our series on the stories behind our new exhibition Design-Nation: Our Journey, this month we explore the second theme, sustainability, and how our exhibitors imbed this into their working lives. (Other blogs related to this show are on the themes of Excellence and Diversity.) We know that “sustainable practice” is much talked about these … Continued
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11th January 2022
Excellence of practice is completely central to Design-Nation’s ethos and has been right at the top of the list of reasons why the DN team love their jobs. Our portfolio is full of talented designers and makers who’ve made the grade, assessed and approved by our independent selection panel. It’s hard not to enjoy working … Continued
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5th January 2022
For autumn/winter 2021/22 Design-Nation is exploring the theme of ‘Thinking Big’, looking at individual projects and entire design practices working at significant scale. Here we interviewed Angela Fung of Fung + Bedford, the multi-disciplinary design studio of Angela Fung and Ashley Bedford. Design-Nation began by asking Angela to briefly describe their practice: Angela Fung answered: … Continued
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26th November 2021
We know the value of working with partners and the amazing sparks that can fly when creatives collaborate – it’s intrinsic to Design-Nation’s history and the ongoing success of our portfolio of designer-makers that so much is achieved in partnership. London-based tableware designer Melanie Roseveare of Melody Rose is a great example of this. He … Continued
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23rd November 2021
Ash & Plumb’s solo exhibition Archetypes goes live online on 22 Nov and then can also be viewed at the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh from 2 – 23 December 2021. Barnaby Ash and Dru Plumb have recently also been scaling up their practice in all kinds of way, so what better to time to ask … Continued
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