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Enquiring Minds: new Design-Nation members

31st August 2021

Our membership panel met recently to consider yet more applications to join the Design-Nation portfolio. Standards remain impressively high and we’re seeing increasing levels of courage as contemporary makers tackle sometimes troubling and complex questions about how we live, designing and creating entirely original solutions. We are pleased to welcome sixteen new members this summer: … Continued

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Award-Winning Craft and Design

11th June 2021

Several of Design-Nation’s talented designers are in the news with award-winning projects and products – and some great nominations too. We congratulate them all. In April Aberdeenshire-based furniture designer Jonathan Rose, exhibiting his piece “Soft Kist” in the Scottish Furniture Makers’ exhibition “Adjust/ Adapt“, won the Scottish Forestry award for best use of Scottish Ash. … Continued

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Our Lucky Number is Seven: Introducing New Members

1st June 2021

Our latest membership call-out has resulted in another seven new full Design-Nation members. Seven’s been a recurring number in our recruitments in the last couple of years  – but we promise that it’s a coincidence rather than a target that we give to our hardworking selection panels. (And to be honest it’s not strictly true … Continued

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Celebrating Materials and Form: we partner with The Pewterers

12th May 2021

Design-Nation is delighted to announce our new partnership with The Worshipful Company of Pewterers for their annual celebration of craft in this beautiful material, Pewter Live. In 2021 Pewter Live will be a virtual event running from 18 to 20 May, with the ambition of encouraging innovation in design in order to exploit pewter to … Continued

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Design-Nation Goes to Chelsea

6th May 2021

As spring unfurls its leaves and flowers appear, beautiful sprouts of new design growth will also be at London Design Week, through the presence of ten inspiring designer-makers from the Design-Nation portfolio. In the stylish interior of Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, Design-Nation will show flooring, tiles, lighting, furniture, textiles and decorative vessels, sensitively designed, expertly … Continued

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Time-lapse: an exhibition by our Cornwall & Devon Cluster Hub

23rd April 2021

Formed in June 2020, the Cornwall and Devon Cluster Hub is part of a growing initiative by Design-Nation to foster links between its members within regions and localities, and one that has been very timely since the advent of lockdowns and the sense of isolation created by these. The group has a new exhibition opening … Continued

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