Design Initiative promotes good design, visual arts and contemporary craft from the North West region.
Design Initiative is a specialist regional agency, which works directly with practitioners and commissioners to expand the market in the North West and make it a centre for quality design practice.
Information and advice: We provide practical advice and specialist information to commissioners, purchasers and producers of design, craft and visual arts:
Creative professionals Design Initiative offers one-to-one advice sessions for creative professionals giving advice on portfolio development, presentation or where to look for business support.Commissioners and clients We offer an impartial matchmaking service to help purchasers, commissioners and exhibitors of design, visual art and craft identify the right practitioner for their project. We also offer free professional advice on all aspects of the commissioning process from writing briefs to selection processes.
Visit the ‘Find a Creative’ area to access mini portfolios of many of the region’s creative professionals.
Design initiatives: We organise an ongoing programme of events and initiatives.
These include publications, selling events, awards schemes and trade shows aimed at supporting and promoting young design businesses from the North West in new markets regionally, nationally and internationally.
We also programme regular topical seminars and workshops aimed at both practitioners and commissioners.
For further information dowload our current promotional brochure here: Design Initiative Brochure PDFFor details of our current programme please visit ‘News and Events’. Funded by:
The Liverpool and Manchester Design Initiative Ltd. Reg No: 2900455 Reg Charity No: 1051000 Registered Office: Unit 101, The Tea Factory, 82 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ