Liverpool Design Festival 2010 - The Design Show: Call For Entries Announcement
Liverpool Design Festival
The Design Show: 19th – 21st November 2010
Call For Entries Announcement
About The Festival
The Liverpool Design Festival was launched in November 2009 as a new annual design and contemporary craft festival in Liverpool.
In 2009 the Festival incorporated, in its first year, over a dozen events in Liverpool city centre and wider Merseyside area and nearly 8000 people visited or participated in exhibitions, workshops, debates and talks and the Festival saw hundreds of designers from across the UK showcase their work.
The 2010 Festival, building on the success of the previous year’s events, celebrates and promotes quality design, encouraging an appreciation of craft and design by the widest possible audience, providing opportunities for participation, particularly by young people, in design and artistic appreciation whilst also supporting new and emerging practitioners.
The Liverpool Design Festival will run from the 19th November to 28th November 2010.
About The Design Show
The Design Show will be the signature event of the Festival and aims to showcase the best in contemporary design from the North West and the rest of the UK. It will present a selection of exciting and inspiring interior products, glass, ceramics, furniture, lighting, jewellery, textiles and fashion and will run from 19th to 21st November 2010.
The event will also welcome designers producing innovative new work and those that incorporate eco-design practices at the heart of their business. We offer an opportunity to launch new ranges in the UK and a high profile event that supports emerging talent and established designers.
An independent selection panel will select applications and includes: (to date)
Beatrice Mayfield, Maker Development Manager, Crafts Council,
David Grimshaw, Programme Leader Three Dimensional Design at Manchester Metropolitan University,
Claire Norcross, an award winning designer selected for the 2009 Jerwood Contemporary Makers Exhibition
More judges will be announced soon.
Our venue
The Design Show will take place at the Grade 1 listed St.George’s Hall in the city centre of Liverpool. St.George's Hall is widely regarded as one of the finest neo-classical buildings in the world and stands 169ft long and 74ft wide with a tunnel vaulted ceiling - the largest of its kind in Europe.
St George's Hall is central to Liverpool's Cultural Quarter and is a key part of the area which is a designated World Heritage Site.
It offers a ‘must see’ event to visitors and a not to be missed opportunity for designers to show and sell their work, promote their businesses and network with trade and public visitors in a breathtakingly beautiful setting.
Media Profile
In 2009 the Festival generated the advertising value equivalent of approximately £130,000 in print, web and broadcast media coverage across 60 on and off-line publications, including The Guardian, Easy Jet Traveller Magazine, Big Issue, Your Move, BBC Radio Merseyside, BBC Radio 4, Liverpool Echo, Liverpool Daily Post, Lancashire Telegraph and sites such as Pure Design, Creative Boom and ArtInLiverpool.Com.
The Festival will again expect to achieve press and media coverage at local and regional levels as well as attracting significant national interest in 2010.
Call For Entries
The Call For Entries application pack will be available in March and you’ll be able to download that from our website www.liverpooldesignfestival.com soon. If you want a pack emailing to you please email Frank Collins frank@designinit.org.uk with your contact details and the pack will be emailed or posted to you as soon as it is ready.
Our standard exhibition shell schemes, complete with power, lighting and name board, at 3m x 1m will be available and you’ll be able to purchase additional square metres to create bigger stands. We can also offer you a space only option allowing you to create and install your own stand.
The deadlines for applications and price points:
Apply before May 31st and if you’re selected you’ll qualify for the Early Bird Offer of a standard shell scheme of 3m x 1m at £250 plus £50 per additional square metre required.
Prices will revert to the standard charge of £350 per 3m x 1m shell scheme plus £50 per additional square metre required if you successfully apply after May 31st
We welcome applications from group exhibitors and stand sharers conditional on all exhibitors on the stand being successfully selected by the panel.
If you need further details please contact:
Frank Collins
0161 834 3722
frank@designinit.org.uk
You can also sign up to Festival bulletins on the Festival website www.liverpooldesignfestival.com
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