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LDF and LFW giveaway ~ beyond the valley tickets
Beyond the Valley invites you to a lunchtime talk at the V&A as part of London Design Festival and London Fashion Week. Monday 2oth September at 1pm.
Enjoy an hour of probing loveliness, including a exploratory experience of their SS11 collection. Don’t forget to bring your iPhone to this interactive adventure
MyCake has two pairs of tickets to giveaway, just leave a comment below telling us what design loveliness you are experiencing at the moment. Two winners will be drawn at random after midday on Thursday 16th September.
You can also book tickets here.
have you got a handle on social media?
email marketing company Constant Contact has produced an overview of getting started with social media for small businesses. It has some good tips, even for those of us already networking and email marketing. Download your guide here.
the journey to getting published
by poet Austin Kleon:
…flowchart that compares my own publishing journey with what I was taught in college was the traditional route of becoming a published author. Looking at the chart, it strikes me that no matter what route you take, everything always comes back to the simplest beginning:
Write something good.
It’s easy to get caught up in the madness of the machine, and not get any time to do the thing you love.
The Creative Pathfinder – Your FREE Guide to Success as a Creative Professional
Lateral Action has a new course for professional creatives: The Creative Pathfinder, a practical education in the artistic and professional skills you need to thrive in the real world of the creative industries.
It’s completely free and packed full of great advice, worksheets and resources.
If you’re an artist, designer, writer, actor, musician, filmmaker, or working in another creative field — artistic or commercial – this professional development course has something for you.
take a look at the overview and sign up here.
Risk and the Creative Entrepreneur ~ your thoughts please
Calling all creative entrepreneurs…
The Creative Industries are known for being very risky and yet we have little understanding of how risk affects creative entrepreneurs. Nicky Riley at Birkbeck College is conducting research and is interested in your views on risk and how risk affects you.
Please help by filling out this survey. All fully completed responses will be entered into a prize draw – 4 individual prizes of Amazon vouchers worth £25 will be made and Nicky will contact the winners by email.
Please log on here to complete the questionnaire.
All survey responses will be treated anonymously and findings only reported in the aggregate. Please feel free to contact Nicky if you have any questions and require further information. The survey will be open until Friday 20th August 2010.
We value your feedback for this research very much and thank you for your time.
Folk in a Box play at Tate Britain
Join Folk in a Box (the smallest music venue in Britain), Artic Circle and friends for a musical journey into a lost world. Look out for dinosaurs, rainbows, mountains and rivers as a cast of musicians, puppeteers and artists bring the galleries to life.
The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me ~ a FREE event. Friday 6th August 2010, 6-10pm at Tate Britain
The Uniform Project: Little Black Dresses for Charity
Sustainable fashion and a worthy cause ~ take note. Last year Sheena Matheiken wore the same dress every day for a year to raise funds for the Akanksha Foundation, who provide education to underprivileged children in India. Tomorrow sees the launch of this year’s project ~ each month a different fashionista will wear the Little Black Dress everyday for a month to raise funds for a worthy cause.
Just for fun ~ watch the Uniform Project as each pilot reinvents their LBD using preowned, vintage, handmade and donated accessories to give you month-long lookbooks of sustainable style. Reward their efforts with a donation.
Plus you can get the LBD pattern to make your own ~ here.
V&A Summer Camp
Yay for Friday Lates at the V&A.
The Victoria and Albert Summer Camp starts this evening at 6:30pm and continues tomorrow afternoon. A series of performances, talks and workshops for you to share your design skills with top-notch designers, artists and makers.
The beauty of organisation
Creatives are not always disorganised… check out Joan Rivers organisation of decades of jokes in this clip from her documentary.
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