Posted by jamesb on 11:43 pm
Hello,
The judges all came back today with their choices in the four categories (Update: see also the peoples’ choice winner). So, without further ado the winners of the four categories are:
Loved the idea of just painting over somebody else’s work and making it your own. We also loved that they weren’t actually damaging the pieces but kind of preserving them. We loved these. Anthony and Alison
Most Innovative Piece: Zip Earrings by JollyGood.
This is so simple and effective. Wayne Hemingway
Appeal / Playfulness: The Sew It Yourself Giraffe by Loglike.
This is fantastic – simple idea, brilliantly done. I’d immediately want to buy this – I love that it has a little retro vibe but it totally contemporary and new-seeming at the same time (I mean new in terms of idea, obviously, not new in terms of materials). A really goo example of taking something old and making it absolutely modern. Also, I really love the look of it and the bold simplicity of the idea. I’d like to own one. India knight
Quality of Craft Work: The Denby Chair + Pixar Lamp by Blackalbino
I love the detail that has gone into renovating this old chair and lamp. You can see from the standard of craftsmanship of the collage that this must have taken a great deal of time and precision. I particularly love the use of the old post cards and stamps I LOVE vintage images and it makes this very unique
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Posted by jamesb on 9:48 pm
We’ve had 132 146 entries to the Upcycle competition and we’ve been overwhelmed by the effort and the thought that has gone into so many of the pieces. Thank you so much all of you who took part. You can see them all here.
This is one of our favourites in the office:
The judges have spent today going through the entries and choosing their winners. Each judge was responsible for the following category:
- 1. Most innovative piece: Wayne Hemingway MBE
- 2. Quality of craft work / ‘craftsmanship’: Louise Roe
- 3. Best use of materials: Antoni and Alison
- 4. ‘Appeal’ which kinda means playfulness / fun: India Knight
And lastly,
- 5. The people’s choice – as chosen by number of favourites the item receives on Folksy!
We’ll put up the judges decisions tomorrow (Monday). But now it’s over to you to favourite the items you like and to choose the Folksy users’ winner. You have until Thurs 10th at 8pm to nominate your favourite. Each of the 5 winners will get to showcase their portfolio in the Sue Ryder Care Camden store in the New Year (February), in a specially constructed Folksy set. [Update: voting has now closed, and the winners have been announced]
Of course the auction starts tomorrow and will run for one week. We’ll be blogging and tweeting about that. It’s going to be held on eBay. We were going to use our own auction software but in the end we thought that the sheer size of eBay and it’s customer base would generate better prices for Sue Ryder Care. Because it’s for charity all proceeds will be exempt from eBay charges.
That’s it. More tomorrow. 
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Posted by admin on 8:14 am
Hello.
Christmas is so predictable isn’t it? It’s the same day every year, relatives you haven’t seen for 12 mths appear and we shop in that time-honoured mad panic where good intentions give way to indifference as to whether Uncle Alan will really appreciate that travel coffee mug when he never ventures beyond the local bingo hall.
So we’re running a competition that will put a stop to all that. Sort of.
Upcycle Christmas is a competition for people to take second hand / charity stuff and make it into something ‘new’ and desirable to be sold at an online auction starting on the 7th December. All proceeds from the auction will go to Sue Ryder Care, the healthcare charity, our partners on the project.
The first 200 entrants can claim five items from participating Sue Ryder Care stores. Claim your charity stuff if you haven’t already by getting a ticket and taking it to a participating store (you have to have a Folksy account and include your username when you take your ticket).
UPDATE: Just to be absolutely clear you do not need to use Sue Ryder Care stock to make things with. A lot of people seems to have assumed that you did. And we’re sorry if you don’t live near one of the 14 participating stores but feel free to ask on the forums if someone else will go to a local store for you and post the stuff on
Entries will be judged on the following criteria and a winner will be awarded in the following ‘categories’:
- 1. most innovative piece
- 2. quality of craft work / ‘craftsmanship’
- 3. best use of materials
- 4. ‘appeal’ which kinda means playfulness / fun
- 5. people’s choice – your favourite items as chosen by number of favourites the item receives on Folksy!
There will be a winner chosen from each of the categories. Winners get to showcase their portfolio in the Sue Ryder Care Camden store for one month from the middle of Jan to the middle of Feb in a specially constructed Folksy set. This store is being refurbished over Christmas and will come back in the New Year as a wonderful space to exhibit your work.
We have two three four judges who will be picking winners:
- The first is Wayne Hemingway MBE, who’s been at the forefront of British design for yonks, initially with Red or Dead and now moving into architecture and built environment (inc. sheds!). He was also instrumental in educating all of us daily with his slot on The Big Breakfast (you can see him on the penultimate show on this youtube clip).
- The second Louise Roe, the fashion journalist and ex BBC Clothes Show presenter who now guests on programmes like Britain’s Next Top Model. She’s like Mrs F.A.S.H.I.O.N. Follow Louise on twitter @louiseroe
- The third is India Knight (wikipedia), the columnist, champion of craft and making, and author of amongst other things The Thrift Book: How to Live Well and Spend Less (Foyles :: Amazon), one of the bibles here at Folksy Towers and core to the idea of Upcycling Christmas. Follow India on twitter @Indiaknight
- Lastly, we have Antoni and Alison the very fashionable fashion designers who ran away with rave reviews from this year’s London Fashion Week.
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Posted by admin on 9:33 pm
Here are some competitions that you might like to enter:
Design-a-duvet for Fou Furnishings
The organic bed linen company, Fou Furnishings, is marking Organic Fortnight 5-20 September with a competition for budding designers, big or small.
A 2009 Organic and Natural Products finalist, Fou Furnishings wants to encourage the next generation to think green.
The brief: design an image for a child
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Posted by admin on 12:56 pm
We have a winner for our fashioning technology competition. Suw kindly agreed to judge the competition and judged the best entry as Tech Head Fascinator:
A 2Gb iPod shuffle and a copy of the Craftzine Fashioning Technology book is wending it’s way to hatastic.
Suw said :
“It shows a lot of imagination and I like its playfulness and irreverence – it’s a different spin on steampunk, more like USBpunk perhaps! Plus it’s a great way to recycle bits and pieces that really are otherwise destined it languish in landfill.”
We only received two entries to the competition, which was fewer than we’d hoped for, we’ll be sending out a Fashioning Technology book to the other winner Lucy for Leather tech pockets, another great entry.
We have a few Fashioning Technology books left over so we’ll be sending these out to our other favourite Makes in the making section, so if you’ve published a make check your mailbox, you might find a little pressie in there !
Thanks again to Suw for judging and to our winners for entering.
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Posted by admin on 12:47 am
Hello.
We thought it was about time we had a competition. We like competitions. But ‘proper’ competitions. None of this “we’re all winners”, liberal hogwash, we want to engender the sort of feverish, salivating, chest beating mentality where people strive to win at all costs. The sort of behaviour that’s only evident now by parents on Schools Sports Days where genteel people become animals. THAT.
Anyway, the competition is simple:
- Create a MAKE that either includes some form of technology (lights, noises, wires!) or that compliments a ‘piece’ of technology, things like ipod covers, ear muffs with headphones inside, laptop bags, laptop adornments etc. etc.
- Your Make must not have been published elsewhere – it can be similar to one you may have made and published elsewhere but your entry must be original to you
- Tag your Make “fashioningtechnology” so we know you wish to enter.
- Entries need to be in by the 31st May
Prizes and Judging
- Entries are going to be judged by Suw. Suw is a internet guru and jewellery maker and has a keen interest in technology stuff, so we thought she’d be an ideal judge.
- First prize is a (new model) 2gb iPod shuffle and a copy of the O’Reilly book Fashioning Technology (also see the associated website which is choca full of ideas).
- Three runners-up will receive copies of the same O’Reilly book Fashioning Technology
- Winners will be announced on the 6th June
- The first qualifying entry will also receive a copy of the book – and we’ll get that out as soon as the entry is made!
The competition book prize has been kindly sponsored by O’Reilly and the Make team. Thanks guys!
Please do put any competition questions and comments you have in the comments here.
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Posted by admin on 11:28 pm
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We’ve long been fans of the sort of stuff that you see in Make and Craft, the stuff that’s a bit whacky, a bit bonkers and all the more interesting because of it. Well we’re hoping for the same sort of playfulness with our new project, Makers and Hackers.
Makers and Hackers is a competition organised by Folksy and Tinker.it (who do lots of electronics workshops and are generally pretty smart and interesting folk) and sponsored by Maker Faire.
The Competition
Check out the site for more info, but in brief:
- You have to make something using an arduino or electronics and craft stuff (wool, wood, metal, cotton, felt, wax, whatever!).
- Entries need to be around the theme of Household Items of the Future! Look around your house for inspiration
- Work something up yourself or at one of the Make days in London or Sheffield on the 28th February which you can reserve a place at here. We’ll be putting on food and drink and help with materials and electronics (but you need to bring with you what you think you need to make your thing)
- On the day we’ll announce winners chosen by a panel of of crafty geeks. Four items will win a prize of
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Posted by admin on 12:30 am
We had thirteen entries for the craft as news competition. We’ve enjoyed going through them and seeing what news story inspired the pieces – and there are a range of influences and interpretations making this all-the-more interesting as a project. Huge thankyous for those that took part.
Laura from Robson and Mason (store :: blog) will be picking her favourite piece(s) to receive the books. You will be deciding who wins the
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Posted by admin on 5:59 am
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The News competition closes on the 9th – this Friday! Since the competition was launched on the 8th of Dec we’ve had lots of stories to go at. What have you chosen?
If you haven’t seen the competition until now you still have time to enter. Post your entry to the “Make the News” Flickr group with a description saying which story your design relates to. We’ll post these here on the blog on Friday (closes at midnight GMT) for people to vote on over the weekend. The vote will be in comments here, like the Folksy Angels comp. Additionally Laura from Robson and Mason will pick her favourite entry to receive a selection of craft books:
- Weekend Crochet for Babies by Sue Whiting (Amazon UK)
- Beautiful Crochet for Heads, Hands and Toes by Melody Griffiths (Amazon UK)
- Beautiful Knits for Heads, Hands and Toes by Alison Dupernex (Amazon UK)
And that was the news today, good day
Link to Comp
UPDATE. Sorry, we (I) made a mistake when posting this article. I said that the deadline was the 9th when in fact it is was the 7th (the 9th was the deadline for voting). I’m really sorry. Having said that it was the 9th in this article I feel compelled to extend it this new deadline, so you have until Fri, midnight, to submit. Apologies again for the cock-up.
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Posted by admin on 3:07 pm
News is communicated in lots of different ways. Through images, which often become iconic (think of Margaret Thatcher waving out of the window at No. 10 as she was ousted, or sunshine in the artic for global warming stories), through satire, such as cartoons (I love Martin Rowson’s work) and of course through text. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a go at representing the news in craft form? Topical craft!
This post on The Storque prompted my interest. Obama mania crept into craft stuff. Sellers realised topical things, especially of the chosen one, would sell. I’m not sure that’s always going to be the case, but it would be fun to have a different take on the news, through craft (drawings, prints, simple made objects). So, let’s try and create the slowest news ever and make the news in craft form?
Laura, of the excellent haberdashers Robson and Mason has offered up
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