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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 … Continue reading
We’ve organised a party for Monday 30th of November at The Fellow Pub (Map) in Kings Cross, London from 18:30. It’s our Christmas do and we wanted to have it with you. The room can hold 60 ish and we’ve saved up and put some money behind the bar so … Continue reading
The lovely people at The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair have offered us two pairs of tickets (worth
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
image by:bekathwia 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 … Continue reading
So, this proved to be a bit more difficult to assess than I thought as we had a lot of ‘dubious’ comments. Having checked the IP addresses for the comments we’ve only counted one comment per IP address. This is not foolproof but it’s the best way we could manage … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading