Mar 31, 2010

Summer Fair Exhibitors Announced

We are pleased and excited to announce our full exhibitor list for our Summer Fair at Chelsea Town Hall on the 26th June 2010.

Here is a list of all the sellers, over the next few months we will feature each seller to give you a taster of their fantastic work.




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Mar 15, 2010

Summer Fair Sponsors


We are pleased and excited to announce our sponsors for the summer fair.
Main Headline Sponsor:
Etsy:

www.etsy.com
Etsy will be our main headline sponsor for the fair. Etsy will be at the fair and helping to promote the whole event.
Founded in 2005 and based in Brooklyn, New York, Etsy is an online marketplace for buying and selling handmade goods. Their aim is to restore community to world's economies by reconnecting makers and buyers.
This year they opened their first office outside of the United States in Berlin, Germany, and have hired community supporters on the ground in London and Paris. In Etsy Labs Berlin, their German office, and throughout Europe, they will hold regular community gatherings, events, classes, and parties. More importantly, they will work closely with, support, and receive guidance from the artists of Europe as we fully internationalize Etsy.com, not just for them, but with them.
Additional Sponsors:
Mr Site:


www.mrsite.com
Mr Site will also be at the fair.
With Mr Site's multi-award winning website builder, the Takeaway Website, you can create your own professional dot com website and get it online in moments (e.g. www.yourname.com).
Created by leading web designers, simply select a website design from the hundreds available and easily customise to make it unique.
Drop in pictures, text, logos, music and videos and you're done. It's jargon free, easy to use with the Mr Site team there to help you every step of the way should you need it.
Features include your own dot com name, sell online with your own secure online shop, hosting, email, photo galleries, statistics and much more.
Craft Central:


www.craftcentral.org.uk/
Craft Central, the new name for Clerkenwell Green Association, is a pioneering not-for-profit organisation established over 25 years that is dedicated to building a strong future for craft and design.
Crafts people and designer-makers can join Craft Central’s Designers’ Network, show work in exhibitions or in the online gallery, rent work spaces and get practical business help.
Individuals interested in craft and design, can visit ground-breaking events and exhibitions, use resources to source and buy original products, commission unique one-off pieces and support Craft Central’s non-profit work.
Craft Central gives everyone the chance to discover a world of craft and design that is more extensive, more inspiring and more accessible than most could ever imagine.
UkHandmade:


http://ukhandmade.co.uk/magazine/
UkHandmade will also be at the fair.
UK Handmade is a design led online magazine committed to showcasing and promoting the best creative talent the UK has to offer. Artists and designers from across all of the art disciplines have a place here including photography, feltmaking, jewellery, fashion and art.
In a time when people are realising the importance of spending quality time with the family, small businesses are being started from the kitchen table and becoming an integral part of our overall lifestyle Uk Handmade wants to bring back the skills of our grandparents, grow vegetables with our children, to make do and mend and return to an ideology that previous generations took for granted.
But we they realists too; in order to live like this in today’s world we need to be financially self-sufficient. An increasing number of online selling venues are allowing makers and designers to sell their goods with very little set up costs and as a result handmade items are currently experiencing a renaissance.
The term 'handmade' is now an indicator of quality, care and professionalism that is second to none and something we at UK Handmade wish to encourage and celebrate.

Yelp:
www.yelp.co.uk
Yelp will be also be at the fair.
Yelp is the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what's great - and not so great, in your area.
With online reviews and weekly newsletters Yelp is a great way of finding out what is happening in your local area.
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Feb 24, 2010

Opportunity For Indie Designer Makers


Craft Guerrilla are a collective based in East London, they have an exciting opportunity for Indie designer makers.

Craft Guerrilla have been really lucky to have the opportunity to get involved in the Knitting and Stitching Shows in London, Harrogate and Dublin and they are able to offer six indie designer makers at each of the three locations the chance to have a stall for free exhibiting alongside Craft Guerrilla.

They are inviting people to send in submissions to them by mid-March, initially of photos of their work and a few words on what this opportunity would mean to them and the development of their craft business. The second round will then be conducted by phone/email interview and requests for samples and we will make a descision by May.

Check out their Facebook event for further info http://www.facebook.com/craftguerrilla?ref=profile#!/event.php?eid=347408039174&ref=mf
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Jan 21, 2010

An Interesting Subject ....

As supporters of all things handmade We Make found Lady Luck Rules OKs recent post about Artwork theft interesting.

Artist and Designers selling both online and offline are open to people imitating there work.

Our own ethos at We Make is to support artist and designers, giving them a platform to sell there work amongst other like minded artist and designers. So they aren't competing with mass produced imitation products.

We constantly receive positive feedback from customers at our fair, commenting on the quality and originality of the products.
This therefore is making people more aware of the brilliance of handmade products.

We Make doesn't support any kind of copying, part of the joy of handmade is being individual.
It is inspiring to see all of our sellers work and the passion they have for it. So by copying the passion is lost and the individuality.

Lady Luck Rules OK, share there experiences and offer some useful tips to designers if this was to happen to them. To read Lady Luck Rules OK post click here

http://www.ladyluckrulesok.com/journal/2010/01/artwork_theft.php
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Jan 14, 2010

Summer Fair Details Announced




We are excited to announce the details of our Summer fair.

It will be held at Chelsea Town Hall, Kings Road, London, SW3 5EE on the 26th June 2010.

This will be our 6th fair and our second at Chelsea Town Hall. It will also take place a few days after We Makes 2nd birthday so it will be a fun summer event.

We are now open up the application process for this fair.

The deadline for applications is midnight on 28th February.

We will then let everyone know if they have a stall by the end of the second week of March.

To apply please email us for more details and an application form at wemakelondon@googlemail.com
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Jan 6, 2010

Happy New Year

We hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year.

The We Make team are back and working on our next fair, details will be announced later this week.

Our christmas fair at Chelsea Town Hall was a fantastic day, there was lots of visitors and lots of sales.

Here are some pictures of the fair. These photographs were taken by Emma In Wonderland http://www.folksy.com/shops/EmmainWonderland


We Make banner outside the town hall


We Make golf sign


Our main sponsor, The Make Lounge, with there fun Creation Station


The Furies Choir


Stage area in the main hall


Main Hall


Main Hall


Lady Luck Rules Ok


Emma in Wonderland



Cassia Beck and Pipnstuff



Licorice Kids
















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