Hannah Redden: Useful Contacts

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25/02/2015

Bristol Pound Competition

'Calling all Bristolians' Fancy seeing your art work on our Bristol pound? Here's your chance to enter a competition to be in with the chance for your designs to be featured on £1, £5 or £10 notes!! How awesome would that be?

http://www.thebristolshop.co.uk/collections/bristol-places-landmarks?page=4

Current Bristol £5 Note

Current Bristol £1 Note

Now, what topic shall I enter?...

1. European Green Capital 2015 (£B1 note)

2. Art & culture (£B5 note)

3. Community & diversity (£B10 note)

4. Innovation & Technology (£B20 note)

25/10/2014

So... When should we be posting to all the different Social Media sites?

I've been doing a bit of research on this and have found the following site quite useful:

ADD THIS - Content Engagement Made Simple.

Anytime someone shares, follows, or interacts with a piece of content, there's a good chance AddThis has something to do with it. According to comScore, we reach over 98% of the US — that's more than Facebook or Google. Our team is focused on building the best social tools, content recommendations and targeted advertisements. It's growing like crazy and we're proud to be the leader in content engagement.

Although an American site the information can be transferred across to the UK depending on your market. So, my next plan is to make a schedule!

09/05/2009

'Cotton On Conference'

I attended a really interesting and eye opening conference today all about Cotton . . . This event was organised by The Bishopston Trading Company, Bristol City Council, and howies

Cotton On

"From Plant to Process, from Fair Trade to Fashion Design."

A one-day conference exploring the aspect of cotton and challenging us to find the most sustainable way forward.

Speakers included:

Lucy Siegle, Ethical Living and Observer, environmental journalist. Abigail Petit, Director, Gossypium. Barbara Crowther, Communications Director, Fairtrade Foundation. Claire Durkin, BERR / DfID Joint Trade Policy Unit. Hannah Durrant, Oxfam GB Campaigns. Simon Ferrigno, Organic Exchange. Damien San Filippo, Pesticide Action Network. Tamsin Lejeune, Ethical Fashion Forum. Gillian Lipton, Monsoon. Sam Maher, Labour Behind the Label. Robin Maynard, Campaigns Director, Soil Association. Vanessa Parr, Fairtrade Foundation. Monica Philbrick, Traidcraft. Carolyn Whitwell, Bishopston Trading Company.

Workshops lead by :-Fairtrade and Organic clothing pioneers -

People Tree
Ethical Fashion Leaders
Trade Justice Campaigners
The corporate sector government

Just get on with it!

I found this comment on one of my favourite blogs - Design Sponge

I don’t think it’s uncharacteristic of creative minds to have a tendency to veer off into the land of ADD. If you’ve ever thought about starting a business - big or small, why not now? Don’t wait another day, don’t over think it, and don’t spend any more countless hours doing “research” or getting lost in the land of cyberspace surfing the blogosphere, checking your competition or analyzing it.

It really is true I have spent so long planning and preparing to make the next move with my work and designs, I now need to just take the next step and stop coming up with reasons not to . . . .

20/11/2008

Networking

SPEED NETWORKING

I attended a networking event yesterday organised by 'Bristol Creatives'. I can't stress enough just how helpful this organisation has been in helping me get established and connected with other local event and artists.

This event was the first of its kind organised by Bristol Creatives, I was a little sceptical about it to start off with. It was a little like speed dating (not that I have ever been to a speed dating event!) We had five minutes to talk with another artist and then a whistle was blown and we had to find someone new to meet and talk to. After you got used to the idea it worked quite well, I met lots of interesting fellow artists and designers, a few who I had never met before actually knew my work!!

We then moved into a different room where lunch was provided, this was a more informal oppotunity to discuss issues with the other visitors.

I found this event really useful and will definetly attend similar events, Its good practice to just talk about your work and explain what you do. It has made things clearer for me about how I want to develop my work and new posibilities for ways of exhibiting my work and promoting it.

The session was held in 'Salisbury Street Studio' which are a joint partnership with my studio 'In Bristol'. To find out more about In Bristol Workshops, Salisbury Street Studios and what they have to offer visit Bristol Creatives.