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WORKSHOP: HOW TO INCREASE YOUR SALES

This workshop brought to you by your local design forum and Media-Sauce is for designers who would like to increase their turnover by grow finding new clients and maximising their business with current clients.

BBC LOOKS FOR DESIGNERS

Bbc_thumb Do you believe you’ve invented the next Dyson? Concocted a successor to Innocent Smoothies? Discovered the next Protect and Perfect face cream? Then the BBC wants to hear from you! In a groundbreaking new series, some of Britain’s biggest and best loved high street stores are clearing some shelf space for YOU – the great British public – to sell YOUR products

TRAINING FOR DESIGNERS

Design_train_logo_thumb Following the successful Design Train programme last Autumn we're delighted to be rolling out some more courses to be run in Bristol in the Spring.

FURNITURE DESIGNERS SOUGHT FOR CHINA TRADE MISSION

UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), British Consulate-General Guangzhou is organising a furniture design outward mission to Dongguan and Shenzhen from 15th to 20th March 2010. The mission is designed as a platform for UK designers and design companies to expand their network, to bring attention to their creativity, and most importantly to explore business opportunities in Southern China.

New business guides for designers

Design_council_thumb Do you want advice on new business models or negotiating equity stakes with clients? Perhaps you want to know how to tender for public sector contracts, or need a checklist of employment law for design practices.

TRAINING FOR DESIGNERS BASED IN DEVON & CORNWALL

Designtrainlogosouthwest2009_thumb Locally delivered subsidised training courses for Designers in Project Management, Digital Imaging, Leadership & Management, Service Design and Sustainable Design, Only £120 per course and you may be eligible for Train to Gain funding for the cost.

Gloucestershire Design Network Launches.....

Gdn_thumb Local leading lights from the creative industries were out in force at the launch of the new Gloucestershire Design Network (GDN). The evening event, which took place at the trendy D-Fly Bar in Cheltenham, attracted around 35 invited guests. Guest speakers included Emma Heathcote-James founder of GDN, Roger Proctor, Chair of the South West Design Forum, John Brewer, lecturer in Graphic Design at the University of Gloucestershire; and Richard Hudson, founder of Digitalks...

Want to show your film on the big screen at Glastonbury Festival?

Images_thumb A unique collaboration between the UK's creative agencies including South West Screen and the BBC brings the Village Screen to Glastonbury for the first time this year. The screen will be used to showcase the work of some of the best new film making talent, virals, music promos, digital artists, VJs and games developers from the South West and the UK to over 177 000 people.

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