So the deed is done, the destination is deserted and the design has disappeared. Until next year that is. Closing the doors on the Old Fire Station with over 4,500 visitors at that venue alone, this year’s Bristol Design Festival was by far the biggest, and most certainly the best. As I am sure that [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Design Festivals’
June 11, 2009
On the couch for some design therapy
Oskar Furniture (Whiteladies Road) played hosts to ‘On the Couch with Paul Goodchild’ a hugely successful interior design evening on Tuesday fuelled by free-flowing Pimms and delicious canapés.
Goodchild Interiors, run by Paul and Gill Goodchild, were recently named one of House and Garden’s 100 Best Designers 2009 so expectations were high.
Having been given a drink [...]
June 8, 2009
Same same…but very different
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Back in March Bristol’s best graffiti artists, designers and illustrators vied for the chance to be given one of 26 sets of pure, white, unadulterated Russian Nesting Dolls to customise at their will.
The products of the fertile imaginations of the likes of Cheba, Heidi Gough, and Mr Jago can now be seen at [...]
June 8, 2009
Keeping the Doors Open
Jamaica Studios describes itself as Stokes Croft cultural heart and houses a diverse bunch of illustrators, artists, textile designers and even an embroiderer tucked away in its rabbit warren of white cubes (admittedly white cubes with a fantastic view and great natural light to work in).
But now continued operations are under threat and they need [...]
June 6, 2009
Painting for the next generation
Upfest is an event to showcase the best in up-and-coming talented painters, showing us that an awful lot more can be done with paints than the chocolate-box country cottage watercolour. An event that was a 24 hours of painting across Bristol, I went to the big event at the Tobacco Factory. Walking into the achingly [...]
June 6, 2009
Grafikea – the good, the bad & the WTF?!
Along with a couple hundred others, I thoroughly enjoyed the Bristol Design Festival’s launch party last night, however, I was taking a specific interest in the Grafikea entries. As in previous years, the standard was excellent with some ingenious and occasionally subversive uses for a simple LACK Side Table from your friendly blue and yellow [...]
June 6, 2009
It’s all about the numbers…
It is always a real challenge to try and quantify the success of an exhibition launch. Do you rank its performance on the amount of visitors? The press coverage? The alcohol consumption? Last night the Bristol Design Festival held its launch party at the Old Fire Station, complete with competitions, prizes, speeches, wine, nibbles, music, and everyone seemingly enjoying themselves. To summarise the launch though, let’s look at a few numbers…
May 26, 2009
Design festival mania
Well, we are in good company it seems as the summer is gearing up for a number of design festivals, the first of which is our fab little fest. This will be followed by The London Design Festival which runs from 19-27 September and looks to be a corker. And if you are still thirsty for [...]
