Category: Archive
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Working for Social Good: Meet Jade Ilke Erguvanli
Tell me about your job… I am the founder of designing futures, which is a consultancy offering strategy coaching to businesses, individuals and young people; in some cases the coaching turns into live projects afterwards to support the aims of the person or entity I am working with. How did you come to be involved…
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What Does This Girl Make? Meet Willemien Meijer
Could you introduce yourself, what is your background? My name is Willemien Meijer and I am 23 years old. I am Dutch, although I was born in Wales and lived there for the first six years of my life. I recently graduated from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, where I studied Three Dimensional Design.…
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Feeling Inspired: Meet Diggory Rush
Following last week’s post, which featured an article with inspiring furniture maker and woodwork teacher, Helen Welch, I felt it would be interesting to catch up with one of her past students, and see just how much of a butterfly effect she created. Diggory Rush is a recent graduate from London Metropolitan University, where he…
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The London School of Furniture Making: Meet Helen Welch
Although there haven’t been many blog posts for some time, this is not a true depiction of how busy and action-packed the end of 2018 turned out to be. In between settling into the 9-5 of work life, and continuing with my various projects, I found some free time to research other makers on social…
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Brogan Cox: Making the Most of Opportunities
This is the final installment in the blog series about building a successful brand, following the inspiring talk by Brogan Cox at the Furniture Maker’s Hall last month. Making a business as a craftsperson or designer is tough, but not impossible. Whilst ensuring you have enough work coming in to make rent, or to reinvest…
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Brogan Cox: The Brand Triangle
This is the next installment in this series of blog posts reflecting on the really insightful talk from Brogan Cox that took place last month at the Furniture Maker’s Hall. Identifying your role models is the first step to developing the first link in the chain to a successful business. The chain goes as follows:…
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Brogan Cox: Find Your Role Models
It seems like so long ago now, but it was only last month that I travelled to London for a talk hosted at the Furniture Maker’s Hall. It was a seminar set up for members of their Young Furniture Makers community consisting of guest speakers: Brogan Cox (of http://www.sebastiancox.co.uk), Rod Wales (of http://www.walesandwales.com), and Danny…
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Girls on Site: Working with Women
This is the final installment in this series of blog posts about working on site, and what a journey it has been! The experience demonstrated that although I have finished my degree and no longer have formal access to a workshop, it does not mean it is the end of the road with regards to…
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Girls on Site: The Making & Fitting
Just as a quick recap, I was commissioned to be part of this project by designing and making fitted storage solutions and a desk space for the Young Women’s Music Project in their new home at Makespace, Oxford. After four busy days of designing and logistical organising, it was soon time to throw myself…
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