Jewellery School Students take over Design Space!
01-May-2009
This year the turnover from the Jewellery School into Design Space has been phenomenally high, with a total of 11 ex-Vittoria Street residents being accepted onto the scheme. Seven students from this year’s graduated BA degree, two from the HND and two from the MA courses include: Leila Arghazi, Clare Pardoe, Kate MacAngus, Ellie Murphy, Sangeun Kim, Yezhong Fan, Rebecca Williams, Nobuko Okumura, Sophie Curdworth, Tusheeta David, Sally Collins.
Design Space is an invaluable scheme that provides a shared incubation space and facilities for up to 20 creatives who are committed to starting up a design led business.
Design Space provides beginners in the jewellery business with:
- Free access to shared incubation space for up to 12 months to run the business from
- A fully serviced environment (i.e. workshop facilities/studio space/IT equipment/showcase and meeting area)
- In-house mentoring
- A package of business development support
- Clustering/networking opportunities
This is a fantastic opportunity to kick-start a career without the scary prospect of huge overheads in the first year. And we are delighted to announce that so many of our jewellery students are beginning their journey and creating new businesses. Watch this space and we may have more exciting new progressions from this up and coming collection of individuals.
To contact this scheme please email Kerry O Connor,KatherineCampbell-Legg or Carol Alderson at:design_space@hotmail.co.uk