Liverpool Design Festival

The Design Show: 19th – 21st November 2010

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL The Liverpool Design Festival was launched in November 2009 as a new annual design and contemporary craft festival in Liverpool. In 2009 the Festival incorporated, in its first year, over a dozen events in Liverpool city centre and wider Merseyside area and nearly 8000 people visited or participated in exhibitions, workshops, debates and talks and the Festival saw hundreds of designers from across the UK showcase their work.

The 2010 Festival, building on the success of the previous year’s events, celebrates and promotes quality design, encouraging an appreciation of craft and design by the widest possible audience, providing opportunities for participation, particularly by young people, in design and artistic appreciation whilst also supporting new and emerging practitioners.

The Liverpool Design Festival will run from the 18th November to 27th November 2010.

ABOUT THE DESIGN SHOW The Design Show will be the signature event of the Festival and aims to showcase the best in contemporary design from the North West and the rest of the UK. It will present a selection of exciting and inspiring interior products, glass, ceramics, furniture, lighting, jewellery, textiles and fashion and will run from 19th to 21st November 2010.

We offer an opportunity to launch new ranges in the UK and a high profile event that supports emerging talent and established designers.

CALL FOR ENTRIES The Call For Entries application pack can be downloaded from HERE

Alternatively, if you want a pack emailing to you please email Frank Collins with your contact details and the pack will be emailed or posted to you.

Our standard exhibition shell schemes, complete with power, lighting and name board, at 3m x 1m will be available and you’ll be able to purchase additional square metres to create bigger stands. We can also offer you a space only option allowing you to create and install your own stand.

The deadlines for applications and price points: Apply before May 31st and if you’re selected you’ll qualify for the Early Bird Offer of a standard shell scheme of 3m x 1m at £250 plus £50 per additional square metre required.

Prices will revert to the standard charge of £350 per 3m x 1m shell scheme plus £50 per additional square metre required if you successfully apply after May 31st .

We welcome applications from group exhibitors and stand sharers conditional on all exhibitors on the stand being successfully selected by the panel.

JUDGING PANELS For interior products and design and contemporary craft (including furniture, glass, ceramics, lighting, jewellery, textiles and wall coverings) our independent selection panel includes: Maureen Bampton, Director – Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool / Beatrice Mayfield, Maker Development Manager – Crafts Council / Frank Collins, Design Show Project Manager – Design Initiative / David Grimshaw, Programme Leader, 3D Design – MMU / Dick Mawdsley, Director – Utility / Claire Norcross, Designer – Jerwood Prize exhibitor

We also have an independent selection panel looking at specifically at designer fashion and fashion accessories (e.g. jewellery, other wearables and bags) including: Joanne Watkinson, Head Buyer for mywardrobe.com / Kirsty Doyle, Luxury womenswear designer and winner Project Catwalk 2006 – www.kirsty-doyle.com

More judges will be announced soon.

OUR VENUE The Design Show will take place at the Grade 1 listed St.George’s Hall in the city centre of Liverpool. St.George’s Hall is widely regarded as one of the finest neo-classical buildings in the world and stands 169ft long and 74ft wide with a tunnel vaulted ceiling – the largest of its kind in Europe. St George’s Hall is central to Liverpool’s Cultural Quarter and is a key part of the area which is a designated World Heritage Site.

MEDIA PROFILE In 2009 the Festival generated the advertising value equivalent of approximately £130,000 in print, web and broadcast media coverage across 60 on and off-line publications, including The Guardian, Easy Jet Traveller Magazine, Big Issue, Your Move, BBC Radio Merseyside, BBC Radio 4, Liverpool Echo, Liverpool Daily Post, Lancashire Telegraph and sites such as Pure Design, Creative Boom and ArtInLiverpool.Com.

If you need further details please contact:

Frank Collins 0161 834 3722 frank@designinit.org.uk

You can also sign up to Festival bulletins on the Festival website www.liverpooldesignfestival.com