New Designers

Taking place over two weeks, New Designers offers the chance to see and buy work from over 3000 emerging designers from a host of creative disciplines. The talks and events programme allows visitors to explore the design world through industry leaders and experts who will give talks and tours around the show. ekonglong office cubicle workstation

The programme kicks off with The Design Trust, who are running a start-up day on Thursday 27 June geared towards those looking to start, run or grow a craft or design business. Topics such as financial management, online marketing and finding a studio space will be covered by over 25 professional advisers and organisations including Etsy, Samata Angel and Ideas Tap.

The following Thursday, 4 July, sees the Design Council and Creative and Cultural Skills Network collaborate on a day of talks focusing on design education and working in design in the cultural, public and commercial sectors. Sessions and contributors include Seymourpowell, Clayground Collective and Pecha Kucha style sessions.

For those who want to snap up the latest design trends, experts from The Design Museum and Trend Bible will be running tours of the show, and V&A co-curator Laurie Britton Newell will be speaking about the museum’s upcoming Memory Palace exhibition.

Other contributors to the talks programme include Bishopsland, Hallmark Creative, Craft Central, Arts Thread, Association of Illustrators and the newly opened Goldsmiths’ Centre.

Two Thursday Late sessions, see the show remain open in the evening until 8pm, with special events for visitors.

ABSOLUT Vodka hosts the show’s first Thursday Late session on 27 June, with a curated panel discussion featuring industry heavyweights. Stuart Wood of Heatherwick Studio, D&AD President Neville Brody and textile designer Kitty Joseph will discuss ABSOLUT Icon: What Makes Iconic Design. Creative designer cocktails will be served and the shortlisted entries for ABSOLUT’s bottle design competition will be on display.