The Design Conspiracy Blog

Christmas Craftiness

This weekend we took The Design Conspiracy products to the masses. We went on the road, taking this baby on tour. Well, we held a stall at Quorn Christmas Craft Fair in Leicestershire. It's fair that has been running for over 30 years and includes 40 stalls selling either handmade or homemade goods. 

Quite a range of goods were on sale, jewellery, jams & chutneys, knitted items, prints & cards (us), paintings and cakes. It was a really nice atmosphere with christmas songs being played by a local musician, a Santa's grotto and craft tables with things for children to make and do.

With a real trend for craft and the homemade going on in the UK at the moment, it was good to get out there and see what's going on and what people are into. Knitted items and chutneys were very very popular, hand screen printed typographic cards were not so, but we're not down hearted, our online orders are flooding in!

We'd love to get involved with more markets and pop up fairs, so if you know of any that you think we'd be suited to, please drop us a line. Until the next time. Peace.

 

 

Richmond Posters

Been meaning to blog this for a while now, but on my recent trips to Richmond to stay with friends I discovered the '80s advertising posters that still remain on the wall at Richmond station.

There are some real gems that have been covered up for years by the newer advertising frames but were uncovered by staff when a refurbishment program at the station started. There are some more detailed and better writings about the story here and here and some great images here

What really warmed my cockles the last time I visited though, was seeing them now being framed! So they are now being preserved and respected, although not all of them are masterpeices of art or design, they are a moment in time and that's nice.