Show off your handmade beauties with great product shots!
Yeshen Venema is a freelance product and lifestyle photographer, based in East London. He’s been called the ‘Design-maker’s communities favourite photographer” and in the past six months has worked with over 50 designer/makers and small businesses. On the rare occasions when the camera is not in his hand, he blogs for The Design Trust and Heart Home. He is also Co-Founder of We Blog Design an independent network to inform, inspire and connect design bloggers. Here he reminds us of the importance of good product images.
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Meet the Maker… Claire Munday, Beetle Cherry
What made you take the plunge & start selling your work?
I’d always been drawing and making at home, but to be very honest it was spending days in a dead end office job that make me take the final leap! I was pretty clueless when I started out but I’d realised this is what I wanted to do, and no one else was going to do it for me, so I just went for it. I tried a few different avenues and approaches and slowly my confidence, and my business, built up.
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To celebrate one year of London’s great creative get together “The Make Escape” they are inviting makers, would-be makers and people who just like a good night out to attend their Makerversary featuring returning special guests hosting workshops including DIY Couture (collar making), Farcreazy Farid (design a comic strip), Use It Up Wear It Out (paper hats) and Artyard Handmade (decorations). Plus they’ll be exhibiting jigsaw pieces from Save The Children and Craftivists recent campaign I’m A Piece aimed at using craft to stop global hunger. We think it sounds awesome. Details below:
- The Make Escape craft night takes place on the last Tuesday of the month at The Hackney Attic, 270 Mare Street, London, E8 1HE.
- It is run on a voluntarily basis and no cost is ever incurred to participants.
- The 1st birthday takes place on Tuesday May 28th 7.30-11pm.
Grab a friend and go make!
How to win at Social Media by Polly Dugdale
Do you get sucked down the Social Media TIME DRAIN? Here’s how to stop Social Media taking over your life, from Marketing Expert Polly Dugdale, co-Founder of Handmade Horizons.
Are you so busy tweeting, pinning, commenting, thumbs-up-ing, liking and generally SHARING that you often wonder when you are supposed to actually get on with any actual MAKING?!
Do you find yourself at a total loss to explain where the last 2 HOURS have gone, when all you planned to do was put a ‘quick post’ up on Facebook and send out a ‘little tweet’?
Do you justify this time spent by telling yourself that it is all part of your wider marketing strategy?
DANGER… You are like so many others out there… a SOCIAL MEDIA SLAVE!
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Meet Lydia Lapinski from Studio Binky
Love the Folksy Summer School artwork? So do we! The wonderful designs were created by Lydia Lapinski from Studio Binky and they reflect the feel of the event perfectly.
We talked to Lydia about her background, her influences and building a city out of cardboard.
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Hooray for Joy from Folksy shop JoysOfGlass who is featured in this months CraftSeller mag!
Meet the Maker… Helen Billingsley, HBCeramics
What made you take the plunge & start selling your work?
My love for ceramics came from my experience at secondary school, in the 80’s when I was at school there was a bigger emphasis on Art and Craft we had a pottery studio and we had a dedicated ceramics teacher, its such a shame that schools often don’t have the facilities let alone the knowledge and skills to make pottery. If it wasn’t for my positive experience at school and an inspiring group of Art teachers I wouldnt be a potter now.
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Accommodation recommendations for The Folksy Summer School
Image: Inspired Camping
We have put together a list of local hotels, B&B’s and campsites to make your trip to the Folksy Summer School a little more enjoyable!
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Folksy Summer School speaker - Emma Jones
Emma Jones is a business expert and author, and founder of small business support company Enterprise Nation. Her books include ‘Spare Room Start Up’, ‘Working 5 to 9 ‘, ‘Go Global’ and ‘Turn Your Talent into a Business’. She’s a dab hand at starting & growing a business and will be coming to share her knowledge with us at The Folksy Summer School in August. Here’s a little taster of what’s in her brain…….
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From this year, The British Library and 5 others around the country will have the right to receive a copy of every UK electronic publication, on the same basis as they have received print publications such as books, magazines and newspapers for several centuries.
The regulations, known as legal deposit, will ensure that ephemeral materials like websites can be collected, preserved forever and made available to future generations of researchers, providing the fullest possible record of life and society in the UK in the 21st century for people 50, 100, even 200 or more years in the future.
To mark the passing of the new regulations, curators and other experts from all the participating libraries chose the 100 Websites which they judge will be essential reading for future generations researching our life and times in 2013. And Folksy.com is one of them!
According to the British Library, Folksy.com was selected for best representing trends in modern British crafting, as well as demonstrating aesthetic trends from the imagery and colours used on the site.
We couldn’t be more proud of the makers selling on Folksy, not only for making the site what it is today, but now, for helping to create something that future generations will learn from time and time again. Brilliant.
The lovely Gemma Owens from Folksy shop Senor Picklesworth in this months Craftseller mag! Yay!
(via rhubarbinthegarden)
