Tim Rinaldi

Front Cover Feature

• Tobias Kaye, unusual and unique wooden Sounding Bowls

Makers Features

• Mastercrafts - a craft&design exclusive. We go behind the scenes with the new Mastercrafts series on BBC2 presented by Monty Don. Plus special craft&design Reader Offer on the David & Charles book to accompany the series
• Glass Artist, Amanda Simmons, talks about her unusual Journey into Crafts
• Tradition & Heritage... AE Williams Pewter
• Award winning work from Stained Glass Artist, Angharad Whitfi eld: Tipping Point
• Melanie Muir’s distinctive Jewellery Designs, striking patterns in polymer clay
• Liz Welch is a great ambassador for Friendly Plastic, a truly versatile craft material
• The creative potential of metal clay seems limitless in the hands of Tracey Spurgin

Galleries

• Makers Gallery: a range of stunning work from Britain’s talented designer makers
• Coming Up... exhibitions around the UK
• Polymer & Metal Clay Makers Gallery
• Galleries & Exhibitions

Events

• Show Case: Major events at Blenheim Palace and RHS Wisley
• Show Case: Miniatura is at the NEC. A positive year ahead for Craft Carnival
• Show Case: Handarbeit & Hobby, the major international Trade Fair in Cologne. Stitch & Craft has something for everyone at Olympia
• There’s an amazing selection of work at the British Craft Trade Fair... here’s our Preview of what’s in store for trade buyers this year
• Where&When your guide to UK craft fairs in March and April, craft&design subscribers can access information for the whole of 2010 when they log in to our web site.

Courses

• Kilnforming Glass Classes at Warm Glass UK
• Our 2010 Directory of Courses & Workshops, whatever your interests, whether it’s full time, part time, weekend or day courses... you’ll be spoilt for choice!
• Learning to work with metal, Blacksmithing and Jewellery Making courses

Guilds & Associations

• The Guild of Enamellers’ welcome Mr Toshihide Ueeda as a guest tutor

The craft&design Business

• craft&design’s Business Editor, Pete Mosley, is spearheading our major State of the Market Survey and CPD Project

There’s more...

• News... Bullseye Glass are at COLLECT 2010. Hammond Gower take the Best Stand Award at the Wales Spring Fair. They’re Head Over Heels at Brewery Arts. And there’s a Call for Entries for the 2010 Glass Biennale
• News... The Sussex Guild is 40 years old. They’ve gone Japanese in Jersey and there are Textiles in Teddington. The 2010 RDS National Crafts Competition has a Call for Entries for Irish Craftmakers
• News about Metal and Polymer Clay, Suppliers & Courses
• British Textile Artist and teacher, Debbie Siniska, took a turn as a student at the Art in Action Practical Classes last year
• Kaffe Fassett and Steve Klein investigate the concepts of Colour and Transparency
• Our selection of craft (and cookery!) Books
• We welcome potter, Hannah McAndrew, as our new Diary Writer for 2010

And with the Last Word...

• We are delighted to invite Monty Don, presenter of BBC2’s new Mastercrafts series, to have the Last Word in craft&design

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