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Unique to craft&design

• Give Your Business a Boost - at the craft&design Seminar - Business Essentials from the Business Experts
• craft&design Selected Awards 2011 - The Public Vote opens on 1st January
• What are you doing for Craft & Design Month in May 2011?

Front Cover Feature

• Fiaz Elson, winner of the craft&design Award at The British Glass Biennale 2010

Makers Features

• Erin Dickson, winner of the craft&design Highly Commended Award at the British Glass Biennale 2010
• Okra Glass, intriguingly iridescent and highly collectable.
• Lara Aldridge Glass: talking to Jon and Lara about their Journey into Crafts
• Ruth Ball’s extraordinarily diverse range of Enamel Designs
• British and Danish Enamellers Create Fusion
• Hannah McAndrew bows out in style with her final Diary of a Craftworker

Galleries

• Spectacular work by specialist glass artists in the London Glassblowing Gallery
• Glass Artists and more at the Ruskin Glass Centre, a hub of craft and creativity
• The Glass Makers Gallery - a showcase of work by 25 of the UK’s most creative glass artists
• The Enamelling Makers Gallery, colourful creativity from Britain’s enamelling artists
• Award Winning Work in our Makers Gallery
• 45 Southside - success in the South West
• Staacks celebrates its first anniversary
• Coming Up at a UK Gallery soon with....
• ... a diary of Gallery Exhibitions and Craft Fairs

Craft Supplies

• Suppliers of materials, equipment & services in our 2011 Directory of Craft Supplies

Students & Graduates

• Showcasing the work of Elaine Johnson and Lucy Vickers
• Starting Up - tips on starting, growing and surviving in business
• The Embroiderers’ Guild Graduates
• Powerful Exhibition Submission - what do selection panels look for?

Business

• Using Photography to help you promote and sell your work - interview with Paul Mounsey
• Taking card payments at shows, we guide you through the minefield

Events

• Living Crafts at Hatfi eld House and Blenheim Palace during Craft & Design Month May 2011
• Craft, Sculpture & Art Fairs, two exciting new events for designer-makers
• h+h Cologne, the International Trade Fair for Creative Handicraft+Hobby Supplies. And we have tickets to give away for Make it!
• The ever popular Textile Showcase in Jersey and Wonderwool Wales in Builth Wells
• Eastern Events launch their new website. The philosophy behind the Potfest competition.

There’s more...

• Face of Crafts: Victoria Scholes, Chairperson of the Contemporary Glass Society
• News about the Guild of Enamellers’ Bursary Award and the prestigious Pewter Live Competition
• Sewing Holidays with Arena Travel; Dremel’s new Glue Guns and a QEST Scholarship helps a trainee Saddler
• Six pages of global Glass news: Designer Makers, Associations & Societies, Books, Fairs & Exhibitions, Courses, Conferences, Competitions, Commissions and more
• Les Maitres d’Art - what can we learn about keeping Living National Treasures alive?

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