Innovate your Creative
Business
Calling all creative
designer-makers! How to improve and enhance your products, create
new ones and get business support to help you do so!
Do you work with fabrics? Do
you design and make fashion, textiles or other
products?
Did you know…
..you could create
your products with materials which are lighter, stronger, cleaner
and less expensive?
..you could enhance
your existing products to protect them and give them new
properties?
The possibilities are endless, but include treating silk to
become water-resistant and oil-proof, treating metals to keep their
shine and become rust-proof, enhancing garments so they are
anti-microbial and fire-retardant, the list goes on!
This interactive workshop led by industry experts will provide
an introduction to the ‘emerging technologies’ that make all this a
possibility. It will give you an opportunity to explore the
potential for enhancing your products, growing your business and
even creating exciting new products for your target markets.
You’ll get the chance to road-test a few products already on the
market in a practical, hands-on session. Plus you will get the
opportunity to sign onto the Showcasing Innovation programme, which
can give you fully-subsidised practical help to implement the
products in your business.
Facilitator: Ms Pallavi Malhotra, Project Manager, Showcasing
Innovation, Newham College of Further Education.
Invited Speaker: David Potter, IPI (Europe) Ltd.
Aimed at Creative Industries: fashion, jewellery, textile,
furniture and product designers and manufacturers.
Attendees must be: London-based registered sole traders and/or
small companies
Time & Date: Tuesday 8th February 2011. Networking from
6.00pm-6:30pm. Workhop from 6:30pm - 8.00 pm
Venue: London Fashion & Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey
Street, SE1 3XF
Cost: Free (fully-subsidised)
BOOK NOW! Places are very limited so you will need to book your
ticket to reserve a place.
Click
here to register your place.
Email: showcasinginnovation@newham.ac.uk
Tel: 020 8522 5738 quoting 'Showcasing Innovation'
*The Showcasing Innovation Project is part financed by the
European Regional Development Fund and managed by Newham College’s
Discovery Lab. This programme provides support and advice for small
to medium-sized businesses helping them improve business
performance and reduce costs by utilising emerging technology.