Innovate your Interiors Business

 

Calling all interior designers and furniture 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, paints, wood, tiling, lighting or other interiors? Do you design and make soft furnishings, furniture or similar products? Did you know…

 ..you could create your products with materials which are lighter, stronger, cleaner and less expensive? 

...there are paints that can insulate heat, absorb odour and pollution, reflect lighting and are easier to clean?

 ..you could enhance your existing products to protect them and give them new properties?

Facilitator: Ms Pallavi Malhotra, Project Manager, Showcasing Innovation, Newham College of Further Education.

Invited Speaker: David Potter, IPI (Europe) Ltd.

Aimed at: Interior designers, refurbishment, soft furnishings, furniture designers and manufacturers.

Attendees must be: London-based registered sole traders and/or small companies

 

Time & Date:

Tuesday 25th January 2011 10.00am-12.30pm

 

Venue:

Fashion & Textile Museum,

83 Bermondsey Street,

London SE1 3XF

 

Cost:

Free (fully-subsidised)

 

How to book:

BOOK NOW! Places are very limited so you will need to book your ticket to reserve a place. To book please go to http://showcasinginnovation-interiors.eventbrite.com/ to register your place.

Contact: showcasinginnovation@newham.ac.uk

 

Using emerging technologies in your creative business

The possibilities are endless; they 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!

These interactive workshops are led by industry experts, they 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.

 

 

 

*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.

 

  • Newham College of Further Education
  • London Borough of Newham
  • European Union, European Regional Development Fund
  • London Development Agency
  • European Union, European Social Fund
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Skills Funding Agency
  • European Investment Fund