DMWM ‘New Routes Handbook’ – a new publication on market opportunities for designer makers in the West Midlands

The ‘New Routes Handbook’ offers an insight into developing new audiences and market opportunities by providing information on makers’ individual approaches to creative practice and career development through the exploration of a number of options for accessing new markets.

To find out more click here.

Welcome to Designer Maker West Midlands (DMWM)

Our aim is to provide information and signpost region, nationally and internationally opportunities which will support makers develop their practices.

The advocate for the designer maker sector in the West Midlands

Designer Maker West Midlands represents the sector, initiating activities, fundraising and adding value and support to activities generated by individual makers and makers’ groups /guilds.

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Discover new ways to promote your work

DMWM in collaboration with Craftspace has recently launched a handbook at the ‘Pushing Boundaries’ Symposium at Staffordshire University, 16 June 2007.

The handbook is intended to act as a continuation of support after the symposium for designer makers wishing to research into new ways to promote their work, practice and profile.

Click here to download the handbook.

Images on the DMWM website by regional designer makers:

Ranbir Kaur, Sian Fletcher, Anna Lorenz, Shivani Patel, Claire Malet, Sheldon Cooney, Ruth Spaak, Dennis Farrell, Clare Henshaw, John Moore, Ros Ingram, Melanie Tomlinson, Pottinger & Cole, Emma Welsh, Martyn Pugh, Cynthia Pearson, Peter Wareing, Yoko Izawa, Louise Chesshire, Matt Fothergill

Designer Maker West Midlands is a Limited Company by Guarantee not for profit

Registered in England and Wales number: 6529943

Registered address: Suite 77, 27 Colmore Row, Birmingham B3 2EW