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Deptford Design Festival 2006

15th to 17th September 2006

A Great Sponsorship Opportunity

'"Deptford is the igniting spark for the future of urban and creative London."'
John Sorrell, Chairman of the London Design Festival

'"Gentrification is likely to take a different form here”'
David Spittles, Evening Standard, 12 July 2006

The organisers of Deptford Design Festival (external link) will showcase many participants including many thriving designers, graphic artists and designer makers of South East London. As part of the larger London Design Festival, Deptford Design will show that this area is a one stop shop for all your design needs.

PLEASE SPONSOR US

  • We would like to invite you to sponsor the Deptford Design Festival.
  • This is a unique opportunity for sponsors to become involved in an event of true originality.
  • It is already attracting attention from the design press in the UK.
  • There are different sponsor levels - with different benefits

Your branding will be seen throughout the promotion of the Deptford Design Festival, in all local and national press regarding the Deptford Design Festival, in the Deptford Design newspaper and on the DD06 website.

Deptford Design Weekend 06

This year, Deptford Design Weekend 06 will take the form of a series of exhibitions. Design partners will host a range of events in and around Creekside, SE8.

Cockpit Arts

Cockpit Arts on Creekside, SE8 will be a London Design Festival information point with printed information about the London-wide Design Festival and a designated information person present at all times. The LDF Information point will be in the foyer of Cockpit Arts, Creekside.

Raw Nerve

Raw Nerve will be hosting Café RSVP on the ground floor of the building for the duration of DD06. Café RSVP will serve coffee and snacks, along with a selection of ‘Foods from Deptford’. The café will also provide information posters of all the events included in the festival.

RSVP @ Spitalfields Market

RSVP is a quarterly networking event organised by the project management team at Raw Nerve. In the past RSVP has sought to strengthen the Deptford Creative industry by bringing it together in a relaxed setting. In September 2006 RSVP aims to transport the event into Central London in order to showcase Deptford’s Creative Industry. The intention is to create awareness about the wealth of creative business and talent within Deptford’s creative community. This will result in broader networking and business opportunities.

RSVP will be featured in the free LDF ‘Official Guide’ with an estimated print run of 80,000 and distributed in over 200 venues across London. RSVP will also be featured on the LDF website which, during the 2005 event, received 70,000 unique visits.

RSVP will exhibit approximately 22 Deptford designers and artists showing furniture, graphics and products. The exhibition will run from Friday 15th September to Sunday 17th September 2006, with a private view/opening on the Friday. The exhibition will be held in a purpose built space on Crispin Place, in Spitalfields’ new market, designed by Norman Foster (Fosters and partners). Like Deptford, this location has gone through a massive amount of regeneration in the past 15 years and is said to hold one of the greatest concentration of artists and craftsmen in Europe. On a normal Sunday the Spitalfields’ markets receive over 25,000 visitors.

This site will act as a satellite site for the Deptford’s creative community. It will showcase Deptford’s designers and makers, creating an awareness and curiosity for London Design Festival and Spitalfield visitors of what Deptford’s Creative community has to offer.

Deptford Design Festival Newspaper

This year, Deptford Design will be publishing a Festival newspaper.
A showcase for Deptford’s talented designers, the newspaper will contain the Festival’s programme of events and a map of where events will be taking place. There will be feature stories on high profile designers such as Committee and Based Upon. Laban and Cockpit Arts will feature in the regeneration section of the newspaper, celebrating Deptford’s changing status in London. The food section will guide people to restaurants and bars in the area – a welcome break from visiting the exhibitions.

The newspaper will be 16 pages and will be just smaller than tabloid size.
The print run will be 15,000 and it will be distributed in several locations across London:

  • To Deptford and Greenwich residents
  • To the Cockpit Arts mailing list (+/-3,000)
  • At the RSVP event in Spitalfields, at the heart of the new Spitalfields Market
  • At the London Design Festival office in the Old Truman Brewery for the length of the festival 15th-30th September 2006
  • At London Design Festival information points around the capital
  • At the Paddington Development Trust events in West London

All sponsors will be given the opportunity to proof all publicity and promotional material before it goes to print, and of course all sponsors and their guests will be invited to the event.

London Design Festival

Established in 2002 to celebrate and promote London as the creative capital of the world, The London Design Festival (LDF) has rapidly grown to become one of the key constituents of the UK’s burgeoning festival season, along with London Fashion Week, Frieze and the London Film Festival.

Speaking at the opening of last year’s Festival, The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP observed that:
“…(the festival) has built up a world-wide reputation for its events, its vision, for cradling the British genius”, and that “…it is a symbol of the message that I believe the LDF is sending around the world – in the new economy success does not happen by accident, it happens by design”.

The LDF has seen visitor numbers increase from 100,000 in 2003 to more than 475,000 in 2005.

The festival received widespread media coverage including over 100 articles and 11 TV and 10 radio features, adding up to £2 million in equivalent advertising spend.

Deptford Design Festival History

The Deptford Design Festival has been running since 2003 and we are now entering into our forth year as one of the main delivery partners for the London Design Festival.

  • In 2003 14 Deptford design companies mounted a fairly traditional exhibition of their work which was displayed in the newly refurbished arches at Resolution Way.
  • In 2004 the companies were challenged to make an exhibit from a 200 litre metal wheelie bin – the theme being Re-Use. The Deptford design companies rose to the challenge and produced a range of exhibits from a metal sofa to a working kiln.
  • In 2005 the resident Deptford design companies produced a “portable table mounted exhibition” – better known as a book. Entitled ‘What’s So Great About SE8?’ the book provided acted as a showcase for the Deptford area and its talented designers.

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