play bar to host first hub event

After convincing myself that finding a venue would be a difficult and costly excersise, we finallly have a home for the first event! The play bar on old street have offered us exclusive use of their upstairs bar on the 26th of October, all we have to do, is ensure that the bar spend is over £500 (shouldn't be hard as most of the creatives I know are partial to a shandy or two!) After a very positive response from the 100% shows at the weekend I am confident that we can attract quite a crowd.

the face of the hub

Well, the excitement was short lived about the hub's new home..there is an exhibition on so we cannot use beaconsfield for thefirst event in October. Nevermind, I am sure we will find somewhere else before too long. In the meantime I have generated an Identity for the hub project. That's the thing about us designers, we are so concerned with the look of things to the extent that I don't feel that my project is really live until I have cards printed. So I was ablle to negotiate a 50/50 deal with a printers for fulll colour mailers which would have been great, however with precisely no time to design them and get them printed before next weeks design week in London I have managed to blag some freebie cards from good old Thomas and Sons, stationery printers of distinction. Bernard you are a true gentleman.

A home for the hub?

It is taking a while to come together but we are exploring a possible venue for the creative hub events. We have been pointed in the direction of BEACONSFIELD Not to be confused with the Buckinghamshire town of the same name, this is an arts venue in Vauxhall. It looks like a really interesting space and will hopefully encourage visitors to travel south of the river. We need to make an unreasonable demand of the owners...to let us use the venue for free, fingers crossed.

Three heads are better than one

I am pleased to say that the team at the centre of the creative hub has tripled in size thanks to the input of two talented creatives who have said yes to the possibility of this project. Props to Alan and Miguel. We met last week to discuss how the project could be taken forward and who we would like to be involved. For me personally it was especially exciting to have the input of other parties as it serves to validate the idea. Look out for post from them coming soon!