FOCUS: Spring Issue of UK Handmade Magazine released today!
The Spring issue of UK Handmade Magazine is live and ready to read online HERE (click on the enlarge button to the bottom left to read it full screen) or buy the PDF download here and help support UK Handmade!
In recent years, “making” has emerged as a tonic to the fast pace of modern life. So, this Spring issue is all about the role of arts and crafts in the community. We have a myriad of inspirational interviews with those creating positive change through arts and crafts in their own communities.
This issue also features a selection of beautiful Spring-fresh products from exciting UK designer-makers, book reviews on the Social Meaning of Creativity and Craft Activism, business advice on bricks and mortar selling and engaging with your audience as well as tutorials, gardening and recipe ideas to help you make 2012 an enriching year.
So why not put the kettle on, take a well earned break and read about some truly inspirational people, projects, products and events!
Comments
Review of "Making is Connecting"
Good to see a book like this reviewed here, but I don't think that Lisa Payne needs to be concerned that craft is being intellectualised, or that exhibitions like The Power of Making might be "alienating those we should be connecting with". Since early man, there have always been many different strata and reasons behind why 'craft' objects have been made and that includes intellectual objectives as well as homely and useful crafts, right up to artisan crafts that take lifetimes to learn and pass on....those strands will not disappear. I personally think it refreshing to see some strands of the Crafts taken more seriously in our society, something normally reserved for "fine art" just as Grayson Perry has explored. There are also growing desires amongst makers to understand materials and process, with an appreciation of old and new skills and technologies working together, as well as their relevance to todays world. These sorts of enquiries can only help makers understand the world further and therefore how to connect with those that could benefit.Post new comment