What Are The Most Influential Design Blogs?

What Are The Most Influential Design Blogs?

Whether you’re an interior designer, clothing designer or print maker, great design blogs are an incredible source of inspiration and learning. They are treasure troves of style, images and designs, and can often be a wonderful place to exchange ideas with other designers. Here’s my top list of design blogs you should be following…

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British Ethical Fashion Designer: Ada Zanditon In the Spotlight

www.adazanditon.com

Ada Zanditon, a British, ethical fashion designer, challenges the common stereotypes when it comes to fashion and doing all things ethical.

For Ada, her label is about constructing a system that both allows her to achieve beautiful, luxurious clothing that make her customers look and feel good and one that also takes social and environmental responsibilities for its production and fabrication.

www.adazanditon.com

It's a real sigh of relief when we work with designers who stand up and challenge this highly profitable fashion industry, and sacrifice a bit of their profit margin to supporting social improvement and the environment.  Ultimately, someone somewhere is paying the price for our cheap throw-away fashion culture.  We're proud to support designers who are passionate about social and environmental improvements in the industry... because we are too!!

You can check out a whole load of ethical fabrics perfect for your responsible fashion and interior creations from our eco fabric shop here: http://bit.ly/bHeW9p

Creative Christmas Stocking!

Christmas stockings on a fireplace mantel

Get creative and customise your very own Christmas stocking with designers' leftover fabrics.  We have tones of reclaimed fabrics that are waiting to be rescued, reused and remade into festive stockings. http://bit.ly/S7Uvec

Appliqué beautiful letters, create Christmas scenes and decorative patterns - and send us photos of your marvelous creations!

Get Eco Fabric Vouchers On Your Christmas Wish List!

Great for students worrying about funding their creations, and perfect for us crafty folk who want to splash out on something we wouldn't normally! We'll even send it out in a gorgeously, sparkly Christmas card with a message to the recipient.

Limited availability, so get your request in quickly!

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Don't forget the United Nations Climate Conference today!

The United Nations Climate Conference serves as a meeting for political parties all over the world to discuss climate change.  With this summer's extreme weather attributed to climate change (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/10/extreme-weather-manmade-climate-change), and in light of the disastrous floods we are seeing here in the UK this week, this year's conference particularly resonates with us.

Just small, daily lifestyle changes soon make for big results when it comes to climate change.  We're pleased to be able to help customers make these small changes, by offering ethical fabrics that improve both our environment and the lives of the people who make them.

We're looking forwards to hearing more from the event, and you can find out more here: http://unfccc.int/2860.php

FRIDAY'S SEMINAR | Last two spaces left reduced to £40!

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For more information on all our seminars and lectures: 

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LITTE FABRIC LOVE| Huge thanks for the mention!

"Finally I just discovered Offset Warehouse, while looking for a heavy organic fairtrade cotton. I sent for their sample set and it arrived yesterday. I love the range… They sell reclaimed fabric as well."
The fabrics look amazing there!
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The Royals Make A Stand for Ethical Fashion

Only last week Prince Charles was supporting the Campaign for Wool and it's now Princess Eugenie's time to shine.  The Duke of York's daughter was spotted adorned in ethical fashion label "Beulah", and claims herself to be a big fan: “They are such a great brand, and the fact that they are supporting Anti-Slavery Day is incredible, it’s a cause I truly believe in.”

It just goes to show that the origin of our clothes is important.  Nobody wants to support sweatshops, and labels who are passionate about providing fair wages and offering benefits to the people who create them are first choice to responsible folk like MPs and Royalty.  If the Royals can spare a little time to show support for a fairer and more ethical fashion industry, then we certainly can!

(Princess Eugenie wearing Anti-Slavery brand Beulah) 

For more information and articles on fair-trade fashion check out the resources section on our website http://bit.ly/TzT4cd

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NEW OFFSET SEMINARS |

Our industry experts are on hand to provide you with the core knowledge and skills you need to design, source and manufacture in a socially and environmentally safe way.

SEMINAR ONE:
KEY SKILLS FOR INFORMED DESIGN
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rn the tools required to design in a more efficient, environmentally safe and socially responsible way.
FRIDAY 2ND NOVEMBER: http://bit.ly/T051kJ
THURSDAY 22ND NOVEMBER: http://bit.ly/REJmmB

SEMINAR TWO:
SOURCING AND MANUFACTURING PRODUCTS GLOBALLY
Aimed to equip ethical fashion designers with the knowledge and contacts required to source and manufacture products abroad.
FRIDAY 9TH NOVEMBER: http://bit.ly/P9lRD5
THURSDAY 29TH NOVEMBER: http://bit.ly/TbaxaI


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OFFSET COLLECTIVE EVENT | Free event for ethical designers next Thursday!

From fibre sourcing problems to customs & duties solutions, great marketing ideas and precious PR & sales contacts, the Offset Warehouse Collective event is the perf

ect opportunity to meet and talk with other ethical designers.

This free event is exclusively for ethical designers to get honest opinions from your ethical fashion peers and answers to all those sourcing nightmares. Come and join the discussion at Hamilton House in Vaxuhall, London about the issues you face desigining ethically.

Date: Thursday 25th October 2012
Time: 6.30pm-9pm
Venue: The Riverside, Hamilton House, 5 St George’s Wharf, SW8 2LE

For all enquiries please email info@offsetwarehouse.com and we’ll be happy to help!

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