Discusion For Brother Louis

Hey hey!

I had a few ideas of what we could do... theres just so many possibilities! I've already contact 10 companies and places on workshops, but I have a feeling that they probably won't allow us to attend for this thursday since it's such late notice! Here's a few websites i've visited and contacted too for a one day workshop. Some are a bit expensive... but probably worth it.

If we can't find a place, there are the things we could possibly do...

- Make soap! we can recreate soap from scratch... design and reform or make a mould for it to any shape we like. we can do this at home or try and contact this workshop

http://www.genesissoap.co.uk/Bar-Soap-Making-Workshop(1860221).htm

- Use the Chelsea workshop - known to be the biggest metal and wood workshop in london... why don't we take advantage of that?

- Learn from street crafts- people you see on the street making photo frames from wires etc... we can appreciate them.

- visit galleries and place involving crafts- nice to see what other people do...

- Make our own wax candles

- Book Binding

also another website i stumbled across

http://ukhandmade.co.uk/

all the best,

Ronnie x

Yeah we have a lot of things to discuss on Thursday, but first of all we need to determine what sort of publication we want to do for this project and the ethos behind. Here are some different things to think about until we meet:

Which approach are we going to take on this?

What do we want to tell with our publication?

Do we want to go into a specific craft or give a broader picture of handcraft?

Do we want to encourage people to learn handcraft skills or do we just want to inform people?

How do we want to publish this project: which medium/media are we going to use?

In other words: it is vital to reach an agreement on what our goal with this project is and how we are gonna present it. When we know that, then we can start developing visual identity such as logo ect.

As Kieron wrote to us yesterday we are going to work on this project for 5-6 weeks. The faster we find out what we want to achieve and how, the more time we have to create an awesome piece of work!

So be prepared for Thursday guys :D