Young Museumaker Winners - July 17th 2010
15 July
Following on from the recent launch of the new Ashington Group (Pitmen Painters) inspired Woodhorn products produced as part of the national museumaker project, youngsters from the county have recently put their minds to the same task. More than 50 young people from Bedlington, Morpeth, Ashington and Whitley Bay worked with mentors to simulate setting up a fashion/design label inspired by the Ashington Group. The labels were developed using professional business planning techniques, and prototypes were produced under the guidance of North East based marketing, business and design entrepreneurs as well as the London College of Fashion.Their brief focused on the business plan, brand and prototype item that Woodhorn could feasibly stock in the museum shop and the winning label would have one of their items taken into production by Woodhorn.
The judging panel including Keith Merrin the Director of Woodhorn, Claudette Bonnick of London College of Fashion and Sallyanne Flemons, Editor of on-line ethical fashion magazine daisygreen.co.uk finally selected the “I Y miners” team from King Edward VI School in Morpeth as the winner.
“The winning design combined functionality with originality and uses Woodhorn’s biggest asset, its historic collections, as inspiration in creating something new that will appeal to our visitors,” said Keith Merrin. “The overall standard or work by all of the young people involved in the project was incredibly high and any one of the product ideas that they came up with could have made it into production. The winning product line will be cloth bags which have designs taken from the museum/archive collections – for example the Leek Show Poster."
Pictured: Keith Merrin with winners Bridie Bloor, Amy Jenson-Boon and Hannah Kinnear from the “I Y miners” team, King Edward VI, Morpeth