Assembly Bradford - Spring 2017 News

SPRING 2017

A place to make things and meet people.

Day and monthly desk rental, design library, print shop.

First Floor Market Pavilion Rawson Place Bradford. BD1 3QQ 07429 542234 hello@assemblybd.com assemblybd.com @assemblybd

Desk rental from ÂŁ7 a day, design library, print shop.

Market Pavilion, Rawson Place, Bradford. BD1 3QQ 07429 542234 hello@assemblybd.com assemblybd.com @assemblybd

Assembly News Martin House competition winners to play at Leeds Fesitival On 20th July, Martin House Children’s Hospice will be hosting the final of their prestigious Centre Stage Competition at the O2 Academy in Leeds, offering the winner the chance to perform at Reading and Leeds Festivals. The competition gives young, local bands and soloists a fantastic platform and exposure whilst raising vital funds for Martin House. With unprecedented support from The Cribs, Embrace, Pulled Apart by Horses and The Pigeon Detectives, all finalists receive personal mentoring from these or other professional musicians in advance of the final and networking opportunities with the music industry in Yorkshire.

Registration is open for young bands interested in applying: www.martinhouse.org.uk or contact ssmith@martinhouse.org.uk Heats on 18th-20th April, Final on 20th July.

How Do print shop produces St Blaise programmes The HowDo?! print shop is now open for business, offering the best value digital printing in town and the only Risograph printer this side of Pudsey. Already, it is proving to be a massive hit among local artists and designers due to its quirky “screen print” style and bold colour overlays. Risograph printing is environmentally friendly and cost effective as it uses soy-based inks and unlike offset printing it only takes a single print for the screen to be fully inked and ready to print thousands of copies.

The Risograph has already been put through its paces with a series of limited edition posters and hundreds of folded maps/programmes for the Bring Back St Blaise Festival 2017; designed by Martyn Johnston and featuring original artwork by Glenn Hustler.

Furthermore, a RISO club has been started for members Assembly Bradford to learn and use the print studio for their own projects at cost price.

Plans afoot for Eat:Drink Bradford Volume 2 Festival Publications and FoxDuo Design will once again collaborate to create a second Volume of the popular Eat:Drink Bradford guide. The publication is expected to launch in August and will feature over 100 restaurants, cafes and bars from across the district. Major sponsors already confirmed include Broadway Bradford and Visit Bradford.

Bradford Bakery Opens Our neighbors downstairs at Bradford Bakery held their grand opening in March, meaning Assembly Members are now able to enjoy freshly baked bread and pastries without leaving the building. The cafe is also offering freshly ground coffee, sandwiches and home-made soup.

Keep an eye out for more beautiful flyers and posters about town, and if you’re interested in doing something RISO, get in touch! ​sales@howdoyorkshire.com

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Launch Party

Assembly Bradford Launch Party 10.02.17 More than 60 people attended the Assembly Bradford launch event on Friday 10 February. It was an opportunity for our directors to celebrate their efforts and to showcase the space to potential new members. The evening began with a formal invite-only event which gave local businesses, council staff and family members the chance to see the space for the first time. Food was supplied by the Sweet Centre, while Shipley’s Triangle brought their pop-up bar with a selection of locally-sourced craft beers. The Telegraph & Argus were in the building to report on the launch As the evening moved into nighttime the event took on more of a party vibe, with DJ’s - including Assembly’s very own Haigh Simpson and David Craig - providing entertainment into the early hours. Invited guests included a number of local freelancers who were given the opportunity to meet existing members and sample the friendly atmosphere. It was also a special night for birthday boy and Assembly director Martyn Johnston, who was presented with a special stand pie and a signed high-vis jacket, in recognition of his exemplary attitude towards health and safety.

In the weeks following the event Assembly have received dozens of enquiries and welcomed several new members. Not only was the event a successful launch but it has also demonstrated the potential the venue has as an events space, with plans for more Assembly parties a real possibility later in the year...watch this space.

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Meet Our Members Quick Fire Questions Favourite Film: Usual Suspects Favourite Album: The Bends - Radiohead Favourite Food: Sushi Childhood Hero: Collin McRae Most treasured possession: My Wedding Ring Could not live without: Colour

Meet our members: David Craig Who are you and what do you do?

I am David Craig. I run a design and architecture consultancy focusing on the reuse of existing buildings, mainly in the leisure and business sectors. I’m also a director of Assembly Bradford, a coworking space in Bradford and vice chair of Kirkgate Centre community centre in Shipley.

What are you working on at the moment?

Current projects include two serviced offices for a Yorkshire start up, a ping pong bar in Bradford, a live music venue in Bradford, an extension to a restaurant in Harrogate, a refurbishment for a cafe operator at Redbrick in Batley, and also working on a number of new projects that I can’t speak about yet.

Which of your projects are you most proud of?

I always love returning to thriving venues and seeing happy customers and clients. Favourites include The Record Café in Bradford and La Feria in Harrogate.

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Describe your dream project?

Something playful and creative, where I feel like I am part of a team and my skills are valued. There’s a project in the pipeline in itching to tell people about, but I can’t tell you yet!

What is the best thing about being based in Assembly Bradford?

The community, having access to the equivalent of a full service design agency in the same room, and swing the satisfaction of my coworkers when they win a new project.

Where do you want to be in 5 years?

Doing what I do now, but even better, and perhaps with an apprentice.

Name a guilty pleasure...

I’m a bit of a petrol head, so I’d say my un-environmentally car is my guilty pleasure.

8 Reasons to Work in a Coworking Space 1 Less Isolation

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Working from a Coworking space releases you from the isolation you may have from been sat in a home office.

By renting a desk in a shared space, you save on all the bills and costs that would occur from having your own office.

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In a workspace full of other creatives it’s easy to form parnerships, work with others and be involved in new projects. We have various freelancers and businesses at Assembly Bradford who are already taking advantage of the other skills they have access to around the,m.

With various people working in and out of a coworking space it’s easy to build your professional network.

3 Inspiration Watching others work on projects and been situated around other freelancers can be a great source of inspiration. At Assembly Bradford our design library also has a whole load of material to inspire all.

4 Shared Resources

7 Work/Life Balance Been situated in a studio full of people it’s easy to make friends and achieve a healthy work/life balance.

8 A Place to Meet Clients Been able to bring clients into a workplace full of people and a designated meeting room looks alot more professional then meeting them in a coffee shop or a home office.

Having a design library and print resource available for all allows you to use fascilities you may not have had access to.

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New Members of Assembly Bradford

Matt McMillan

Claire Gibbonz

Jack Thorp

Matt is a multidisciplinary thinker and doer with over 14 years’ industry experience, currently working on digital, branding, and motion graphic projects.

Claire is a freelance Digital, Marketing, Communications, HE and Content Consultant. She has a passion for all things web and digital and firmly believes that the user comes first. Claire mainly works with the UK Higher Education sector following many years working at a Yorkshire University, and spends her spare time utilising her digital and communications skills in a voluntary capacity with Saltaire Festival and Leeds Music Trust. As an experienced manager and leader, Claire enjoys working with teams to get the best out of everyone.

Jack Thorp is a junior software engineer and start up co-operative enthusiast. He graduated with a first class masters in computing from Imperial College London in 2016. Since then he has continued to work on establishing Fairmondo UK - a cooperatively owned online marketplace - of which he is a director.

mattmcmillan.co.uk

Working with some of the countries’ leading brand and digital agencies he’s worked with big brands and small start ups, worked closely with clients and led design teams, producing great work with great people, and winning some awards along the way.

For the last four years Matt has been successfully self employed. He continues to collaborate with other like minded agencies, services his own client base directly and also works on self-initiated projects.

Matt believes that collaboration, common sense, hard work and a sense of humour result in great work that inspires and informs.

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@planetclaire

Fairmondo

His background in engineering and cooperative forms of organisation has led to a deep appreciation for lean and agile approaches to problem solving. He is interested in stories and forms of selforganisation such as open space technology.

Jack is a member of the Young Co-operators Network and works with The World Transformed festival to put on culturally engaging political events.

New Books at Assembly

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Northern Social

Hardcover: 109 pages Publisher: Veen / Reflex; 01 edition (1 Jan. 2001) Language: Dutch ISBN-10: 9063221576

Northern Social is an exciting new games-room style bar situated on Bradford’s High Street of the Year Nominee North Parade. The project started with a brand naming session and after brainstorming ideas and conducting research into the concept of the bar, it was felt that Northern Social had the most connections to what the bar represented. Two easily-remembered words that represent the social aspect of the bar and it’s location at the north of Bradford City Centre, in the North of England.

Three brand concepts were put forward, with the final concept combining all the aspects of the initial brand vision. I introduced angled shapes working together to give the visual identity an aspect of motion and created a stacked variation of the logo.

Making Design: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collections Paperback: 780 pages Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers; 01 edition (23 Feb. 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 0910503745

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Day and monthly desk rental, design library, print shop.

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