Wowee! 2020 has been a year of changes and adaptability and most of all kindness. We have been completely PRIVILEGED to work alongside some fantastic clients this year, each one striving to bring some good to the world, who have been absolute gems to work with as we all navigate trying times.
We started the year by producing a guide to crowdfunding for Newspaper Club and interviewing some of their clients about how they incorporated their newspapers into the rewards they were providing through their Kickstarters.
We’ve been working with the amazing team at Kickstarter since April to promote the platform in the UK, securing them features in National and niche press publications in the UK. At the same time, we began work with the brilliant Apps for Good to support the launch of their virtual awards. We are so excited to be working with both of these teams now and into 2021 helping on all things comms and marketing!
We’re also working on an exciting new Make Works project with Helen Voce and the team at Fab Lab Barcelona - but more details to come on that in the new year.
Alongside these larger more established clients we’ve been working closely with Paper Houses Design and Wild & Kind to support them as they grow their ethical and fair businesses.
We’ve launched three very different crowdfunding campaigns this year; Atypical - beauty products specially designed for your skin, Eyra - utensils for design-conscious older people and Irregular Sleep Pattern - bright bold ethically made gender-neutral pyjamas and bedding. Each creator showed huge resilience in pushing through to get their campaigns launched.
During the first lockdown, we launched two new initiatives Creatives at Home to celebrate the adaptability of creative people and our Donate-What-You-Can advisory service to support anyone who was launching a product or campaign during the lockdown. We also hosted our first-ever online Glasgow Print Fair, we asked a selection of artists across Europe to create new prints based on the theme of nature and sold them throughout July.
Get in touch if you’re planning on launching something exciting in 2021 - we’re excited to hear what you are up to.