Design Up Your Street Issue #2

We're up for another 48 Hour Challenge... Are you?

Design Up Your Street & the 48 hour Challenge is back by popular demand!
We're now scouting for anyone with an interest, experience, knowledge in design to contribute to the next issue #2. If you want to join this new dynamic design community and would like to be a contributor, a design writer, have something thought-provoking to say about design, a photographer or good with a camera then contact attic 2 by 19 Nov. In your own words you could inform and inspire the wider community from the general public to education, from private to public sectors. We're looking for design stories & pics, design news, design-led events, companies or organisations interested in funding a page to promote your own design stories in an issue and essentially anyone up for the 48 Hour Challenge. We also want you, the consumers and users of design to take part in our A Question Of Design feature.

Issue #2
We're still Talking Design in Wales, Design beyond Wales, Design in your Community, Design Up Your Street. We're sticking with the same inclusive 'design is for everyone', the community-spirit, the same fast, fun and focused approach. We're keeping features such as A Question of Design, Think Ark, Design Thinking and Design events calendar so we need to know what design stuff is happening and when.

New Stuff
Issue Theme - It'll be top secret until 7 days before the challenge! To keep it fresh, intriguing and in the spirit of the challenge this issue and future issues will be given a slightly ambiguous theme to provoke spontaneity and lively responses in design articles and features we publish. And to add to the challenge we will let you writers and contributors know what the theme 7 days before the publication production challenge starts.

Design Up OUR Street - yes, we need your street! We will be looking for interesting design stories up your street anywhere in the world from Llandeilo to Leeds, Mumbles to Melbourne, Bangor to Berlin. We may want to feature 6 neighbours with their favourite design objects or we may want to feature urban design up your street or cool design destinations or design events that may be happening up your street. We'd like this to be a regular feature so if there's design up your street then let us know. Help put your street on the design map.

Design Contributors
This is our Tribe of design writers and reporters who'll be writing about all sorts of design stuff. The exciting but scary thing about each Tribe of contributors selected for each issue is we won't have a clue what features or design topics they'll be sending us until just before our Edititorial deadline and that'll be up to the wire on the start of the 48 Hour Challenge. And how contributors interpret the Issue Theme is anyone's guess - it'll be their spin on design!

Community Partners & Issue Partners
There's no escaping. Design Up Your Street costs money to produce. But as much as we'd love to be in a position to fund it all ourselves, we're not. One thing we wanted to do from the start was produce an accessible free design publication for anyone to pick up, read and keep. We still believe this is the absolute right approach and this is where our partners come in to help the costs. We've 2 created Partner packages - Community Partner & Issue Partner. If you, your business or organisation would like a design voice and it's your voice the Design Up Your Street could be right up your street.

More
Design Up Your Street is evolving - that's the nature of the beast so keep an eye out for updates and more NEw Stuff we're planning on introducing into Issue #2.
For more info on Design Up Your Street, issue #2, being a contributor or a partner please call Lynsey or Ange on +44 (0) 29 2049 0498 or email info@attic2.co.uk