Personal and Professional Practice: OUGD502 - Studio Brief 01 - NEST Issue 10 Launch and Exhibition Planning

Organising official launch events for new issues of NEST magazine is also an important role as Editorial Officer.

The first step in organising the launch for issue 10 was to locate an appropriate venue. There were many possible locations around Leeds that could have been used to host the launch, including Village Bookshop, Outlaws Yacht Club and Studio 24. However the most appropriate option was to use the exhibition space at Colours May Vary, as the space would be large enough to accomodate a good number of people and would be a familiar location to both new and existing students from LCA.

I contacted Becky at Colours May Vary and negotiated to use the space for the launch night and to hold the space for a week after in order to be able to display a small exhibition of work that had not been included in the printed magazine. The price agreed for this was £210, which was within my budget for the launch.

After visiting Colours May Vary I selected a number of works that could be hung in the space, including photography prints and a projector to display a moving image submissions.