The deadline to apply to this opportunity is 10am Monday 30 March 2026.
Have you always wanted to design a product but just don’t know where to begin? Are you starting to think about ways to commercialise your designs? Or are you just curious about what it takes to get an idea to a finished product? If you’ve answered yes, this is the brief for you!
not just a shop is excited to announce our homeware product live brief. This is an opportunity for UAL students and graduates of up to 3 years who have faced barriers preventing them from creating commercial homeware products for retail. We want to work with makers with no product experience and guide them through the process of initial ideas to finished item. not just a shop will cover all production costs, provide a small bursary for participation and will be running sessions covering relevant topics to support and build confidence. We will be working with an industry specialist. Soon to be announced.
This brief will be run by Zoë Tynan-Campbell in collaboration with not just a shop, and will be based on and coincide with the Atterbury Flat project. Also led by Zoë based in Chelsea College of Arts.
The Atterbury flat is a 1920’s mansion block flat being reimagined as a living / live-in Archive space, showcasing the talent of past and present UAL students. Your final product will become part of the furnishings, as well as being sold in not just a shop in store and online.
This project will be 6 sessions, every Wednesday 5–7pm starting from 29 April 2026.
The sessions will run as below:
This project is designed to support makers with no production experience and who would not otherwise be able to create homeware products outside of the project. Not just a shop understands that there are many challenges and barriers that prevent makers from being able to explore commercial products, this is why we want to create a safe space for experimentation and development with no financial risk to the participants.
We have up to 10 spaces for people to take part in the live brief. In order for selection to be as inclusive and unbiased as possible, rather than creating restrictive criteria for you to meet, we will be allocating places at random. Providing you meet the eligibility above you will be entered into a lottery system. Please note, you will not be asked to disclose or discuss your barriers with us.
If there are any barriers to your participation in this event or you have access requirements you wish to discuss, please contact notjustashop@arts.ac.uk in advance, and we'll be happy to talk with you.
By applying and taking part you are agreeing to the following:
The University of the Arts London (UAL) collects the personal data you provide in this form to enter you into the HOME live brief project and for your work to be sold in not just a shop. If selected, your data will be published on our website and other social media platforms as the maker of the product. Processing of your personal data is necessary under GDPR basis Art.6(1)(b) ‘necessary for the performance of a contract’.
If you choose to provide information about your health to provide reasonable adjustments and other support for those declaring a disability, we process this under GDPR Art.9(2)b ‘necessary for carrying out obligations in the field of social protection law’
If you are not an existing client, and as part of your application you may have shared information about your business. This data will be shared within our annual HEBCI submission, after which we will delete your data.
Successful applicants' personal data will be retained for the duration of the project and as long as you remain a client of ‘not just a shop’ plus 6 years from when you cease to be our client before being deleted.
For other information about UAL and your rights over personal data, go to arts.ac.uk/privacy-information.
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