Practical short courses in contemporary leather, handbags and fashion accessories design, taught at her Central London studio by Katherine Pogson.
Crafting Excellence at Fortnum & Mason
Katherine’s work will be on display in Crafting Excellence, an Exhibition of Craft at Fortnum & Mason in association with QEST. 6 February to 29 July 2012 www.fortnumandmason.com
A few last-minute places on Spring courses
A couple of places still available on Leather fashion accessories weekend March 24 & 25 & How to make a handbag weekend 21 & 22 April
How to Make a Handbag evenings
This course began on 2 February – it will be back after Easter! Katherine Pogson’s original and famous How to make a handbag course gives you the chance to explore the process of creating a handbag to your own design, from conceiving the original idea, through to making up the finished article.
Leather Fashion Accessories weekend
Learn to make high-quality leather goods including belts, cuffs, purses and more in record time, in this enjoyable hands-on class.
How to make a handbag weekend
Design and construct your own handbag from scratch in this fast-paced workshop – an intensive two day version of the famous How to make a handbag evening course.
Summer School 4-7 August
Date for the 2012 Summer School will be published in February. Here is a taster of last year’s course, to give you an idea of its content: Book the time off work now! This summer, Designer Courses offers four full days to explore innovative pattern design and development for fashion accessories and handbags, together with...
Cockpit Arts Christmas Open Studios 2011
In the heart of Central London, but tucked away from the throngs, Cockpit Arts is “Stunning – a rabbit warren of creativity” (Jon Snow) housing 165 talented designer-makers over two sites. Come and snap up high quality hand- made gifts including fashion accessories, jewellery, ceramics and more, plus workshops for kids, a cafe bar and...
Pattern Cutting
A fun and fast-paced exploration of rapid pattern-making and idea generation for accessories. Learn how to turn a flat sketch into 3-dimensions, solve construction problems and master the basics of accurate pattern-making for bags, purses, wallets, belts, corsages, leather jewellery and more – the first step towards realising your collection.
Origin-the contemporary craft fair 2011
Katherine Pogson, the founder of Designer Courses, will be exhibiting at Origin, the contemporary craft fair for the first time this September. New work by Katherine displays a departure into decoration, and features embroidered bags and purses in vibrant coloured soft leathers and new ranges of delicately gilded and moulded leather jewellery, alongside the signature...
Katherine Pogson wins QEST scholarship 2011
Katherine Pogson, tutor and founder of Designer Courses, was delighted to become a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust scholar earlier this year, and collected her award at a luncheon hled by the Royal Warrant Holder’s Association at the Hilton Hotel in June. Katherine is using her scholarship to attend a series of courses in computer aided...
New Designer Courses website
The new-look Designer Courses website goes live today, 25 July 2011. We hope you find it fresh, easy to use and full of information. We’d love to hear what you think about it it, so if you have any suggestions or comments please do drop us a line.
