{"id":723,"date":"2015-12-06T11:33:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T11:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/?p=723"},"modified":"2017-07-16T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T06:56:00","slug":"spark-your-inventiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Spark your inventiveness!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 507px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/182606461?et=Vp3o_5_5TnBdvbUss6Zvsw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=Kbd-KPfYiQaQsEGABDC4vGbsqsD-M3itoLxeAuzo1EI=\" width=\"507\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0 0 0 10px; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/182606461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View image<\/a> | <a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>The next deadline for the Design Council <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designcouncil.org.uk\/what-we-do\/design-council-spark?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Spark<\/em> <\/a>programme is approaching on December 14th.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designcouncil.org.uk\/what-we-do\/design-council-spark?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Council Spark<\/a> is a product innovation fund and programme designed to fast-track products to market. Spark is looking for brilliant ideas at prototype stage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: The Design Council, December 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The short film below shows <a href=\"http:\/\/houseofhemingway.co.uk\/hemingway-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">designer Wayne Hemingway<\/a>, talking about the process of design and invention, and how the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designcouncil.org.uk\/what-we-do\/design-council-spark?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Council Spark Award<\/a><\/em> fosters the creation of new products and enterprise to create and market your ideas.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/147578776\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wayne Hemingway says<em> &#8216;..ideas are free, now is the chance to make those ideas a reality&#8230;&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designcouncil.org.uk\/news-opinion\/design-council-spark-faqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can find out more about the Spark initiative from The Design Council here<\/a>. The on-line access to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designcouncil.org.uk\/apply-design-council-spark-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the application process can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your concept must be to create a physical product and you need to be UK based to qualify for entry. Up to 150,000 Pounds prize money is to be shared by the winning entries, as well as a period of development and design support to realise your dream.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with your entry!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-822\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SocEntEastMIdslogoButton.jpeg?resize=231%2C278\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com The next deadline for the Design Council Spark programme is approaching on December 14th. &#8216;Design Council Spark is a product innovation fund and programme designed to fast-track products to market. Spark is looking for brilliant ideas at prototype stage. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: The Design Council, December 2015 The short film below shows &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/?p=723\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spark your inventiveness!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,225,192,288,224],"tags":[238,242,7,243,239,240,244,212,241],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enterprise-start-ups","category-innovation","category-news","category-socenteastmids","category-tech","tag-design","tag-invention","tag-news","tag-prduct-development","tag-product-creation","tag-spark","tag-the-design-council","tag-the-key-fund","tag-wayne-hemingway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}