(photo source: V & A museum website)
It’s officially school holidays and kids across the country will be heading off for organised summer fun. Well tonight and tomorrow, the V&A are hosting their very own summer camp, for all you grown up kids to get in on the action.
Their inaugural summer camp offers the perfect chance to get your creative juices flowing; as you explore a host of different design processes with leading designers, artists and makers.
So get your pens and pencils at the ready, and visit the V&A website for full details of what’s going on
Here at Tedquarters, we’ve been trying our best to make being green, second nature. Well our efforts haven’t gone unnoticed; last week saw Ted Baker awarded a platinum award at the annual Green500 awards.
By enlisting of some of London’s largest and most prestigious organisations, Green500 aim to reduce the capital’s CO2 emissions and they’re mighty impressed with Ted.
In the past year our Green Team has filled our kitchen with fairtrade bananas, installed ways to monitor energy consumption in store, made significant steps towards waste reduction and launched our cycle to work scheme – to name just a few.
In fact, we just had a swap shop last week. Held at our local, Ted’s team were invited to swap any unwanted books, CDs and DVDs for somebody else’s. One man’s rubbish is another man’s treasure after all.
Forget Jonathan Ross, how about a Friday night with Victoria and Albert – on the last Friday of every month the V&A is open late until 10pm.
Tonight the V&A have teamed up with Hide & Seek to bring you ‘Playgrounds’ with plenty of social games and playful experiences to keep you entertained all night, it’s all about exploring ‘the collision of art, theatre and game design’. Whilst you’re ‘exploring’, hopefully you’ll have some of fun too.
To celebrate St Patrick’s Day this year we’re giving you the chance to win a Ted Baker voucher – all you need is a bit of Irish luck, and preferably be near one of the participating stores!
Just pop into Ted’s Victoria Square store or House of Fraser concession in Belfast, fill in a ContacTED card, and you’re in with a chance to win a £100 voucher. Whereas enter in our Dublin store, Arnotts of Dublin, House of Fraser Dundrum or Kildare village outlet, and you could get your hands on a €150 voucher.
Hurry, today’s the last day to enter the draw so good luck.
Fed up of freezing temperatures? In desperate search of summer? Well rebel against the British weather with Café du Pique-Nique.
From tomorrow, The Future Gallery will be transformed into an idyllic indoor picnic with a hamper full of treats for the week; perfect if you’re popping in on your lunch or intending to soak up as much sun as you can.
So kick back on the grass, get some proper picnic grub and bask in beautiful ‘sunshine’ – best of all, there’s no chance of rain, and not a wasp in sight
We all know you can’t judge a book by its cover, and the London Word Festival is no exception. Over the next few weeks wordsmiths, storytellers, musicians, comedians and artists will come together to celebrate their love of language.
This Sunday sees the opening of The Chip Shop, a temporary screen printing workshop, conceived and manned by the Henningham Family [Read more…]
As a special thank you for shopping with us at http://www.tedbaker.com/, for a limited time we’re offering free returns on all UK orders.
So you can try on your purchases (a fashion show in your living room is optional) and if they’re not quite right, send them back to us at no cost – it couldn’t be simpler.
Either via the Royal Mail – you go to the post office with it – or DHL – they’ll come and pick it up; you can find all the information you need, here.
So now there really is no excuse, with free delivery to UK mainland on orders over £100 and free returns on all orders, not to look your best this season.
Tired of the same old story? Well rediscover the joys of storytelling with YARNFest.
Kicking off tomorrow, this 5 day festival is dedicated to challenging our preconceptions of storytelling, whether in film, music, theatre or literature.
The aptly named, The Book Club and The Queen of Hoxton in East [Read more…]
Everyone loves Shrove Tuesday – a day where it’s imperative to eat as many pancakes as you possibly can -totally guilt free.
Celebrate this year with the annual sponsored Pancake Day relay race, in aid of London Air Ambulance.
If you fancy free pancakes and seeing [Read more…]
This weekend sees the return of the Kinetica art fair. Fusing art and science, the fair showcases cutting edge kinetic, electronic, robotic, light, sound and time based art.
With contributions from over 25 galleries and 150 artists, the Kinetica art fair promises an eclectic taste of ground-breaking, technology led, contemporary art.
Running all weekend at P3 on Marylebone road; highlights include a giant orchestral milk float, a family of holographic light beings, robots drawing humans and many other installations and immersive experiences.
If you’re someone that thinks modern art is a load of rubbish – then you’re going to love Art Bin.
Over the next six weeks, hundreds of paintings and sculptures by artists both famous and unknown will be ceremoniously dumped into a 600m3, see-through [Read more…]
