Coming soon to a venue near you: Boston’s latest and greatest marketplace for locally grown, independent designers. Well, not exactly Boston, Cambridge really, but it’s close.
The Design Hive is the brainchild of Val Fox, founder of Red Valise, a web site design, improvement, and marketing company. The goal of this new weekly event is to establish a showcase for Boston area’s emerging designers, exhibiting their goods all together under one roof in a friendly, community-driven environment. The Design Hive will be a rotating collective retail experience featuring different designers every week, many exhibitors offering samples and one-of-a-kind, handmade items including clothing (modern and vintage), handbags and accessories, jewelry, housewares, ceramics, prints, and paper goods. Shopping local is a great antidote to mass-produced, mass-consumed goods, it keeps independent artists and businesses alive, and minimizes everyone’s carbon footprints.
There are currently more than 80 designers registered for The Design Hive including area favorites Phetnikone Nokham, Stonehouse Studio, and JHill Design. Also scheduled for an appearance on the first three market dates, DJ Hyssop from Dead Language Studio will be spinning a collage of world music and tracks from his new album, Modern Medicine.
The Design Hive is within easy walking distance of both Harvard and Porter Squares in Cambridge and can be found every Saturday from 10am - 5pm starting Nov 1st at the Maria Baldwin School (formerly the Agassiz School), 28 Sacramento St. (off Mass Ave. @ corner of Oxford St.) Cambridge, MA 02138.
Comments
GREAT IDEA!
There are a lot of avenues for vintage advertising these day. Whether you're buying or selling, a good marketplace is a great way to showcase vintage items. I have looked online and used a few of the websites out there to sell items that I have collected over the years. Most are nice, well invented sites, yet I found a new site ( Lil Marketplace ) that is just starting out.
This site is very eye-pleasing and easy to use--and could use a lot more shoppes. But, overall a great place that is just starting out.
I opened a FREE shoppe and posted a few items with ease, and then browsed the site....only to buy something, of course! Checkout was a snap! There are many items that you can sell on this site: antiques, jewelry, art, vintage, indie, eco-friendly, handmade, gourmet foods, gifts, organic, retro, collectibles, books, music and more!
Check it out, here's the link: http://www.lilmarketplace.com
I really like this site and will continue to use it! Hope others will check it out as well.
Got something to say?
Examiner.com is looking for writers, photographers, and videographers to join the fastest growing group of local insiders. If you are interested in growing your online rep apply to be an Examiner today!