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Top Drawer: Design Trade Show

Competition Description

Top Drawer is the UK’s leading design-led trade show for gift and interior products, with over 30 years of experience. It’s a great place to display your products, boost your brand, and generate leads. You can sell your work and connect with major and independent retailers from the UK and worldwide.

UAL’s Careers and Employability team, along with Clarion Events, offers UAL students and graduates a discount to showcase their work at Top Drawer in a UAL-branded area.  The selected exhibitors will get training and support to prepare for the event.

Top Drawer is carefully curated for buyers and includes Top Drawer On Demand, a digital platform connecting brands with buyers.

Products can include:

  • gifts
  • interior accessories
  • soft furnishings
  • lighting
  • glass, ceramics, jewellery
  • craft
  • fashion accessories
  • stationery
  • greetings cards
  • frames and prints.

Winner's Prize

Costs

The cost to participate in this opportunity if selected:

  • £65 (UAL students)
  • £160 (UAL graduates / alumni)

Costs cover:

  • space to exhibit your work
  • stand design and build
  • individual promotional material
  • promotion and marketing
  • training events and support
  • public liability insurance.