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The Old Truman Brewery will be a hive of creative activity during Free Range and an ever more exciting place to be. In addition to the Free Range exhibitions it has its own micro-community sprawled across its 11 acre site complete with bars, clubs, restaurants, shops and cafes. Other exciting Summer events to look forward to including the Art Car Boot Fair, theatre performances, lots of fashion sample sales and our ever popular Sunday Upmarket.

http://www.trumanbrewery.com

Metro is proud to be supporting Free Range and wishes all Free Rangers 07 a successful summer show. Watch out for details of our ‘Re-Create’ recycling competition launched alongside the show that could give you the opportunity to win some amazing prizes and have your work showcased in front of Metro’s 2 million daily readers and on metro.co.uk. As the UK’s 4th largest paper and an essential read for urbanites in 16 major cities across the UK we are committed to encouraging our readers to recycle or re-use their copy of Metro. We also print Metro on predominantly recycled paper, off-set carbon emissions associated with delivering Metro and support green charity Trees for Cities along with a variety of other environmental initiatives.

http://www.metro.co.uk

At London Graphic Centre we’re proud to hold a place in the creative heart of London and supporting Free Range enables us to do just that. Our purpose is to be the supplier of choice for all creative people. A diverse bunch they share one attribute - a desire to make their own creative mark and one thing they’ve taught us is the quality of materials used influences the quality of their work and we want to inspire the best. That’s why we offer the most comprehensive range of art and graphic materials available, with over 25,000 different products, sourced from leading suppliers throughout the world. We provide convenience, accessibility, excellent value and great service. Our staff share similar values to our customers too: they’re passionate, creative people with the knowledge and skills to deliver the highest standards of customer care. Wherever you are, you can access London Graphic Centre. Our flagship store is in Covent Garden, 16-18 Shelton Street, WC2H 9JL

http://www.londongraphics.co.uk

GET NOTICED ON RISE. Dazed & Confused, the world’s leading style and fashion magazine is proud to partner this year’s Free Range. To support the wealth of young, fresh talent around the world, Dazed has created an online platform to profile you and your work. Submit your portfolio to any of 4 categories: fashion, music, photography and illustration and each week, Dazed's creative team will profile the best new talent online at www.dazeddigital.com/rise/. You can also sign up to our weekly newsletter for the latest news on exclusive sessions, interviews and competitions.

http://www.dazeddigital.com/rise/

Grafik is an independently-published monthly magazine about graphic design from around the world. It showcases the best new work each month by the most innovative studios, champions exciting new talent and reviews the essential books, exhibitions and events. Each issue explores a different Special Report theme, including fashion, photography, process, branding, art, graphic design heroes and sound and vision. There is also a special section on typography, which features the latest typographic projects and has designers writing about the typefaces and letterforms that inspire them. There’s also a chance each month to win Grafik’s rather covetable Objekt of Desire. Grafik also organises exhibitions and events. In 2007 look out for Grafik’s touring exhibition Felt-Tip and design writing competition Future Perfect.

http://www.grafikmagazine.co.uk

Sign up today for 2-weeks free online access to www.bjp-online.com/trial. Benefit from the experience of leading experts. The BJP has everything a photographer could want. Our news-driven features coupled with benchmark reviews keep you at the front of photography coverage. What's more, you'll have full online access to the latest jobs, equipment for sale, forum, plus archive of previous issues. Why not judge for yourself and sign up for a FREE 2-week trial with no obligation. Demand for our trial is high and numbers are limited.

http://www.bjp-online.com/trial

RA MAGAZINE are pleased to partner Free Range in 2007, supporting new, emerging talent in the art world. The Royal Academy's annual Summer Exhibition from 11 June - 19 August 2007 is the world's largest open submission contemporary art exhibition, with a tradition of showcasing work of all styles and media by unknown and emerging artists, alongside that of more established names. Now in its 239th year, the Summer Exhibition includes well over 1200 works, encompassing paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints and architectural models.

http;//www.royalacademy.org.uk

The Saatchi Gallery has launched STUART, a new resource on the Saatchi Gallery website where art students can have their own page to display their work. The aim is to provide a forum for showcasing student art and making connections with other students, dealers, curators and collectors all over the world. This is a free service, with no costs involved: www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart. The site receives over 12 million hits a day. Students can upload an unlimited amount of artwork, interact with other students around the world via an interactive chat facility and messages, include a personal profile and choose privacy settings. Students are free to register here:www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart/register. Once registered please link your free range profile to the STUART site and vice versa so that visitors can see more about you, your artwork and shows you are involved in.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart

CSD is the world's largest chartered body of professional designers and is unique in representing designers in all disciplines. Membership is only awarded to qualified designers who must also prove their professional capability during an admission assessment. With 3000+ members in 34 countries around the world, CSD offers a truly diverse and inclusive base of professional designers, each committed to operating to the highest professional standards in whichever field or country they practice. Throughout Free range 2007, CSD will be holding the following workshops: Copyright, design protection and licensing of designs and Trademarks and the importance of branding. CSD will also be running an Assessment Programme and a Portfolio Gym during Free Range 2007. Both are available FREE to Free Range exhibitors BUT they must be pre-booked by emailing: info@csd.org.uk.

http://www.csd.org.uk

During the course of New Shoots, the AoP’s season of promoting new and emerging talent, the AoP Gallery will play host to a plethora of themed career talks, workshops and trade fairs. The themed career talks will be unmissable for anyone wanting to break into the photographic industry. You will gain invaluable advice, tips and general know how from our top photographers and assistants all completely free. Wednesdays 3pm-5pm on the following dates: 6th June How to be an Assistant, 13th June How to Make the Transition from Assistant to Photographer, 20th June How to be an Advertising Photographer, 27th June How to be an Editorial Photographer, 4th July How Shoot on Location. www.the-aop.org

http://www.aop-newshoots.com