John Lewis & Partners are excited to announce the launch of Room for Living, providing a fascinating insight into how Britain lives today.  Room for Living is an interactive installation showcasing five different Living Room spaces, situated in the retailers’ Oxford Street shop.

Each room has been developed as a result of bespoke research commissioned by John Lewis, as well as customers shopping habits that show how the nation is living. John Lewis has also teamed up with experts to add their own unique touch to each living room and show how they would live in the space. Each expert will be hosting an exciting series of events and workshops that kicked off on Monday 18th March 2019.

Room For Flexibility: Editor of the Happy News, Emily Coxhead. The weekend of 17th March 2019
Emily Coxhead ran a thriving business from her tiny rainbow-filled home office in north west England. Creator of The Happy News, she was perfectly placed to share tips and advice on how to successfully work from home.

Designer, illustrator and happy-thing maker, Emily graduated from the Manchester School of Art in 2015 and quickly decided she wanted to spread some happiness. She writes and illustrates The Happy News, an inspiring newspaper jam-packed with positive and uplifting stories from around the world. She also creates stationery, gifts and greeting cards.

Emily hosted two classes on 22nd March. For her first event, Emily shared her philosophy on wellbeing, and ran a workshop where you’ll find out what a “happy jar” is before making your own. For her second event, attendees enjoyed a glass of fizz with Emily and heard her share how she started her newspaper, and  how making small changes to your day can have a positive impact.

Room For Family: The Geffrye Museum of the Home. The week of 25th March 2019
Uniquely placed to share their knowledge of the history and evolution of the living room, the Geffrye Museum of the Home organised collections, exhibitions and events centred around one question: what does home mean to you?

The Geffrye Museum of the Home is based in 18th century almshouse buildings and surrounded by tranquil gardens in vibrant Hoxton, East London. As the Museum of the Home, it’s the go-to place for inspiration and debate on the universal subject of home. The Geffrye is currently closed as it undergoes a major transformation and is due to reopen in spring 2020.

The Geffrye Museum of the Home will be hosting events on 28th & 29th March. Customers will meet the Geffrye Museum of the Home team who will bring the family room to life with personal stories, photographs and historical facts, highlighting how this is not just a physical space, but a mixture of evocative memories, relationships and experiences. Brave the ‘scratch ‘n sniff’ station to unearth the mysterious and sometimes surprising scents of spring-cleaning through time.

Room For Entertaining: TV presenter, AJ Odudu. The week of 31st March 2019
AJ is a seasoned entertainer. Well known as a TV presenter and DJ, she knows how to create the perfect ambience for a good night in and will be sharing her top tips on how to entertain at home.

AJ Odudu is currently presenting The Voice UK and The Voice Kids UK as their new digital host for ITV.  On 4th April, join AJ to find out why staying in is the new going out. Listen to her perfect party playlist and enjoy rum cocktails. On 5th April, you can join AJ for a glass of fizz while she answers your questions about her varied career. Learn all about her experience across presenting, DJing and fitness.

Room For Expression: Artist, Morag Myerscough. The week of 14th April 2019
Contemporary artist Morag’s mantra is ‘make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come’. Creating work that’s bold and vibrant, Morag is the perfect person to inspire us to express ourselves through design and creativity.

Morag is known around the world for her distinct approach to making large scaffold structures adorned with neon geometric patterns and shapes, often incorporating positive messaging hand painted onto plywood.

Morag will be hosting two events on 18th April. The first will be a talk on belonging. Learn about how important your surroundings are and how to build a sense of belonging in communities. For the second event you’ll be able to join Morag for a creative pattern workshop, where you’ll get to create a colourful pattern and then add it to a larger, collective piece.

Room for Living launched on Monday 18th March at John Lewis Oxford Street. Additionally there will be an evening of events taking place on 28th March in John Lewis shops nationwide. For more information and a full list of activities, please visit: https://www.johnlewis.com/content/the-residence

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notonthehighstreet, the online site dedicated to thoughtful gifts, has launched at London Waterloo the first of two physical pop-ups in the run up to Christmas 2018. notonthehighstreet is working with agency Initials on the design and build of the pop-up spaces.

The curated online marketplace will be showcasing products from over 200 notonthehighstreet partners across the two pop-ups, which will run from 2nd to 22nd November at London’s Waterloo Station and from 3rd to 24th December at Westfield London.

Both three-week pop-ups will provide shoppers with an opportunity to buy from a curated collection of unique and thoughtful gifts from the site’s 2018 Christmas collection. This will include personalised Christmas Eve boxes and baubles, customisable jewellery and a selection of gifts from stocking fillers through to larger, limited edition and one-off, artisanal items.

Each of the two locations will also feature information about the partners behind the gifts, to highlight the skilled craftsmanship of some of the UK’s best small creative businesses who sell through notonthehighstreet. The Westfield pop-up will incorporate opportunities for live personalisation and ticketed experiential workshops so that shoppers hunting down the perfect Christmas gift for a loved-one will be able to co-create something special, with the help of selected notonthehighstreet partners, while they shop.

“Our pop-ups will be an opportunity for our customers to really get to know notonthehighstreet this Christmas,” said Ella d’Amato, Chief Commercial and Marketing Officer at notonthehighstreet.

“We are working with some of our most innovative Partners to develop carefully curated ranges of products for each location which showcase the best of the unique gifts that can be found on our marketplace this festive season. We hope it will help our customers to understand the work of the 5,000 creative small businesses that sell through notonthehighstreet by bringing their stories to life and demonstrating their passion for creativity in a way which it can be hard to appreciate when you’re browsing online.”

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Aliya Ladha, Marketing Executive at TCC Global, shares her experience of this year’s IPM 30 Under 30 programme.

To anyone thinking about applying for the IPM 30 Under 30 programme, I highly recommend it. To say that the programme has been a fantastic experience is an understatement. It has given me the opportunities to stretch myself and offered me learning experiences that will be vital not only in my career but also in the personal decision-making process.

I was totally over the moon when I found out that I was chosen as one of the 30 candidates to participate this year. There were hundreds of applications from candidates with some of the best credentials and from all walks of life. Hence, you can’t help but feel a little lucky even though candidates are picked on merit. Only 30 special unique candidates progressed through to the programme for 2018 making us the 30 Under 30 young future leaders of the promotional marketing world.

The application process: I submitted my application in time for the October 2017 deadline and by mid November I was notified of my successful offer of a place on to the programme. It almost felt like a validation of my future ambitions because the programme recognises you as a young future leader of the promotional marketing world. Your employer could nominate you or you could nominate yourself for the application process. The wait for the results felt long but was well worth the wait once the 30 names were announced online! To celebrate we had a special awards evening where for the first time the 30 Under 30 cohort met, mingled and celebrated our first step into the programme with receiving award certificates which took place in December.

Before joining the programme I attended the webinar where the team answered valuable questions like if moving employer/ cannot make a session etc. What happens if you are unable to make a session and so on? This really got me excited about being part of the programme and showed how much the IPM 30 Under 30 cared for us on such a strong programme.

The IPM 30 under 30 programme has opened myself to so many opportunities and I have met some of the brightest people in the industry. I am sure I will be able to establish professional relationships with most of these people and collaborate in exciting projects in the future. Any person to be on the programme or thinking to be on the programme would learn lifelong skills to put into practice at any time in their careers. So on a cold evening I travelled to central London to attend my first session just to receive an warm welcome by the participants and the IPM hosts. It really makes you feel included from the word go.

The sessions: The programme involved 4 sessions throughout the year led by industry experts, which added real value to every session we attended. These covered: Career and Personal Development; Client Development and Negotiation; Smarter Working and Managing Stress and IP Mythbusters.

The sessions were very informative and gave us the chance to ask the experts about their experiences, challenges and solutions to problems they have faced within the sector. I could not believe that I would have the opportunity to share the same platform with the best and brightest in the industry without IPM 30 and 30. The whole programme is designed to take your imagination, thoughts and capability to the next level.

Networking drinks after each session were another great additional aspect organised by the IPM team after each session. This gave us another opportunity to interact with the industry leading experts. It also allowed our group of peers to mingle and share experiences, journeys and grow our network. In a nutshell, the programme really does instil the belief in you that the sky is the limit.

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The Body Shop have created an Enchanted Forest pop-up in Shoreditch, London. The pop-up is a sensorial journey designed to pamper, inspire and inform. Visitors can indulge themselves with makeovers, massages and treats, and explore The Body Shop’s new Christmas collection.

There will also be the chance to meet The Body Shop’s campaign partner, conservation charity The Woodland Trust, and discover how they are working to Re-Wild the World this Christmas.

Entrance to The Enchanted Forest is free of charge with no ticket needed, plus visitors can also enjoy shopping with 25% off and be treated to a free goodie bag, worth £35, when they spend £25.

The space will also host a number of talks, workshops and classes on everything from skincare and makeup secrets to candlelit yoga and how to ‘Re-Wild Your Home.’

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