Designs in Mind is a working studio, tucked away in Shropshire, where adults living with mental health challenges work together on ambitious, experimental art and design projects. Our studio is a hive of activity, there are close to 100 of us and we believe that design has the power to positively affect how we feel, not only in how it looks but also through the experience of making.
Services
As visual storytellers, we offer a bespoke service to transform indoor or outdoor spaces. We are able to interpret briefs through a wide variety of mediums, commissions are at the core of our work here at Designs in Mind. The benefit of a studio full of creative minds teamed with the specialist skills of individuals.
If you feel like you might attempt suicide, or may have seriously harmed yourself, you need urgent medical help. Shropshire Mental Health Services have set up a 24/7 urgent NHS mental health service providing telephone support, advice and triage. The Green Oak Foundation- currently offering telephone/ zoom/skype counselling and wellbeing services.
Designs in Mind are looking for a part time (3 days a week Tuesday to Thursday) Product Lead to cover maternity leave. The applicant will have experience in a range of making and design skills that will contribute to commissions, projects, and product development. They will facilitate existing product development focus groups, ensuring timescales and deadlines are managed for external retail commissions.
Look up, we are upstairs next door to our shop JOLT- 17a Cross Street, Oswestry, SY11 2NF. Between 10.00am and 4.00pm this road is pedestrianised. Walk down the alleyway to the side of JOLT and our door is on the right, there is a buzzer for Designs in Mind. When you enter the building, please go up the stairs and the studio is in front of you.
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Sarah Joy Holden
Dec 16, 2021
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P. Milner
Oct 22, 2016
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Rainbow Girl
Jul 24, 2016
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Gail Lee
Jun 24, 2016
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Designs in Mind (DiM) is a group of artists that have been referred by their GP, Mental Health Service. Personally, it has been an exciting journey as I was referred to DiM following my nervous breakdown in 2011. I love what we do at DiM, the various mediums of art that we use, such as ceramics, glass, papercutting, screen printing, lino printing, weaving, string work, dry and wet needle felting, silk work etc. The list seems endless and it's all exciting to be part of it. I am now a volunteer 2 days a week at DiM and feel honoured and privileged that I am in this new role of "standing beside"
