On BBC2 Britain's Next Best thing series shows buying teams from Liberty, Boots and Habitat asking memebers of the public- designers, entrepreneurs to supply them with the next best product. Over the weeks it has taken the chosen designers through the process of going from the prototype or intial product to it being distributed throughout numbers of stores.
As I am working out the costs/finanace for my group E&E i found the last episode extra helpful as Theo Paphitis (normally seen on dragons den) was explaining how to finance a product- explaining you have to work out manufacturing costs, wholesale costa and retail costs etc.
What really suprised me was how much the actual designers got out of this financially- yes they get the status of their work being sold in prestigious stores but some designers such as Richard Weston, selling his agate print scarves to Liberty being sold for up to £220 but getting peanuts- Liberty was getting the main profit. ( Which they weren't so expensive as i want one, when he was selling them himself they were only £40 a fraction of what they are now!)
But what also interested me that Richard Weston is actually a well respected architect and the scanning of agates and then having the image printed on to silk was really just a hobby. Shows that you can learn and get creativity from other disciplines not just your own.
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