Make. Learn. Sell.
Calling all makers.
Want to learn how to sell and promote your design products and handmade gifts, acquire exciting new skills, and start making some extra cash? Of course you do!
Through our annual Makers Market opportunities, we give London Met’s talented designer-makers and craftspeople the opportunity to become real world market traders.
Showcase your creativity.
Whether you’re a graphic, fashion or jewellery design student with an exciting new product, or an aviation management graduate with a hobby for handmade greeting cards…
We welcome and encourage students and recent graduates from all areas across the university to take part in Maker Market.
Learn how to.
Set up your stall
We’ll give you an overview of what makes a homely market stall for selling in-person.
How to sell effectively
Learn about customer interaction and growing your business through social media.
Presenting your wares for sale
Discover how to take professional pictures and present your products to get them market ready.
Pricing your products
Take out the guesswork by diving into pricing your products and setting prices that factor in time.
What can I sell?
For Makers Market we’re looking for students and recent graduates with design products and handmade gifts.
This could be a range of homeware products, unique artwork and prints, handcrafted jewellery pieces, bespoke ceramics, textile and soft furnishing items, or artisanal beauty products.
Check out some of the previously sold items from talented London Met students and graduates below.
Previous sellers told us.
“I really enjoyed talking to people about design and especially what they think about my products! It’s great experience and I’d definitely do it again! Thank you!”
“I gained invaluable feedback on test products which has given me the confidence to go ahead with a number of new designs”
“It was great to run the small business and make something as a collective that generally worked, and to see how the public reacted to it”
“It was really good to see that people actually wanted to spend their hard earn cashed on products I had spent time thinking and making”
“…the experience was a real confidence builder when it comes to showing the public what I design…”
“The feedback we got was amazing and showed that as a studio we’re able to viably produce design within other sectors of the industry…”
Register interest
Interested in joining our 2024 Makers Market programme? Register your interest by filling out the form below.