REAL English for Designers
Designers, join Blue Noun for a design-filled immersion week in Scotland from 23rd to 29th September.
Design Week is a holiday exploring the biannual Dundee Design Festival through conversation, led and hosted by Blue Noun English Hub in Crieff, Perthshire.
Enjoy a week of immersion activities to improve your English skills for art and design, with peers and our community.
It’s not all work! From wild swimming to ghost hunting, we’ve got a range of cultural activities designed to help you be yourself in English – and feel good there.
Only 3 places available.
Find out more.
English for Creative Careers
Designers, the only way to get comfortable speaking about your work is by BEING an English speaker in art & design contexts.
That’s what will make you a confident English user.
Not a classroom.
Not a generic language course.
Throughout the year, we offer a practice-led English course. It’s a clever combination of chats, creative projects and collaborations that uniquely flexes your creativity WITH your English.
However, September is your one month to get talking. In the UK. About art & design.
You could take a creative mini-artist residency in the first part of the month.
Or choose Design Week. That’s a week-long immersion in the world (and language) of design.
Price
This holiday costs £1,600
Accommodation is with a local homestay host, priced at £25 per night
Travel to the design festival and all other activities is included, picnics and homecooking provided, restaurants & café meals not included.
Dates & Details
- Fly to Edinburgh Airport on (or before*) Sunday 22 September
- Book your return flight 29th & 30th September
* join us for this whole weekend and just pay your extra accommodation costs
Holiday Course Format
In the days between 23rd September & 29th September, you’ll visit Dundee 3-4 times, participate in public events linked to the Dundee Design Festival and enjoy private conversations with artists, designers and cultural advocates.
There are only 3 places on this course.
Book yours today!
Building Your Confidence
This English immersion holiday will build specific English for Design skills, and support general English fluency through activities we know build a sense of belonging in English.
Artist Workshop
Have a morning in an artist workshop making something beautiful.
We have 3 local artists, a printmaker, a mosaic artist and a ceramicist who can share a practical art-making workshop with you.
Guided Nature Walk
Feel good with English, with a personalised, guided nature walk.
Jen doesn’t just show you stuff, she takes you to her favourite spots and invites you to take off your shoes, to touch and smell the different parts of the landscape and be here, present.
It sounds simple enough, but don’t underestimate its transformative power.
This is a powerful way to slow down and be still (letting calm into your English). You’ll move through the landscape differently after a guided walk with Jen.
Cooking
Sharing food IS sharing culture. We’ll be eating and cooking together at the Blue Noun Hub. Expect great local produce, recipes from around the world and storytelling.
Distillery Visit |The Glenturret
Our local distillery underwent a rebranding a few years ago. Discover the past brand and the new brand. We’ll talk bottle design, labels, marketing and positioning as well as touring ‘Scotland’s Oldest Distillery,’ (find out the story behind that moniker).
Enjoy a whiskey tasting at the distillery and at Blue Noun Language Hub (we have a collection).
Innerpeffray Library
With all the new design you’ll be discovering, mwe’ll make time for you to lose yourself in the visual language of the past at Innerpeffray Library.
Explore illuminated manuscripts, old maps, botanical illustrations and early charts of the stars.
For visual communicators, this place is not just charming, it’s magical.
Design Week
Design week is an English Language Holiday by Blue Noun Language Hub.
For one month of the year we have a ‘creative takeover’ and only help artists, designers and makers.
See our Terms & Conditions.
All the usual holiday Terms & Conditions apply.
Extend the Adventure
Prior to Design Week, we are hosting a fortnight-long Mini-Artist Residency.
Come and join the fun!
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