Top Drawer is the UK’s leading design-led trade show for gift and interior products, with over 30 years of experience. It's a great place to display your products, boost your brand, and generate leads. You can sell your work and connect with major and independent retailers from the UK and worldwide.
UAL’s Careers and Employability team, along with Clarion Events, offers UAL students and graduates a discount to showcase their work at Top Drawer in a UAL-branded area. The selected exhibitors will get training and support to prepare for the event.
Top Drawer is carefully curated for buyers and includes Top Drawer On Demand, a digital platform connecting brands with buyers.
Products can include:
- gifts
- interior accessories
- soft furnishings
- lighting
- glass, ceramics, jewellery
- craft
- fashion accessories
- stationery
- greetings cards
- frames and prints.
Who can apply?
- You must be a University of the Arts London student or Alumni from an undergraduate, postgraduate or research degree course.
- You cannot have had your own stand at Pulse or Top Drawer or have been part of the UAL Stand in the past.
- You cannot have been trading for more than 3 years.
- You must be present for the duration of the show, including set up and break down.
Costs
The cost to participate in this opportunity if selected:
- £65 (UAL students)
- £160 (UAL graduates / alumni)
Costs cover:
- space to exhibit your work
- stand design and build
- individual promotional material
- promotion and marketing
- training events and support
- public liability insurance.
Apply for Top Drawer 2025
- Applications for the A/W edition of Top Drawer (September 2024) are now closed.
- The next Top Drawer show will take place in January 2025. Applications for this edition will open in the autumn term of 2024.