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# The Poundshop Best of Summer Tour
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/the-poundshop-best-of-summer-tour/
- Published: 2012-06-22T09:48:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:02:23.000Z
- Description: Less cash, more carrry with the design Pound Shop, now on tour around London.
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15, #author-change-2025-05-28

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To promote, and garner more submissions for [The Poundshop](http://thepoundshop.org/?ref=protein.xyz) 6 and 7 coming up in September and December, the online budget design store will be hitting the road this summer with a selection of its best products and a pop-up shop designed by [Studio Good One](www.studiogoodone.com).

Set up in 2010, Sarah Gotlieb, George Wu and Sara Melin - on the back of a joke about pound shops and a shared fondness for design - challenged themselves to create the first ever design pound shop. Their aim was, and continues to be, to provide a platform for designers to sell their wares under the strict price points of £1, £5 and £10 and thus spread design to a wider audience.

The first port of call will be [Queen Mary University](http://www.qmul.ac.uk/?ref=protein.xyz) on 23rd June for High Street 2012, then the [London Festival of Architecture](http://www.lfa2012.org/?ref=protein.xyz) on 24th June, [Cargo](http://www.cargo-london.com/?ref=protein.xyz) on July 12th and then on to the [Secret Garden Party](http://www.secretgardenparty.com/?ref=protein.xyz#!/home/) festival19th - 22nd July.

Yet another instance of the ubiquitous pop-up phenomenon, The Poundshop is a mutually beneficial endeavour that gives up-and-coming designers vital exposure and a testing ground for new products, and engages those who may presume that these sorts of objects are beyond their reach.

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