Scarlet Projects was born on February 14th 2000. We offer a new approach to presenting, mediating and utilising design, architecture and visual culture. We are a creative agency, facilitating and producing new ideas. We work with a network of creative talent (both recognised and uncelebrated). We draw on our years of experience in different but related fields in the cutting-edge of the design arena to offer a unique professional creative service to a variety of different clients. We develop projects with an eye to their impact on and potential for the client’s marketing and communication needs.

Partners: Sarah Gaventa MA (RCA) and Claire Catterall MA (RCA)

Sarah Gaventa was for three years the Communications Director of Glasgow 1999: UK City of Architecture and Design with responsibilities for developing the programme for the year, managing the print; promotion; marketing and overall strategy for 14 major exhibitions; a massive publications programme; lecture programme and co-ordination of over 300 events during the year. She was series editor for the books produced to celebrate Glasgow 1999 and edited the Year’s magazine. Before that she was the Press Officer for the RIBA developing national and international links and promoting the Architecture Centre. She is the author of Home Office for Dorling Kindersley and Concrete Design for Mitchell Beazley, and has written features for The Guardian, Sunday Times, Independent on Sunday, The Herald, Elle Decoration and Conde Nast Traveller on contemporary design. Founding committee member for the London Architecture Biennale and member of the City Architecture Forum. Contributor to Icon magazine and Front Row.

Claire Catterall is a curator, writer and critic and has worked in the field of architecture and design for over 10 years. Since leaving the Design Museum in 1994, where she was Curator of Collections, she has curated a number of major exhibitions, and written, edited and contributed to many books and magazines. As curator of Collections at the Design Museum, London, from 1989 until 1994 she was responsible for a wide range of design exhibitions including Eileen Gray (1992), C.F.A. Voysey (1993) and Tokyo Design Network (1994). Projects as an independent curator include the major RCA retrospective exhibition Design of the Times: 100 years of the Royal College of Art (1996), co-curation (with Robert Kronenberg) of the exhibition Portable Architecture at the RIBA (1997), curation of Branson Coates’ exhibition Powerhouse UK: British Creativity Now on Horse Guards Parade for the DTI (1998), Stealing Beauty: British Design Now at the Institute of Contemporary Art (1999), Food: design and culture for Glasgow 1999 (1999), This Appliance Must be Earthed: the work of the Computer Related Design Research Studio at the Royal College of Art, at the Royal College of Art (1999), and Liberty Style (with Professor Anthony Jones and Victor Arwas) for the Japan Arts and Culture Association, an exhibition which toured Japan from June 1999 - May 2000. In 1996 she was a judge on the BBC Design Awards and in 1999 was invited to judge on the Blueprint 100% Design Awards.