What I Have Been Up To

Since graduating I have been working on collections for the next Premiere Vision in Paris in September.

Its been really nice to carry on designing and learning new skills. You can never know too much!

With help from Annette Ratti, who runs an Atelier in Manchester, my ex tutors and other students doing the same thing, I have created over 30 designs aimed at womens fashion.

Everything is based on the forecasted trends, using the predicted colour ways and materials. 

Over the last weeks I have learnt how to use illustrator, which is great! And also many more things about designing for fashion, and designing in general. Working in the studio and also from home has taught me a lot about communication and fending for myself now I don't have the comfort of the University studio and facilities! You don't realise how much you miss until it has gone!

Here are some snippets of the work I have done on illustrator so far.

Cushions

Now all my work has been marked and New Designers is over, I have decided to sell my cushions. Being an art and design student I have accumulated a large amount of equipment and produced a lot of work over the years!

I am really bad at not throwing anything away, since you never know when you might need something!

Saying this, my cushions are quite big and I really don't have room for them all! So I would like to send them off to new homes. If anyone if interested in buying one, please contact me:

emilyhackett@me.com

and I can give you more details!

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New Designers

Last week I was at New Designers with the other Surface Pattern and Textile Surfaces students who had chosen to go.

It was a great experience, and very successful!

Was lovely to talk to people about my work and get some great feedback about what I have produced at my time at University. I think the experience is invaluable in terms of meeting people, making contacts in the industry and practising talking to strangers about your work!

It has definitely helped me!

Now University is all finished (apart from Graduation on the 12th July!) I am doing some placements, competitions and maybe some freelance work if I can squeeze it all in, I like to keep myself busy!

Here are a few snaps I took whilst at New Designers:

Past Projects Going To New Designers - Wallpaper

At the start of my third year I was given a brief to create a 'Wall Covering'. This could have been a bespoke creation or a commercial repeat design.

I didn't choose the direction I wanted to go in but concentrated on getting good research and developing my ideas from that.

After visiting the V&A and looking at all the Buddhist artefacts I became interested in the symbols and meanings within the imagery.

Combining this with a colour palette of only white, and a choice of working just with paper, I began to explore every possibility within my limited theme.

Through experimenting with different papers and paper manipulation techniques I developed my work into 5 final ideas.

Arts Thread Portfolio For New Designers

My page now has all my work uploaded. Might put some more on yet but all the most recent 3rd year work I have done is on there.

Hopefully this will bring some interest in what I have done and capable of doing in the future!

It can be found here:

http://www.artsthread.com/p/emilyhackett/

But these are a few screen shots of what the page looks like and what I have put on there.

Staffordshire University Show and Tell Degree Show!

Friday was our opening night, was great to see the studio full of people looking at everyones work, and all making really positive comments. All our hard work payed off and all the work looked great.

I was honoured to be chosen to represent the course by a piece of my work being selected to be framed and hung in the entrance hall where the opening speeches and awards took place.

The work done for Stoke On Trent's Transformation garden was also shown off on a course success story board and on some of the huge posters which is brilliant!

Here are a few images of the my work in the show!

My degree show space, two layer fabric length, canvases, cushions and wallpaper!

Work chosen to represent Surface Pattern at Staffordshire University.

Cushion photograph (far right) on exhibition poster.

My work in the corridor.

Course success stories in the corridor.