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.

Wallpapers Are Printed!

After a couple of weeks working on my designs, tweaking colours, new layouts and considering which ones could go together with my fabric print, I have chosen to print off 9 designs.

I have put them into 3 collections of 3, based on colour and how busy they are. Some are really simple, more like textures, and others more statement, one wall kind of designs.

Since I have my big print I chose just to print off the repeat square of each one. This way I can put a few in my degree show and the others will fit in my portfolio!

Here they are!

Extra Prints

Staffordshire University had an open day on Saturday and the studio was open all day for us to use, so I jumped at the chance!

I had a big print table to myself, so I decided to do some big art pieces that I can frame or stretch onto frames.

Was great to have a quiet print room and lots of space to do whatever I liked, and I'm really pleased with how it all turned out, bonus!

Back To Work!

After having two weeks off I am back in uni, already feels like I have never been away!

Over the last two days I have managed to complete the second layer of my fabric with all of the patterns printed on.

I am really happy with how it has turned out, none of the pattern detail has been lost and the colours look great.

Even better, because this has taken such a short amount of time I am going to do a second print but change it slightly, getting more use out of my screens!