Day Two for alumni 2016 Rebecca Garforth at her new, exciting job at Ling cards.
Rebecca is thrilled to have secured her dream job at this well respected and much admired greetings card company.
Every success Rebecca for a happy future at Ling.
Industry
Construction and Manipulation
Working with industry the 2nd years excel with their constructed outcomes.
Personal achievements in the 2nd yr
Stop Press
We are delighted to announce that two of our 1st year students have made the shortlist for the Lewis and Wood wallpaper competition.
Congratulations for getting this far in this nationwide competition.
We are thrilled for you both.
Good luck Sarah Wilkinson and Lucinda Rogers in the next round.
Dream Job
ALUMNI 2016 Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors.
Celebrating the big move tomorrow to start my dream job Monday 🍾🍾🍾 #print#designer#textiles#design
Bath School of Art and Design liaise with Industry.
Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors are always pleased and excited to be working with industry and business and our latest contacts are no exception.
We were warmly welcomed to their headquarters last week and thoroughly enjoyed our tour of their factory and studio.
The staff were extremely knowledgeable and shared information willingly.
We look forward to our future joint projects and student support.
The design studios. Textiles and graphics students work side by side.
The digital machines work alongside roller printers
We meet up with an ex student who is now working for the company.
Colour is an essential and exacting part of the design process
Vital colour matching
Essential colour mixing in all departments
Getting the colour exact
Colour matching.The programme analyses the colour ration and adjusts according to the entered requirements.
Varying widths and weights of paper are used depending on the final use of the printed and or embossed surface covering
The vast array of papers in varying widths and weights
Design, colour and printing
Mixing the coating
Preparing the PVC coating.This type of surface in mainly used in contract orders for commercial venues such as hotels,cruise ships, hospitals and module homes.
The fabric base is away from the selvedge once the material has been coated
Random swatches taken for colour analysis.
Three wallpaper drops are examined for variation in colour, printing or any other inherent faults
Racks of embossing cylinders
Looking at registration and repeat
Bespoke wallpaper for clients
Samples designs for the contract market.
and finally the boardroom
Good Luck Sophie
Good luck to this year’s graduate Sophie Dickinson as she starts her first design studio job in Manchester.
Sophie’s amazing drawing skills and brave use of scale and colour make her an accomplished and skilled designer.
All the very best Sophie.
The Big Feastival
Lou Oakley-Green, one of our current third year student, has been working her socks off this holidays and thoroughly enjoying herself
Read all about it here…..
For the second year running I have had the pleasure of being involved in the interior installation for Alex James’ Cheese Hub at The Big Feastival.
Working closely with designer Amy Spicer, and Rebecca McDonald to install and create a beautiful woolly interior using products and materials donated by Cheese Hub partners Campaign for Wool.
We restyled the giant chandelier made by Wool and the Gang last year using yarns contributed by West Yorkshire Spinners to compliment The Groucho Club furniture. And, this year one of my biggest tasks was to knit, on site, a 3m x 2.5m backdrop for the DJ booth using Merino wool roving provided by Laxtons Specialist Yarns – knitted on huge poles and hand stitched with gold detail.
The Cheese Hub was packed all weekend and it was an honour to be part of such an amazing team.
You can read the Campaign for Wool write up here.
Waitrose and Rhian
A graduate from this years Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors Rhian Benyon is showing a selection of her exquisite work in Waitrose Bath
The beautiful wallpapers show her skill in drawing,colour and pattern distribution.
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Polly at M&S
Alumni 2015 Polly Ferrar shows her Summer 2016 children’s collection for M&S.
Polly’s dream job was to work in children’s wear and, after working tremendously hard for her degree,she was successful at interview,securing a position in M&S’ children’s wear dept.
That's What I Want To Do 