Eindhoven and Amsterdam-We’re loving’ it

What impressive inspiration is being gathered in Eindhoven Holland during Dutch Design Week:Surface,structure,shape,materials,pattern, colour and concept etc…

Our students are busy reassessing how their work could be seen and shown and how this will fit into a European market.

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10 Ways You’re Sabotaging Yourself as an Artist

Occasionally posts on what we think are great links to fascinating and relevant articles for artists and designers

http://jungkatz.com/2014/06/05/10-artist-mistakes/

Could you be doing this without realising?

Phew!

Dashed off the train from Hereford last night to what I thought would be an evening of frustration and angst.
HOWEVER all went well.
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The hanging of the beautiful work of Sarah Fennel in Waitrose went like a dream and we’d finished in an hour.

Please do visit Waitrose and see Sarah’s work in its full glory.

Establishing links

In Norway for round table meetings with universities from around the world to discuss student exchange and the Erasmus schemes.Exciting times for our students

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Day 1

Making a start on their final major project.Here the small cohort of third year students working with flowers prepare the way.

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To be continued.The 3rd yr display their first assessment -FABULOUS

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Print and embroidery for both fashion and interior textiles

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Delighted by the work from the 3rd yrs

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Here is a selection of some of the wonderful and exciting work from the current 3rd yr textile students at Bath School of Art and Design

Trend Forecasting

Graduating textile students setting the trend.

Bloggers Style Bubble and Design Juices look to our graduating students for future trends

On this occasion alumni Rebecca Robertson stole the show!

USA and Japan

Here we are in New York USA and Tokyo in Japan visiting design studios and meeting with designers.
Very generously we are shown excellent design practise and future fabric forecasting.

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Joelle Preddy

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Joelle in her space , working on 3D outcomes for Interiors.
Joelle’s work on display at New Designers Islington London
The exhibition image also features the work of Rebecca Taylor, Danielle Neill,Rebecca Collingridge, Verity Armistead,Tabitha Cottrell,Polly Rowan,April Sharman and Sarah Li.