Just what you come across on a whizz around the studios at night!
Incidental colour in the studio
Drawing and Painting
The 1st years are really into it!
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.
Magnificent!
We are so delighted for this years graduate Lydia Knight,BA Hons Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors .
Her sensitive ,intricate drawing and beautiful handling of colour and proportion has secured her a place with Texprint
Images on the hoof from our roving correspondent-Zoe Miller.
As part of London Design Festival Decorex opened it’s doors this week and visitors were greeted by the dramatic and sensational work of this year’s graduates Chloe Gregory and Annie James in the Sion Estate Restaurant.
Thank you Zoe for the ‘on the hoof’ shots
What a lucky little girl Polly’s niece is
3rd yr degree student Polly has based her final collection of children’s clothes around her niece.
Exciting prints decorate dresses,tee shirts and assessories.Attention to detail and a love of the unusual make this collection stand out and are creating a lot of attention
Her niece has chosen her favourite outfit!
Soon we will be able to see the whole collection displated in Polly’s exhibition open from June 6 -14th at Bath School of Art and Design
The conventional becoming less conventional
Chloe starting another print.We can’t wait to see where it leads to.
Three different types of drawing styles and three very different subjects.
No house style!
A vital part of the design process part 1
Sketchbooks
An essential part of any design process is the gathering together,and recording,of inspirational and influencial components. It’s by using and adapting this information that you will work towards an eventual outcome.
For a textile designer these components or information will be an eclectic mix of inspiration in the form of passions seen and recorded.It could be any one, or a combinations, of a 1.000 things, for e.g.
Land and City scapes,Floral,Figurative,Nature, Architecture and Geometrics etc…
Drawing and painting,photography,scale, movement, colour, texture, materials and possible outcomes can all be found in a design sketchbook.
It’s in these books that ideas are pursued or allowed to lie fallow until they become appropriate.
Not giving up and continuing to work away at your ideas brings rewards – You do improve and you do get better. It is not necessarily always the most obviously gifted people who survive, it’s the ones who stick at it and our committed.They are not always the most confident but they are the ones who really, really want to do it. Be as openminded as these people -this attitude will inspire you try out new ideas.
Soon you develop a voice,opinion or a signature and, for the time being, you are happy and ready to move onto the next stage.
Contextual reference is handy too.Knowing this information helps you understand where your work sits and where you and your work aspire to be seen in the future.
Sketchbooks are vital when taking ownership of research and information.Who else has your unique way of seeing things ? Don’t keep it to yourself.Share. You know how inspirational you find others work.Let everyone benefit from your vision too.
Charlotte Raven
We are delighted to learn that alumni Charlotte Raven, who graduated this summer from the textile dept, has accepted a job as a designer at a leading greetings card company.
Here is a glimpse of some of the work Charlotte produced whilst a student .
Congratulations Charlotte.
