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BA (HONS) PRINTED TEXTILES AND SURFACE PATTERN
THE JOURNEY
LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART
2010 - 13
IS THE DESTINATION
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Contents
The Journey
Welcome
The Tribe
Course Structure
Our Studios
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The Destination
Ready for the World
Industry Placements
Testimonials
Graduate Success Profile
Prizes and Accolades
Graduate Contact Details
Credits
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Welcome to our programme and our end of year handbook, which highlights the joys, accolades and dedication that forms part of experience of the BA (Hons) Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern Design cohort.
Documented and assembled in March, we seek to provide you dear reader; a snapshot of our experiences and journeys. It is a visual narrative that seeks to summarise our passion, our creativity, our curiosity and our professionalism.
As a team, indeed a tribe, of printers, dyers, illustrators, stylists, colourists, makers and creators in the widest sense, we have shared values,
ideas and amused ourselves with the joy that is design. We are incredibly proud of our efforts here, for three years we’ve toiled, laboured and just occasionally partied our way to creating a reputation. A reputation for success, based on innovation, ardour, commitment and camaderie.
Within this yearbook, you’ll see more than just a ‘business card’ of each individual, we aim to offer you insights to events and experiences that underpin our whole programme philosophy, how we work and importantly, why we are ready for the wider world of employment, enterprise and creative ventures.
This book then is both an introduction to us and a fond farewell to our graduating cohort.
Whether you be a prospective student, employer or friend, we invite you to join us in toasting what has been another vintage year. The guys and gals have worked their socks off, an excellent gang indeed and we are incredibly proud of our success.
Team Textiles
A Welcome and Salute f rom the Team
The Tr ibe
Year OneDesign for PrintDesign for Digital OutputDesign for PaperDesign for Context 1Context of PracticePersonal and Professional Practice 1
Year TwoDesign and InnovationDesign DirectionResponsiveContext of Practice 2Personal and Professional Practice 2
Year ThreeContext of Practice 3Personal and Professional Practice 3Extended Practice
Isabella Singleton
Amy Bell
Course St ructure
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Nicole Bradley
Florence Colson Catherine Momcilovic
Elizabeth Smith
Learn from your mistakes
The creative ‘buzz’ emanating from our studio exudes energy, enthusiasm and a sense of community that is palpable from the moment you enter our studios.
Housed in an extensive open format design studio, which accommodates all three year groups, (and importantly for each student, your own individual work areas), the arrangement promotes a communicative, collegiate and thriving creative atmosphere.
Our studios afford students a place to see the logical progression from year to year, to contextualise their practice, the studio environment really supports our creativity and skills development, providing a forum to showcase ideas, to explore through drawing and making as well as fostering a sense of being part of a community of designers.
In essence our studio is a place to grow, make mistakes, find a direction, change our mind and identify what we
want to explore next. It is a free space of curiosity to seek doing more than merely ‘good’ work.
‘Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as youstick to good you’ll never have real growth.’
Bruce Mau – Manifesto for growth No. 2
Our Studios
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Sophia Gilbert
Natalie Ratcliffe
IN ESSENCE OUR STUDIO IS A PLACE TO GROW,
MAKE MISTAKES, FIND DIRECTION,
CHANGE OUR MIND AND IDENTIFY WHAT WE WANT TO EXPLORE NEXT
Grizelda Kitching
Heidi Spinks Kim Dawkins
Ealish Walmsley-JonesBryony Atkinson
Katie Fitzpatrick
Fleur Terry
Alice Learmonth Emma Burton
Rhianna Ellington
Visiting Professionals, Events and Collaborations
Our studio may be a stimulating place to labour with vision, but ultimately means nothing if we are not ready for the outside world. Being ready to get out there and take the world by storm.
Looking to external contexts, employment, global concerns and developing a design practice beyond our studio, the perceptions towards design and aesthetic concern, for clients demands from us that we, recognise, engage and interpret these concerns. Our practice actively is involved with visiting professionals and
collaborations (live briefs) to produce the creation of beautiful, versatile and considered works.
Collaboration with industry, international tours, design competitions and work placements all contribute to an appreciation of design application and realisations.
Recent speakers have included the winners of New Designer of the Year Louise Tiler and Abigail Borg, Wallpaper Designer/Makers Deborah Bowness, Rachel Kelly and Sarah Milton, Internationally celebrated
author and curator Mary Schoesser, as well as artist/makers Patrick Hartley (designer for Lady Gaga) and Tabitha Moses.
New Designers, a showcase for emergent graduating designers held in London each year, provides us an opportunity each year to present to the professional design community, the breadth of quality, invention and creativity we have developed over the duration of our degree period.
Ready for the Wor ld
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Stephanie Rostron
Roisin Johns Felicity Clark
Isobel Walton
Selling globally, across countries as diverse as Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Germany, France, Italy and the U.S. amongst others, every year we go to one of the world’s premier trade fairs for textile design, fashion fabrics and trends, Indigo. We identify forthcoming season’s key trends, colours and looks and then interpret these within our design responses to produce exciting, styled and fresh solutions for the fashion and accessories market to a number of high profile fashion houses and textile organisations. Companies we have recently sold to include Lacroix, Louis Vuitton, Custo Barcelona, Heritory, Alexander Henry Fabrics and Desigual amongst others.
Our annual ‘Worthless & Priceless’ exhibition celebrates values of sustainability, ecology, up-cycling, deconstruction and re-invention. It’s about exploring our immediate world to identify artefacts that are intrinsically deemed ‘worthless’ and through manipulation, engineering and practical workshops we like to resurrect these found objects, like a phoenix from the ashes, to produce innovative solutions and products that can be heralded as ‘priceless’, something to cherish and treasure.
Similarly, our participation annually at Artists book fairs offers us the chance to work with ‘slow crafting’
to produce items and ideas that champion ‘hand over machine’. Whilst we work extremely hard here, now and again we like to slow things down a touch, to engage with respect and appreciation the process, tradition and quality of craft.This philosophy and celebration of quality, beauty and excellence over the aversion of the mundane permeates then throughout the rest of the programme.
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Stephanie-Rose Turner
Elisha Debbage Jessica Sammon
Lucy AndersonCharlotte Mason
Lauren Burke
A space to be wrong
Supported and underpinned by our excellent understanding of technical skills, design principles and work attitudes we also like to get stuck in to ‘real’ world. To that end, in addition to our events, live briefs and collaborations, all of which simulate life outside our studios, we actively seek placements and internships.
This year, as graduates we have undertaken a number of placements with the likes ofJonathan Saunders, Mirjam Rouden, Muraspec, Designers Guild, Specialised Covers, Amanda Kelly, Lemon Ribbon, Thornback & Peel, Tigerprint, Pyramid Arts, Duchamp, Home & Garden, Suzy Hoodless, Bombay Duck, Blush Interiors, Zandra Rhodes, First XI, Owens & Kim, Deborah Bowness, Print & Pattern,
Natasha Markham
Natalie Tupper Rosemary Stride
Laura Bigley
Indust r y P lacements
Rob Ryan, Tatler, Global Colour, Pod Interiors, Lauren McCalmont, Pattern Studios, George @ Asda, Circle Line, White Stuff, Alexander McQueen, Vogue, Paper & Cloth, Liberty’s, Drawn in Light, Ink & Spindle, Foxlinton, Olivia Rubin, Mary Katrantzou, Fromental, Graham & Brown, Holly Fulton, Monsoon, Joules, Next, Keeler Gordon, Turner Bianca, Sparkk, and Soochichacha, amongst others.....
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Nikki Barker at Zizzi’s“We work with pre & post graduate artists. Hannah’s work was of a very high standard, and was more thought through than some of our qualified artists”
Emma Shipley at Thornback and Peel“Charlotte was a fantastic intern. She was always eager to help. Her work was accurate and neat (which is vital here!) She was a pleasure to have around the studio and we would welcome her back at any time.”
Helen Truran at Jonathan Saunders“Hannah worked mainly on Mens AW13 and Prefall 13 development, experimenting
Frances Jones
Hannah Locker
Test imonia ls
with design ideas in Photoshop and Illustrator to work towards woven, knit and print designs. Under constantly changing briefs and ideas, Hannah showed great computer skills and work ethic.”
Edward Weale at Lemon Ribbon“The work undertaken by Emma included designing a number of projects, as well as helping us prepare for the show through pre-show marketing and stand preparation. We took her to client appointments and she assisted us in preparing the collection to view as well as dealing with any feedback from the clients. Emma had a great insight into the workings of a design studio around the launch of a seasonal collection. She saw how
trends are developed for and interpreted by designers all the way through to seeing clients reactions to those designs.”
Yvonne Chan at Olivia Rubin“Natalie has been very helpful during her time with us, she was a great help assisting us, before and after the event and was especially helpful and professional during the event in September. It was a pleasure having Natalie, she is very polite and professional in her approach to work.”`
Lindsey Weir at Mary Katrantzou“Hannah was able to be part of the print technical team for a collaborative project and also for the initial print development.”
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Hannah Rampley
Hazel Pointer India Bird
Kate Mills
THE CREATIVE ‘BUZZ’ EMANATING FROM OUR STUDIO EXUDES
ENERGY, ENTHUSIASM AND A SENSE OF COMMUNITY THAT IS PALPABLE FROM THE MOMENT
YOU ENTER OUR STUDIOS
Madison Diggs
Suzanna Braithwaite Rosie Gray-Cowley
Joanna Wood Samantha Scott
Georgia Alcock
The majority of our graduates are employed in design teams or studios in the wide range of industries our subject covers and others establish their own practice as designers/ makers. Whatever the individual chooses, our world of design is rich, exciting and fluid. It is forward thinking yet rooted in history and will always embrace innovation, new ideas and vision.
Looking at our success, employment, accolades and commitment to our discipline, hopefully you appreciate that we are not just good at what we do, we like to think that perhaps you will agree with us and recognise that perhaps we are just a little bit special too.
Alexa Jones
Amy Worsley
Graduate Success Prof i le
With 92.7% of our cohort in related employment or education within six months*, we invite you to come take a look and find out why we are just what you are looking for.
*DHLE stats - correct as of April 2013
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SUPPORTED AND UNDERPINNED BY OUR EXCELLENT UNDERSTANDING
OF TECHNICAL SKILLS, DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND WORK ATTITUDES WE ALSO LIKE TO GET STUCK IN TO
THE ‘REAL’ WORLD
Grace Foster
Helen Convery
Emily Atherton Jessica Browning
Lucy Palmer Anna Gurrey
Hannah Lipinski
Sophie Plester
Fact is, we rather like winning prizes. It makes us feel special to know that we are appreciated. Recently we have had the following successes.2013 success so far...
Winner of Sofa.com’s ‘Emerging Designer 2013’ www.sofa.com/emerging-designer-winner
EGE in conjunction with FX magazine (Denmark) Finalist
Nuveau Design Competition 2012-13 (International) 3rd Prize www.nd-competition.com/index.php?id=1702
Textile Society Undergraduate Student Bursary Award
Winner of the Textile Society Student Award www.textilesociety.org.uk/bursaries-awards/student-bursary-winners.php
Society of Dyers and Colourists 2013 Northern Region Runner Up
Bradford Textile Society CompetitionThis year, we are currently progressing well in the Competition with yet another host of successes including:
Worshipful Company of Dyers Award (Fashion)2 CommendationsPRESTIGIOUS TEXTILES AWARD (Interiors) 2nd Prize
Pr izes and Accolades
Clothworkers’ Foundation Award (Fashion)2 commendations
Clothworkers’ Foundation Award (Interiors)2nd Prize and Commendation
Bradford College Textile Archive Award (Archive)3 Commendations
Association of Fashion & Textile Courses Award (Fashion)1st Prize
Clothworkers’ Foundation Award (Material Construction)2nd & 3rd Prize and Commendation
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Surtex New York 2013 For an unbelievable 3rd year in a row now, one of our girls has just been announced as a winner of this prestigious high profile event set in New York.This year, applicants were asked to design a surface for any product/material that promoted and related to wellbeing and healthcare. The prize includes a stand at Surtex Trade Fair in the U.S., promotion and networking with leading industry buyers and employers.
Supurb Design Brief 2013 2nd Place www.supurb.co/#!supurb-award/c1k5j
CSI Colour Award 2012 Finalist
Beta Fashion Winner January and February 2013, and 3 other winnerswww.betafashion.com/competitionratedesign.aspx?SubmissionID=6724www.betafashion.com/competitionratedesign.aspx?SubmissionID=6566
2012 Successes...
Bradford Textile Society CompetitionWe had a rather jolly good innings at this (23 prizes/commendations along with a few thousand pounds in prize money) the relevant results are:
Worshipful Company of Dyers Award (Fashion)
2nd, 3rd Prizes and 4 commendations.
Prestigious Textiles Award (Interiors) 2nd, 3rd Prizes and 2 commendations.
Clothworkers’ Foundation Award (Fashion)1st prize and 2 commendations
Clothworkers’ Foundation Award (Interiors)3rd Prize and Commendation
Association of Fashion & Textile Courses Award (Fashion)1st, 2nd and 3rd Prizes plus 4 Commendations
Clothworkers’ Foundation Award(Material Construction) Commendation2 ‘Travel Bursary Award to Paris, Indigo’Best in show Grand Prize Winner, Overall Award which went to the BA (Hons) Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern Design Dept for its success across the board of the competition. News article here: www.leeds-art.ac.uk/home/news-events/news/article/our-textiles-department-wins-outstanding-achievement-award/
Surtex New York 2012 Winner www.leeds-art.ac.uk/home/news-events/news/article/international-competition-win-for-poppy and here
www.surtex.com/News/designextWinners/tabid/296/Default.aspx
A fabulous and very high profile event set in NY, to design fabric and papers for a given market, in which, we were both the winner and the Grand Prize Winner last year too!
Ideal Wallpaper Design of the Year 2012 Finalist
SDC International Design Competition 2012 North of England Runner Up
Zizzi’s Fresh Talent 2012 Winner www.zizzi.co.uk/menucompetition
Print Odyssey 2012 Invited exhibitor @ Print Odyssey 2012 www.printodyssey-2012.blogspot.co.uk/p/about.html
Tigerprint Studio Competition 2 winners
BETA 4 Winners
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Alicia Galer
Hannah Hope Johnson
CAMAC Design Competitions
Graham & Brown WinnerTimorous Beasties WinnerAnstey Winner Pugin Society WinnerWallpaper History Society Winner
Muraspec Wallpaper Company Live Brief winner
New Designers 2012An annual exhibition held in London for graduating students to showcase their skills and seek employment. Again we had a fab year with lots of the gang securing employment, internships and commissions for work.
We also continued in our rich vein of winning prizes there, following up on 2011’s New Designer of the Year Award with these two much coveted awards:
Tigerprint AwardWinner (Kathryn Fowler)£500 plus 6 months paid internship – We have won this prize 2 years in a row now! www.newdesigners.com/page.cfm/link=121
Harlequin AwardWinner£1000 plus placementwww.newdesigners.com/page.cfm/link=231
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Aoife Hallgate-Hills
Heather Shutt Hannah Bowen
Elanor James
THE MAJORITY OF OUR GRADUATES ARE EMPLOYED IN DESIGN TEAMS OR STUDIOS IN
THE WIDE RANGE OF INDUSTRIES OUR SUBJECT COVERS AND
OTHERS ESTABLISH THEIR OWN PRACTICE AS DESIGNERS/MAKERS
Kirrie Preston
Emma Cook
Graduate Contact Detai l s
Georgia Alcockwww.georgiaalexandra.com
Lucy Andersonwww.lucyandersondesign. tumblr.com
Emily Athertonwww.emilyatherton.com
Bryony Atkinsonwww.bryonyatkinson-printedtextiles.tumblr.com
Amy Bellwww.amyelizabethbell.tumblr.com
Laura [email protected]
India Birdwww.cargocollective.com/indiarosebird
Hannah Bowenwww.hannahbowen.com
Nicole Bradleywww.nicoleflorencebradley.co.uk
Suzanna Braithwaitewww.s-braithwaite.tumblr.com
Jessica Browningwww.jessicabrowning91. tumblr.com
Lauren Burkewww.laurenmarieburke.co.uk
Emma Burtonwww.iamemmaburton.co.uk
Felicity Clarkwww.felicityannclark.tumblr.com
Florence Colsonwww.florenceangelicacols.wix.com/florencetextiles
Helen Converywww.helenconvery.tumblr.com
Emma Cookwww.emmacooksurfacepattern.com
Kim Dawkinswww.kimdawkins.com
Elisha Debbagewww.elishadebbagedesign.tumblr.com
Madison Diggswww.madisondiggs. carbonmade.com
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Rhianna Ellingtonwww.rhiannaellington.com
Katie Fitzpatrickwww.katiefitzpatrick.co.uk
Grace Fosterwww.gracefoster.co.uk
Alicia Galerwww.aliciagaler.com
Sophia Gilbertwww.sophiagilbert.tumblr.com
Rosie Gray-Cowleywww.rosiegraycowley.com
Anna Gurreywww.annagurreyprintedtextiles.com
Aoife Hallgate-Hillswww.aoifehills.com
Eleanor Jameswww.cargocollective.com/eleanor-james
Roisin Johnswww.roisinjohns.tumblr.com
Hannah Hope Johnsonwww.hannah5.wix.com/ hannah-hope-johnson
Alexa Joneswww.alexajonesdesigns. tumblr.com
Frances Joneswww.rococojones.tumblr.com
Grizelda Kitchingwww.grizeldakitching.tumblr.com
Alice Learmonthwww.alicekatelearmonth.co.uk
Hannah Lipinskiwww.hannahlipinski.com
Hannah Lockerwww.cargocollective.com/hannahvictorialocker
Natasha Markhamwww.tashamarkham.co.uk
Charlotte Masonwww.charlottemasondesign.co.uk
Kate Millswww.katerosemills.tumblr.com
Catherine Momcilovicwww.catherinemomcilovic.tumblr.com
Lucy Palmerwww.lucyrebeccapalmer.co.uk
Sophie Plesterwww.sophieplester.tumblr.com
Hazel Pointerwww.hazelpointer.wix.com/textiledesigner
Kirrie Prestonwww.facebook.com/pages/Kirrie-Lousie-Preston/517405468298828
Hannah Rampleywww.hannahrampley.com
Natalie Ratcliffewww.natalieratcliffe.com
Stephanie Rostronwww.stephanierostron.tumblr.com
Jessica Sammonwww.jessica-sammon-design.tumblr.com
Samantha Scottwww.samanthascott12. blogspot.co.uk
Heather Shuttwww.heathershutt.tumblr.com
Isabella Singletonwww.isabellapolly.tumblr.com
Elizabeth Smithwww.elizabethrosedesign.co.uk
Heidi [email protected]
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Rosemary Stridewww.roseyjanestride.co.uk
Fleur Terrywww.fleurterry.tumblr.com
Natalie [email protected]
Stephanie-Rose Turnerwww.stephanie-roset.tumblr.com
Ealish Walmsley-Joneswww.ealishwalmsley.wix.com/printedtextiles
Isobel [email protected]
Joanna Woodwww.iamjoannawood.co.uk
Amy Worsleywww.amyworsleyprintedtextiles.com
Credi ts
Yearbook Designers
Kirsty [email protected]
Claudia [email protected]
Kirsty [email protected]
Sophie [email protected]
Photography
Jessie [email protected]
Team [email protected]
Duncan HarrisonEmma HaywardCaroline PrattJulie HughesDebra RobertsClare LaneSam BroadheadRebecca Brooks
Leeds College of ArtBlenheim WalkLeedsLS2 9AQUnited Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 113 202 [email protected]
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