M&S Lingerie design competition won!

Earlier this year i entered a design competition for Marks and Spencer lingerie limited edition collection. I have been informed today that my designs has won! Very exciting as it was my first competition entered during my time at uni. The designs are created using my own drawings and other digital manipulation inspired by S/S trends and my own research of textures and feathers.
These were the two designs that won: 

Final Unit Year 2

All done with 2nd year print and am happy with this years outcomes. The final unit was based on London and included a closer study of colour and print texture. Collage was the main use of texture and shape in my initial samples.

Now am currently starting an internship for 2 months at London's Livingstone studio, studying the business and creating my own research to go towards my final project in 3rd year of uni ! Time has simply flown by! 

2nd year Unit 1 complete... happy days

All done with the new unit for the second year... dragged out a little but was worth all the hard work. Quite pleased with the final piece although there's always room for improvement. The project was based around the idea of "compare and contrast" and so after doing some research and sketching i finally chose to work around a fox skull found in a wooded area where i live and some interesting feathers...

And so after 6 months of sketching, sampling i came up with a final art piece using Velvet, Silk Satin and Bamboo Silk and as the piece shows stages, as does the print itself and gradually begins to fall apart. And after being introduced to Devore this semester i can safely say that this technique has been abused alot but all for good purposes...

The piece is 3m tall ad 1.15m wide all together and overall uses 6m of different fabrics to create the different layers. the idea of a visualization was for it to be shown in the natural history museum as a representation of the stages of life and fragility of the objects within the museum, the green and earthy colours also take a part in creating a more natural element to the piece.

All prep work with this project can be found in "UCA Work"

That's a lot of icicles!!!...

Whilst on my way to uni this morning a just had to stop and take a picture of this amazing amount of icicles ... it continues along the bush about 5 meters! 

SNOW DAY!!

Enjoying a day off uni, outside in the snow with the dog :)

Year 1 Completed..

The year has flown by! I've learnt a lot already this year and have a lot more ahead of me in my 2nd and 3rd year at uni. I really enjoyed the last project in the 2nd semester, as i had the chance to go a little bit wild with all the new techniques I've been shown ... and i'm really pleased with the outcome I've created on fabric. Its been a whole new experience and has made me realize how much i need to step up in order to achieve the best in my final year. But for now, i'm going to enjoy and make the most of summer 2012...

Final Piece 1

I'm a printer...

So this week i have officially chosen to specialise in print and my tutors have agreed with me, sadly i know i'm going to really miss weave though. However Uni seems to be going pretty slowly at the moment, i'm hoping it'll pick up soon as i've got a new task on tuesday for 10 weeks... i need work to do!