New Designers

A manic week of a very hot and sticky New Designers is over. Islington's Business Design Centre acted as a greenhouse full of high-vis, frantic, textile students. Our eclectic and somewhat overloaded stall proved a hit, with lots of lovely comments from the public. Here's my little New Designers corner. Thanks to my dearest Freya Lines for the photos. You can also see Carlotta Morandini's amazing snaky rug, the wonderful Natsumi Kondo's day-to-night garments, Monika Kotz's beautiful 'more is more' wallpaper and a bit of Sally Poore's genius screen-printed shed. Wonderful work girls, the class of 2010 has well and truly excelled itself!

circus collage

I forgot to include some pictures of my big, door-hugging circus collage. After a day of polyfilla, paint and sandpaper doing the de-rig, my cheetahs, elephants and ponies are all sat in a box waiting to be unleashed at New Designers.

pony print

Some experimental prints for my Circus Design project - looking at all things bright, bold, ridiculous, tacky, outlandish using scratchy photocopies and sloppy colour separations.

Circus Design

A little introduction to my 'Final Major Project': my final uni project which will be keeping me company for the next few months. As a Surface Design student, people often mishear me when I tell them what I'm studying - often leading to excited gasps of "Wow, Circus Design?!?". Sick of this misunderstanding, and intrigued by the prospect of such a course, I have decided to undertake a surface designers take on Circus Design. I'll be looking at the bold, gaudy, overblown, graphic aesthetic of the circus and considering the spaces of the circus and how this could be reinterpreted... that's the plan, anyway...