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Colour Find by Candy Joyce

Today our Colour Find is courtesy of the very lovely Candy Joyce who joined us on placement last month.

Photographic Blanks

 

This month we are taking a break from pattern design and asking you to focus on Photographic Blanks. We've already had lots of great entries but you have until Monday 3rd June to get snapping away and enter. Check out the full brief and the latest entries over here.

Graduate Show: Surface Pattern Design Show at Swansea Metropolitan University

Taking place at the Swansea Grand Theatre from the 28th-31st May 2012, the Surface Pattern Design Show brings together thirty four final-year students to create an exciting and diverse exhibition, divided into three disciplines: Contemporary Applied Arts Practice, Textiles for Fashion and Textiles for Interiors.

Materials used include acrylic, metal, wire, glass, porcelain, paper, wood, leather and an impressive range of natural and synthetic fabrics.

The work on show is ambitious, with a wide range of outcomes from drawing and painting to ceramics, photography and printmaking.

The title of the exhibition is ‘Spectrum’, suggesting colour, diversity, breadth and variety.

Graduate Show: Art + Design at De Montfort University

 

  © Jessie Louise Hadley

The De Montfort Art and Design Degree Show celebrates the talent and innovative work of the final year art and design students. The exhibition showcases exciting creations by the next generation of artists and designers across all of the art and design courses and attracts over 4000 visitors including potential employers.

Opening times 2013

Friday 14 June
5.30pm - 8.30pm

Saturday 15 June
11am - 4pm

Monday 17 June - Wednesday 19 June
10am - 5pm

Thursday 20 June
10am - 8.30pm

Location: De Montfort University, Fletcher Building.

For further information contact:
W: www.dmu.ac.uk/degree-show/degree-show/

E: degreeshow@dmu.ac.uk

 

 

 

Graduate Show: Textiles for Fashion and Interiors Degree Show at Cardiff Metropolitan University

Textiles for Fashion and Interiors Degree Show at Cardiff Metropolitan University - 1st - 14th June 2013.

A showcase of the best work from final year textile makers and designers. The course encourages learning across print, stitch and mixed media, combining hand and machine processes. The show will reflect student's specialities across this varied spectrum.

Across the class the degree obtain designs from floral to geometric, traditional to contemporary, something to attract each market of the textile industry, including greetings cards.

 

 

Graduate Show: The University of Huddersfield

The University of Huddersfield Textile Degree show is fast approaching and with a very exciting programme of workshops that you can get involved with. Be sure to check out the links for the full details and also the work of all the students here and Janine Singleton who we enjoyed meeting at the regional heat for the SDC Competition.

http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/artdesignandarchitecture/adaevents/

http://sample13huduni.blogspot.co.uk/

 

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Illustration Show at The University of Lincoln

Graduate Show Call Out!

Hello all!

It’s getting to that time of year once again when we see so much new design talent out and about at all the graduate shows.

This year we will be once again at New Designers where we will be sponsoring Week 1 and will have our stand with lots of Tigerprinters for both parts of the show.

So if this is your year and you have a graduate show coming up then we want to hear from you!

Please send us the details of your show and include:

* Dates and time
* Location
* Uni/ college and the course
* Links
* Images of your work or the show poster etc


If you could send all this to me at victoria.lem@hallmark-uk.com and one of the team will happily pop a post up on the blog to promote it for you.

It’s such an exciting time of year and we wish everyone exhibiting this year the best of luck and we hope to meet as many of you as possible as we visit the shows this summer.

Colour Find

Behind The Scenes

Today, we held a bake off here in the Tigerprint Studio! All money that was raised will be donated to our two charities that we are supporting this year. These are Cancer Research and Forget Me Not Children's Hospice.

Things We Love...

From left to right; Bear hat, cake spatula, Grandma's Bush radio, amber Buddha (one of many), unicorn necklace, snitch necklace, custom made hawk necklace (all gifts from the boyfriend), parents wedding photo, Scott Pilgrim DVD & tardis teapot.

Society of Dyers and Colourists Celebration Dinner 2013

  Jessica Wilde - Winner of Tigerprint & SDC Colour Competition

  The Tigerprint Team

  Rebecca Diggle the SDC UK Finalist with the competition judges

A few weeks ago we were delighted to attend the Society of Dyers and Colourists Celebration Dinner here in Bradford. We were kindly asked to display the winner and runners up designs from the Colour Competition which was held earlier this year.

It was such a lovely evening which saw Rebecca Diggle from Nottingham Trent University crowned the UK finalist of the SDC annual international competition. Rebecca is a Decorative Arts student and will fly out to Mumbai later this year for the final of the competition.

In addition Jessica Wilde who was our Colour Competition winner earlier this year was presented with a goodie bag, certificate and beautiful flowers in a special presentation at the dinner. This was a wonderful end to the two week placement which Jessica completed here at Tigerprint.

Congratulations to both Jessica and Rebecca and we wish Rebecca the best of luck with the final in November.

 

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Colour Find

Designer Spotlight - Gavin Rutherford

Gavin Rutherford is an Illustration graduate, coffee addict and aspiring pattern designer currently based in Edinburgh. Since leaving university, Gavin has been building up an extensive portfolio of intricate pattern designs and one-off prints.

His work is inspired by a variety of sources, from floral motifs and insects, to shells, crystalline shapes and household objects, leading to quite an eclectic portfolio of designs. His style itself is based on a simple love of delicate pen work and decorative detail. He was recently awarded a pattern scholarship by Rachael Taylor and after studying her online course, looks forward to carving out a career in the surface design industry.
A full online portfolio of his work can be viewed at www.gavinrutherford.com

Things We Love

Cube necklace from Accessorize, What Katie Ate cookery book with beautiful food styling, Kindle in a leopard print case, tortoiseshell glasses, Chase vodka, a card I picked up at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, purple studded handbag from my besties, blingy bracelet from Accessorize, 105 Krona from a trip to Reykjavik, flapjack my Mum made, Deborah Lippmann 'Boom Boom Pow' gold glitter polish and Maybelline 'extreme blackcurrant' polish.