Friday 23 August 2013

Norway & Sweden

I am feeling like I actually have muscles at the moment after returning from a trip to Sweden. It was a canoeing holiday which was amazing. The country is soo beautiful so many lakes and a lot of greenery and the trip was amazing but it was hard work and tiring.



Thursday 11 July 2013

Beijing Adventure!!

I have just arrived back from an amazing holiday in Beijing! The trip was really exciting and we jam packed it full of sight seeing. The cutest of which was definitely seeing the giant pandas at the Beijing zoo such lovely (yet lazy) animals. This one was doing a very impressive rug impersonation!


While we were their we went to visit a lot of different temples but my favourite of these was definitely the Lama temple. The building were beautiful and full of a huge variety of Buddhist statues including the worlds largest sandalwood Buddha! The best thing about the Lama temple was definitely the people and the atmosphere everyone was praying and burning big bundles of incense, totally amazing place.



The most exciting part of the trip was going out of the city to see the great wall of china, i was amazed by the views and for how far you could see the wall stretching out into the distance. We went to the part of the wall in Mutianyu which isn't quiet as crowded as other parts and has the added benefit of having a cable car up to the wall and a toboggan slide to get you back down... brilliant!!!












Thursday 13 June 2013

M&S tea towels by Amanda Luke!

I was so excited to see these tea towels on sale at M&S yesterday I just had to buy them! The beautiful vintage tea set designs are by a great designer called Amanda Luke, who graduated from the Hereford College of Arts a couple of years ago, i hope you guys like them just as much as i do! :D


Friday 7 June 2013

New bunny!

We have just adopted a lovely lionhead bunny called Thorin today to be friends with Gary our little girl lop rabbit :D

                                                                                                   Thorin

                                                Gary

Wednesday 5 June 2013

assessment

We have had assessment with Dash & Miller for the project, I feel pleased with the final outcomes that were aimed at the designer Louise Gray and I have had sooo much fun designing with so many bright colours and pattern combinations.




Sunday 26 May 2013

designing fashion illustrations

As it is now coming up to the end of the project ( only a week left eekkk!) I am developing my designs for my final collect ready to present to Dash & Miller next Friday. I have used a combination of digital printing, batik and screen printing to make my final designs.



Saturday 25 May 2013

Cath Kidston - Hay festival

I had such a great day yesterday at the Hay festival. I went to Cath Kidston's talk about how she made her business so successful it was great. She was such a lovely and interesting lady :)


Saturday 4 May 2013

The Hereford Cathedral prints that I made for the last project are now up on show at the Apple Store gallery.







Thursday 25 April 2013

This is a photo of my board from uni, it shows some images and photos that I have been using as inspiration it's predominantly photos I took from a trip to Barcelona and the Gaudi buildings I visited while I was there and images of Louise Gray's work.


I have also started sketching from some of these photo's





Tuesday 23 April 2013

Dash & Miller project

The new project we have been set looks like it's going to be very exciting! We have been asked to create a collection for the weave company Dash & Miller and one of there clients. By researching the designers and companies that they've collaborated with in the past, to determined which of their clients we wanted to use as a starting point.


We were also given a selection of mood boards to choose from as a project theme. I have chosen to look at SPLICED COLOUR as the designer i want to look at is Louise Gray and i feel that this theme links in well with her amazing colour palettes and pattern combinations in her fashion designs

Monday 15 April 2013

my final prints

For our last project at college we had to design a product range for a company, i chose to design for the Apple store gallery in Hereford. I looked at the Cathedral and current colour trends as a starting point and these are my final designs which will hopefully be going up in the gallery soon.