New Designers & Degree Show 2011

Students have had a huge success at New Designers this year, including interest from Mama's and Papa's , George at Asda, Hallmark Cards and many more interested design studio / press interest.
Nine graduating students displayed a selection of their degree show work - Ashley Rae, Jamie Bentley, Sammy Kenny, Leanne Greenwood, Amy Bowness, Nazreen Matadar, Melanie Brown, Michelle Cairns and Christina Pelle. Further details to follow

Blogsite Development

This blog site has been set up as a trial run for students to view newsworthy items and for our external links to see what is happening at the University of Bolton in the area of Textile/Surface Design.

Students are also developing their own blogspots which we will provide links to - they are undertaking this as part of Professional Practice and to support their final major project. We will also review gallery and exhibitions visits, websites and links which are relevant to personal research as well as posting interesting notes and articles, and most importantly images of work in progress etc.

What do you think????

Bolton One Project

The shortlist is being drawn up for the student design projects in relation to the Bolton One new health, leisure and research centre which is due for completion in 2012. Students who are through to the next stage at present include level 2 Emma McVan, Aimee Coffey, Shamin Janvaria, Charlotte Hindley, Michelle Badowski and Suzan Al Sakkaf. The next stage of the project is for students to work towards final presentations the week beginning 4th April , the winning designers will have the opportunity to design tiles for the swimming pool, hydrotherapy pool and changing rooms.

Printsource & Fashion Institute of Technology

NEW YORK visit to the Fashion Institute of Technology ' Japan Fashion Now ' Exhibition - picture Emma McVan, Amy Tomlinson and Aimee Coffey.



The visit in January included the Printsource Exhibition - Printsource is the main resource for surface and textile design for America's major manufacturers, retailers and catalogues, students were able to view designs and artwork from a range of International Design Studios. They also visited the American Folk Museum, Museum of Art & Design at Columbus Circle and the Drawing the Line exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

New York Study Visit

Students enjoyed a visit to Printsource in January - an exciting adventure filled with design inspiration, wonderful visit to Mary Poppins on 42nd Street ( feature picture - Nicola Brown ) , Museum of Art & Design , Fashion Institute of Technology and exciting snow !!

Aim Higher print workshop

Aim Higher Event - students from Bury College enjoyed a day transfer printing using collage techniques - they used a combination of some student created artwork and photographic imagery

Students from the Textile/Surface Design programme have been busy creating design ideas and concept boards for entry into the Bradford Textile Society Awards , we wish them all the best !!! The entries this year are as promising as other years ! well done to all our students entering.

Featured - detail Cara Street