Designer/maker placements

Continuing with the theme of work experience, two knit students spent time with designers at Cockpit Arts in London.
Frankie Horsfield a final year knit student worked with knitwear designer Carlo Volpi http://carlovolpi.co.uk, working on a concept garment which will be exhibited in Italy in conjunction with Italian Vogue.
This was a very hands on role, knitting structured panels and working on garment construction.

Lucy Minty who is just about to start her second year as a knitted textile student, worked with Zoe Miller assisting with accessory production for Autumn/Winter 2016.

Work Experience

 During the summer many of our students undertake work experience. Isabelle Jolliffe who will be starting her final year in September has been to Timorous Beasties for a great placement. Read her full interview with The Bucks Graduate http://thebucksgraduate.com/2016/08/23/isabelle-jolliffe/

Graduates help out at Material Lab

Over the summer 2 of our Surface Design Graduates have been helping out at London based material resource studio Material Lab. They've been drafted in to specifically assist with the launch of Colour Futures 17 - the amazing colour trend forecast that Dulux put together every year (and that our current students will be working with in a live project later in the year.)

The colours for the year to come are currently under lock and key so we can say no more, however they will be revealed at the CF17 show which will take place at 33 Fitzroy Square between Sept 6-8th 2016...keep your eyes peeled for more in the coming weeks!

Surface & Materials Show

As well as planning the academic year ahead I've also been working on an exciting industry project over the summer. I am heading up the design and curation of the Material Lab hub at this years Surface and Materials Show which will take place in NEC, Birmingham between 18-20th October.

The 125m2 space will be home to the staged seminar area, a live making space as well as an exhibition of some the leading surface materials around. Keep your eyes peeled for the fully revealed line-up in the coming weeks...

Designs off to Mood Brussels

The work of Phoebe Edwards and Georgia Cleeves has been selected to be exhibited as part of the innovation platform at Mood Brussels. http://www.moodbrussels.com/en @trendeaseintl
Sept 6- 8th. A trade show for materials, innovation, windows, wallpaper and moodyarns.

http://phoebeprim.tumblr.com

                                            http://georgiacleevesknitdesign.tumblr.com

Eastpak Wildcard Competition.

Current student Zeba Safdar is one of three finalists for the Eastpak Wildcard Competition. So we lookfoward to finding out how she gets on!

Eastpak Artist Studio is a joint initiative of the lifestyle brand Eastpak® and the charity organization Designers Against AIDS. Each year, a selection of the world’s most inspired designers are invited to apply their creative vision to transform for free a blank Eastpak® backpack into a unique work of art. All creations are subsequently auctioned off for charity. 

Zeba Safdar http://www.artsthread.com/profile/zebasafdar1/#next

Hand and Lock Prize for Embroidery Finalist.

Lottie Grierson has been selected by Hand and Lock as one of this years Embroidery finalists.
Her specialism is knitted textiles with a keen interest in embellishment techniques. All the finalists now have two months to develop their proposed idea for the final judging.
http://www.handembroidery.com/hand-lock/

Sustainable Thinkers Top 10 UK Graduates

Following on from success at the Creative Conscience Awards. Polly Redfern has been selected as one of 10 top Graduates by WGSN as a 'Sustainable Thinker'.

Publicity for our soon to be Graduates 2016

Georgia Cleeves and Anni Tavener have both been spotted by interior style blog designsoda.co.uk
http://designsoda.co.uk/designers-shows-2016/#more-8597 follow the link for the full feature.

Anni Tavener

....and it still keeps coming

More appreciation of our final year students form industry professionals.

Bucks Alumni

Great to see recent Bucks graduate Marcia La Madrid at New Designers 'One Year On' with a new collection and small design business 'Suri and Sage'. It looked very professional! 

New Designers Round Up!

It's been a really great week at the Business Design Centre. Great responses for all the work and how the stand looked. We've had nominations, wins, interviews, and plenty of interesting new contacts and offers to chase up. Well done to all of our 2016 graduates!

Texprint Success!

Printer Emma Kendall has been selected by Texprint this year! Next stop the Texprint exhibition in London in a few days and then preparations for Premiere Vision Paris in September. Its going to be a busy few months ahead.

A very well deserved silver award

2016 (soon to be) Graduate Polly Redfern has been awarded Silver in the Creative Conscience Awards.
This was announced yesterday at the awards ceremony in London. To see her project and those of other winners please follow the link.
https://www.creative-conscience.org.uk/winners/polly-redfern/

Here is Polly on the stand at New Designers looking very pleased!

New Designers Awards preview day.

A few of the nominations for Bucks students from todays awards preview day.

 Molly Hutchinson. by @notonthehighst today! #ND16 #NewDesigners

Amy Blackwell.  @notonthehighst today @NewDesigners #ND16

Georgia Cleeves has received some praise from @johnlewisretail @NewDesigners today!

New Designers 2016

New Designers Day 1. #ND16 https://twitter.com/buckstextiles

The big build.

Degree show 2016

It's been a great week at the Bucks degree show @bucksshow16.
Now just over a week until New Designers part 1!

Lottie Grierson and Erin Parfitt

 Izzy Webb

Show set up. The finishing touches......

Finalist in the 2016 Creative Conscience Awards

3rd year Surface Design student Polly Redfern is a finalist in this years Creative Conscience Awards.https://www.creative-conscience.org.uk

Polly's project asks the question; 'How can maize farmers help to build a community through finding value in agricultural waste?

By repurposing waste materials generated during the production of maize, this project is engaged in creating new functional materials. It aims to eliminate damaging agricultural activities yet simultaneously provides an extra income for farmers and developing communities worldwide. 

British Fashion Council Burberry Competition

Congratulations to Monisha Hussain who was shortlisted for this years BFC Burberry Competition.

Resource Zone Visit

Our first year students made a visit to our local resource zone.

lots of varied materials to use in project work. Mainly off cuts and left overs from industry, all sorts of materials from plastics, foams, papers and fabrics.

More of our 3rd year design work.

http://www.artsthread.com/profile/romaarora/

http://www.artsthread.com/profile/phoebeedwards/#next

http://www.artsthread.com/profile/laurenmansfield/

Art and Design Show 2016

Our degree show runs from 11th - 16th June. A wide variety of design disciplines will be on show. Please visit Textiles and Surface Design in the Red Shed.

http://bucks.ac.uk/contactus/events/Bucksshow16/

Jane Bowler Live project

Students from 2nd yr surface design presented their project work to fashion designer Jane Bowler last week. Alex Wiley was lucky to be offered a work placement with Jane after she was especially impressed by his designs.