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!