About me
I am a recent graduate from Birmingham City University with a BA (Hons) in Embroidered Textiles. Having gained dynamic experience in the interiors and trend forecasting industries, I have developed a strong curiosity for interior trend and colour forecasting, with a growing interest for interior styling.
I thrive when working hands on with materials and love exploring the use of both colour and materials to create innovative designs and surfaces for a number of applications. I have a passion for photography in which I engage with natural form and use this to inspire my work.
I flourish when working within a large, fast paced design team and am extremely enthusiastic and motivated about what I do.
Projects
- Synthetic Ocean“By 2050 it is expected that there will be more plastic in our oceans by weight than fish.” In the present day it becomes increasingly worrying at the amount of plastic found in our oceans. With recycling and reusing plastic not occurring as frequently as it should, more and more plastic ends up making its way out to our oceans. The transformation of plastic bottles, bags, netting and straws, through heat and embroidery processes, explores how they can be turned into highly textural surfaces in response to the trend, that suggest visions of the deepest oceans and how coral reefs are being mutated by plastic, to advocate what is being affected by pollution and the extent of it. The final material surfaces express the dynamic and vivid nature of unharmed corals, as well as showing the brutality of what ocean pollution can cause to these fragile ecosystems that lie beneath the waves, such as coral bleaching, entanglement, trapping and in severe cases suffocation. Colour and materiality will also be explored and discovered through photography, in the form of a photo book and supporting photos. Reusing and repurposing materials is currently a huge trend across many industries to help to reduce waste, so this project would appeal to the trend industry, but the collection may also have applications in other industries such as interior design, visual merchandising and jewellery. The main inspirations of the project came from my childhood, where walks along beaches looking for hidden treasures and snorkelling abroad allowed me to see and connect with the world that lives underwater, which I instantly fell in love with. ��/
Work history
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Client RepresentativeMaterial Lab
- Birmingham, United KingdomInternship
- Communicated with visitors and industry experts about the properties of 15 different materials being showcased.
- Explained and proposed uses for each materials to clients and applied them to how they could work for different industries.
- Confidently approached visitors to help them with what they required.
- Supervised the stand and prepared it for talks and presentations.
Trend ForecasterTrend Bible
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomInternship
- Worked in a fast-paced design studio environment.
- Assisted with a home interiors trend styling shoot.
- Created presentation slides for a client consultancy presentation.
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Skills
- Digital Embroidery
- Screen Printing
- Colour
- Future Trends
- Abstract Photography
- Enthusiasm
- Motivated
- Concept Building
- Time Management
- Materials
Education
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BA (Hons) Textile Design Birmingham City University
- Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Practical based, creative course providing a broad range of specialist textile skills.
- Industry specific briefs that include market and client awareness with commercial considerations.
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A-LevelsMeadowhead School and Language College
- Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Art Textile Design | A*
- English Language | B
- Business Studies | C
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Awards
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IKEA Innovation of the YearBirmingham City University
- This award was given to me as part of a live trend project in conjunction with IKEA and Colour Hive, where we put together a show in the Birmingham IKEA store. I won the ward for a sample I created around an up and coming trend provided by Colour Hive, which IKEA saw potential in for some of their products.B
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Louisa Anne Ryland Travel ScholarshipBirmingham City University
- This award was given to me after I was nominated for a travel scholarship, where I had to present to a panel my chosen destination and why it is important that I get to go there. I was awarded some money to help towards getting to the MoOd/Indigo trade show in Brussels, Belgium, which is a specialist trend and materials event.