Hi there,I’m Kirsty. ONE/FOUR

Kirsty HardinghamOUGD303/ FMP

Year BookThe Brief

To design the 2013 Surface Pattern and Printed Textiles year book. The final outcome will be a PDF. Working as part of a collaboration with Kirsty Alderson, Claudia Griffin and Sophie Wilson.

The Concept

The concept is based on a quote by an Artist called Dan Eldon, ‘The Journey is the Destination’. The idea came from something Duncan said about the course being a journey and I have a tattoo which says this quote. So me and Claudia thought about how the studio is the journey and the destination is the portfolio of awards that the course has won.

The Design

The concept behind the design of the front and back cover is based on coloured squares. I wanted to create some kind of pattern and we thought about having 64 coloured squares. 62 of the squares represent the students, 1 for the textiles team and 1 for the year book team. We wanted to keep the colours quite neutral so that it would appeal to both a male and female audience.

BA (HONS) PRINTED TEXTILES AND SURFACE PATTERN

THE JOURNEY

LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART

2010 - 13

Stephanie-Rose Turner

Elisha Debbage Jessica Sammon

Lucy AndersonCharlotte Mason

Lauren Burke

Grizelda Kitching

Heidi Spinks Kim Dawkins

Ealish Walmsley-JonesBryony Atkinson

Katie Fitzpatrick

Hannah Locker

Emily Atherton Jessica Browning

Lucy Palmer

Stephanie Rostron

Roisin Johns Felicity Clark

Isobel Walton

Selling globally, across countries as diverse as Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Germany, France, Italy and the U.S. amongst others, every year we go to one of the world’s premier trade fairs for textile design, fashion fabrics and trends, Indigo. We identify forthcoming season’s key trends, colours and looks and then interpret these within our design responses to produce exciting, styled and fresh solutions for the fashion and accessories market

fashion houses and textile organisations. Companies we have recently sold to include Lacroix, Louis Vuitton, Custo Barcelona, Heritory, Alexander Henry Fabrics and Desigual amongst others.

Our annual ‘Worthless & Priceless’ exhibition celebrates values of sustainability, ecology, up-cycling, deconstruction and re-invention. It’s about exploring our immediate world to identify artefacts that are intrinsically deemed ‘worthless’ and through manipulation, engineering and practical workshops we like to resurrect these found objects, like a phoenix from the ashes, to produce innovative solutions and products that can be heralded as ‘priceless’, something to cherish and treasure.

Similarly, our participation annually at Artists book fairs offers us the chance to work with ‘slow crafting’

to produce items and ideas that champion ‘hand over machine’. Whilst we work extremely hard here, now and again we like to slow things down a touch, to engage with respect and appreciation for the process, tradition and quality of craft.This philosophy and celebration of quality, beauty and excellence over the aversion of the mundane permeates then throughout the rest of the programme.

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Hi there,I’m Kirsty. TWO/FOUR

Kirsty HardinghamOUGD303/ FMP

Year BookThe layout of the pages have been set to a grid which was created by Claudia, she has placed all of the body copy in the year book, whilst Kirsty A edited and placed the images of the students work. We had help from Jessie Leong, a second year photography student, to take the photos while us 4 organised everyone and hung the work.

One of the biggest tasks was organising a photoshoot of 62 students work in one day, which we all contributed to.

THE JOURNEYIS THE DESTINATION

Hi there,I’m Kirsty. THREE/FOUR

Kirsty HardinghamOUGD303/ FMP

Year BookAs part of my own extension of the brief, I have been designing proposed banners for the end of year show. I have been using the design of the front and back cover to inspire my designs as these were the original things I did as part of the collaboration.

The 2 part banner on the left would be quite big and would hang close to one another. This could potentially hang in the Surface Pattern studio as you walk in, as they have high ceilings. The idea behind it was to visually communicate the importance of both the journey and the destination and how they both balance one another out. That is why the quote is spread across the 2 banners but is split down the middle.

The design on the right is a hanging promotional design. There would be several of these around the studio to ensure every student was showcased. The individual squares would have images of students work on and then the coloured squares would have a quote from the student on them telling of their experiences on the course.

Hi there,I’m Kirsty. FOUR/FOUR

Kirsty HardinghamOUGD303/ FMP

Year BookI have also proposed invites for the end of year show, again using the design of the front cover as a concept. The invites are very simple, they use the type layout from the front cover and the same format as the year book. The invites would come in a white envelope and the type on the front would be embossed, using a thick textured stock.

THE JOURNEYBA (HONS) PRINTED TEXTILES AND SURFACE PATTERN DESTINATION

IS THEYOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE SURFACE PATTERN AND PRINTED TEXTILES

END OF YEAR SHOW

JUNE 14TH 6:00PM TILL 9:00PM

DESTINATIONIS THEYOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE SURFACE PATTERN AND PRINTED TEXTILES

END OF YEAR SHOW

JUNE 14TH 6:00PM TILL 9:00PM