Abbie Russell

I am currently studying at my final year of a BA (Hons) Textiles and Surface Design degree. I am a surface designer and my specialist area is gift design, I could spend hours in a shop searching through cards, wraps and tags.
My work is all about colour, I feel colour is my strength. I love using bright and vibrant colours in my work and I feel this is how I define myself and my work. My colour palette tends to include oranges, yellows, blues, greens, purples and reds. I have a quirky drawing style which I feel links in well with the colour schemes which I tend to use and adds a unique touch to my work. As my colour palette is so bright and my drawing has a naïve touch to it they link well as the colours bring out the unusual characteristics of my drawings. Although my drawings may not always represent the item, person or animal I am drawing in a realistic way but I feel this is my take on how they look. As I am nearing the end of my university course I am focusing on developing my style and working very hard to develop my products.

My Final Major Project is all about ‘Crowd’ I have chosen to look at this in a very abstract way meaning I have looked at shapes and objects rather than crowds of people, my colour palette is very bright which links in well with my trend. Although I tend to specialise in gift design for wraps, cards and tags I have decided to do something a bit out of my comfort zone and make a rug! My rug is going to be made with wools and will portray my final design. I am also making cushion designs and packaging to go with my rug to show how it can be used in a room setting.

I have two blogs but use my tumblr one more, they are: http://abbierussell.tumblr.com/
http://abbie-russell.blogspot.co.uk/

I also have a facebook page:www.facebook.com/AbbieRussellTextileDesign

Jade Robson

I am a North East based under graduate studying a BA Hons in Textiles and Surface Design at CCAD. I specialise in surface design for interiors and I am focusing on creating intriguing designs for wallpapers. I am a talented, eager and committed designer. I have innovative ideas, an eye for colour and a strong sense of originality within all my designs. I consider myself to be well organised, professionally presented designer with a fresh talent and a lot of career potential.

 

For my Final Major Project I have come up with a concept which discusses and involves the ever narrowing divide between nature and science. Botany is a discipline of biology which explores the science of plant life; I have always had a keen interest in intricate botanical studies and how they show the process and the parts of a plant not just the outside structure people tend to only see. Botany Creativity explores the idea of function and how a natural form has to fight to operate alone without the help of man and the science forced upon us. I will highlight how our interference and manipulation with nature could destroy the natural workings of our world and create a biologically imbalanced future. Within my work I will display the intelligence of a living plant against the industrial works of today.

 

Visit Jades blog to see more of her work 

 www.jadelrobson.blogspot.co.uk