Class of 2011

So after three amazing (and amazingly emotional) years at the University of the West of England, I have finally graduated with First Class Honours in BA(Hons) Graphic Design. The Graduation ceremony and the weekend of celebrations that followed was super good. Thank you to all my friends and family for supporting me through my degree and I wish the best of luck to all my fellow graduates who made University the amazing experience that it was. Here's to the end of another era! 

UWE Graduate Fashion Show

As the main part of their end of year show, the Fashion Design and Fashion Textiles students put on a fashion show to display their collections. I was asked by my friend Harri Mead to help out with modelling and not only got to model her amazing collection but also four other equally good collections. I was more than impressed with the originality and innovation of the collections and the quality of the garments themselves. Some serious hours must have gone into the design and production of the collections, not to mention the planning of the fashion show itself. It was an amazing event to be part of, witnessing the rollercoastering emotions of the fashion students through the drama of four shows spread over two days. The highlight was definitely watching the students reactions as their tutors named the ten lucky designers that had been selected to take their collections down to Graduate Fashion Week in London. Needless to say Harri was one of the talented designers picked...an opportunity well deserved!

UWE Degree Show 2011

So I finally managed to unpack my things after moving home over a month ago aaaand...oh hello camera lead! I can now begin to fill in the gaps of all the things that have happened since our final uni deadline. Firstly, was the degree show. I was more than impressed with the work of my friends and fellow students, not just on the Graphic Design course but throughout the campus. We did a show and we showed it good. The atmosphere of the opening night was amazing and it was lovely to be able to finally show my family what I had been working so hard on for months! Here are some pictures of the Graphic Design show...well done guys and girls! 

It's Been Too Long...Again.

So here I am apologising for my blogging rubbishness once again...except this time my reason is more than valid. I have had a busy couple of months which has all just blurred into one big emotional roller coaster ride. It all began with the final deadline for my Self Directed Study...followed with excess celebrations of freedom of course. The week after I modelled for a friend in the UWE Graduate Fashion Show, then my work was displayed for a week at the UWE Degree Show, I attended the ISTD Awards ceremony in London and packed up three years of my life in Bristol and moved back to sunny Sussex! Finally, and perhaps most importantly, today I received my final degree classification.  I am now more than happy to say that I passed my degree with First Class Honours! 

I will post up the pictures of the above events and of my final work that was displayed in the degree show...just as soon as I find the lead for my camera in one of those neatly packed boxes...hmmm.

Birthday Boy

It's all systems go with Uni work at the moment, with just 11 days until the FINAL DEADLINE! But last week was Jack's birthday and cakes are his favourite thing so I couldn't not bake for him! Despite turning 24, Jack is possibly the biggest Toy Story fan (and biggest kid) going. I found these little cuties on a blog (which I will post when I come across again as it was pretty amazing) and just had to try them out! They are vanilla sponge with vanilla butter cream icing and fondant balls for the little eyes. I got a break from the computer screen and Jack satisfied his sweet tooth...smiles all round!

BABE (Bristol Artists Book Event)

This weekend I attended the Bristol Artists Book Event at the Arnolfini. With over 100 local, national and international book artists selling their work over three floors it was definitely worth a visit. I collected lots of  business cards and other nice things. My favourite buy was the ornamental letterpress stamps for which I am frantically looking for a excuse to use! We had a chance to talk to many of the artists themselves, about their work and about our own work too. I even managed to stumble across the former chair of ISTD, Jonathan Doney who congratulated me on my acceptance! Jonathan is the founder of The Spitfire Press, and creator of some really amazing print work!

 Alongside the Bristol Artists Book Event was a project called The World Atlas in Bristol. The organizers were giving visitors of the event pieces of paper with place names from around the world and asking them to draw/write what they knew about that particular place. There were some really interesting responses and it was nice to see how people had approached the task differently.

Heather-Anne Kendrick MISTD

I received an exciting e-mail a week or so ago informing me that I had passed the Student Assessment and had been awarded membership of the International Society of Typographic Designers! I was extremely happy with the news and am looking forward to the award ceremony in June! Have a look at the work I submitted here.