Texprint prize winners 2009

A whole host of deserving young designers received recognition as recipients of Texprint First View prizes in July. All the six prize winners are featured on ColourClick, with a full profile available of the Colour Prize winner to follow. Here we are happy to be able share their amazing designs, to delight and inspire!

COLOUR PRIZE: Lisa Stannard : : Profile
Degree: BA Textile Design
Manchester Metropolitan University School of Art

'“People, Places and Things” provide the source for original illustrations which inspire a sophisticated range of digital print designs'

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BREAKING NEW GROUND: Nicola Strathearn
Degree: MA Mixed Media Textiles Royal College of Art

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'Organic growths such as lichen and fungi inspire curious combinations of materials creating innovative and intriguing manipulated fabric designs'

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INTERIOR FASHION: Nancy Taplin

Degree: BA Fashion and Textiles Colchester School of Art & Design

'Embellished print designs informed by narratives drawn from an eclectic personal collection of cultural and historical emblems'

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KNIT: Hollie Maloney

Degree: BA Fashion & Textiles

University of Brighton

'Knitwear design collection inspired by the eco-architecture and the accidental colour within the photography of structure'

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PRINT PRIZE: Ruth Davis

Degree: BA Fashion Design

University of Northumbria

'“Tin Can Alley” celebrates the quintessentially British charm of Scarborough and its market vaults in a collection of screen-printed designs'

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WEAVE: Martha Steadman

Degree: BA Textile Design

Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design

'Traditional associations in the Welsh valleys. Double cloth “carthen” weaving influences a contemporary and personal woven design collection'

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The SDC is pleased to have supported the First View Exhibition for another year, and pleased also to have had a chance to meet all the 24 students who exhibited in London. Pictured below is the SDC chief executive Susie Hargreaves with the Interior Fashion prize winner Nancy Taplin, who was also the runner up in our very own global design competition this year (read more here).

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Good luck to all the prize winners when they exhibit their designs at Indigo (in Paris) in September and at Interstoff Asia (in Hong Kong) in October!

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by CMcN