Week 1 (PS Lvl 5) A change of scene...

After recently graduating from Newcastle college with my foundation degree, I have now directly entered level 5 of the BA (Hons) Textiles and Surface Design course at Cleveland College of Art and Design. I am really looking forward to getting back to work after a long summer off, and studying at my new college, so I will hopefully try and keep this blog up to date with my current work and inspirations!

As part of my course, I am now studying a Professional studies module. It is based on potential careers I could go into in the future, once I have graduated. I have to say, it sounds like it's going to be very useful and interesting, as I'm really keen to find out as much as I can about my options. I think it is going to encourage me to make contacts with other professionals, which will be really useful for potential employment, and also allow me to collect info on there job roles and the entry requirements/experience I will need to get where I want to be in the future. I'm really excited about getting a better insight into the industry. You might see a few updates here on my research during the module!

Subterranean

I have just went back to college for the final year of my foundation degree and after a long summer off I'm looking forward to getting back to work. The first brief of the year is 'Skills for Making' and we have to use the skills we have learnt over the past year, and start to work in the direction we want to go in. I have to choose one of three trends from 'Subterranean', 'Geometric' and 'Folklore', and research and develop my theme to finally produce a collection of garment fronts. I really enjoyed making my garment front last year so I really excited about doing this module. Out of the three trends, the Subterranean trend appealed to me the most. I thought it would be very interesting to research and keep me interested throughout the module so I'm very excited to get started.