Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Why Manchester Met is the right course for me

Manchester and the course that you offer are well established, showing that the course has an excellent reputation and recognises people who aim to succeed.
I see the course at your institution to be a way of expressing myself in a environment that is original and would suit my design flare.  When looking at work from students that have graduated from your course I can easily imagine myself as part of that group, having the talent and experience to go further as a designer.
My personality would allow your institution to mold me into a successful designer knowing that whatever was needed to progress I would do with enthusiasm and dedication. The way I work means I put everything into a design allowing me to create work I’m proud of. I hope your institution sees a potential in my work and me, as I would love to study and develop as part of your course. 

Specialism. Environment project. Final sample boards.





Experimenting with knit, threading different materials through stitches. 

2nd rotation. Bag project. Final sample.





Application of previously developed embroidery styles to a bow, which would be applied to a bag. 

2nd rotation. Bag project. Development sample.







I experimented with the theme lux choosing quirky embellishments. 

2nd rotation. Bag project. Suffolk puffs with embellishment.

I chose to embellish the Suffolk puffs to portray the theme lux. 

Specialism. Garden of Earthly Delights project. Transfer prints using initial drawing.

2 initial responses to drawing work using Transfer prints. 

Specialism. I love Rio project. Initial drawing and development.




Group t-shirt project.  Application of possible motif on t-shirt flat.

Specialism. I love Rio Project. Developing t-shirt designs.


Group t-shirt project. Developing t-shirt designs with research under. 

Specialism. I love Rio project. Developing colour palette.

Group t-shirt project.  Developing colour palette, with t-shirt flat. 


Specialism. Garden of Earthly Delights project. Sketchbook initial drawing.






Initial observational drawing, using different media. 

Specialism. I love Rio project. Development and final design.


Group t-shirt project. Developing surface designs. Digital fabric printing. 

1st rotation. Journey project. Final piece.


Surface designs using mono prints and watercolours. 

1st rotation. Journey project. Motif development.

 Observational drawing developed into motif using different media.