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Degree Show | Done & Dusted

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The University of Derby Degree Show is up and ready for the public to visit and a great opportunity for us all to make connections.
The Private Viewing was an incredible experience, but one I would love to do again a little more relaxed. It was busy and quite nerve-racking with people being sincerely nice about my work and what I have achieved, It is so strange to think that after visiting the Degree Show for the last two years it was finally mine turn. These last three years have gone so quickly and I would rush back to do them again, but exciting times ahead with placement and freelancing mean I have to leave it behind and see what else there is for me.

I massive thank you to everyone that got me through these last thee years and these hard few months of designing, printing and building the show.

The show is up until the 13th June so please go and see everyones work and support us all!

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Degree Show Wait

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It is finally up! After a week of building, painting, measuring, planning and worrying my degree show is all set up and ready for hand in tomorrow. It's so scary to think that three years have come to an end so quickly and been such a roller coaster ride of emotions. It has been three years of stress, happiness and tears with some amazing people coming to my side and being a great friend.

The future right now is very scary and very open to a lot of opportunities that could come my way due to freelancing and placements. Its important to keep going with designing and building up a portfolio and a sense of style for myself in my spare time.

I wanted to keep my show very simple with an emphasis on minimalist that I saw in shops like Jigsaw, Reiss and Karen Millen. These stores really inspire me and their prints are always very eye catching and feminine. The gorgeous illustrations were done with the help of my friend Chris (check out his blog) and the two books are a garment look book and a sample print catalogue to show to potential employees what I can do. I also have my business cards and some cute little flowers.

The main piece of fabric on the right is the biggest sample I printed and one of my favourites so I wanted to make that a feature with another print using the same drawing next to it. I have 10 samples on the rail, all featuring different drawings and elements that blend well together but show different skills of repeats like mirror, straight, one-off and placement.

It is all becoming more real now and slowly I think I will be happier with the work once the stress goes and the degree show opens to the public on Friday.

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Degree Show | One Week To Go

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With just ONE WEEK to go until the degree show it is getting pretty scary and very stressful. Building my space has taken all week with many challenges but, after countless takes of putting up and taking down, it is finally ready. All shelves, rails, frames, catalogues and prints have been delivered and sorted.