Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Today I wanted to share with you a selection of images from my inspiring trip to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. I met up with a creative friend & we had such a lovely relaxing day out. Words can't describe how amazing this place is. To find beautiful art & sculptures dotted around & weaved in between picturesque scenery is just unbelievable. I only had the morning free so we only covered a small fraction of the outdoor park (it's a huge place!). I hope to visit again soon to see more of the captivating views.

The park & galleries are actually FREE! It really is a hidden gem.

Love Rachael x

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V&A Exhibition: Hollywood Costume

Running from the 20th October to 27th January is the exciting & unique 'Hollywood Costume' exhibition as the V&A Museum!

'Clothes are never a frivolity, they always mean something'.

- James Laver (1899 - 1975), the first Keeper of the V&A Theatre Collections.

'What's great about costume is it's the visual representation of the internal side of people. That's what I love.' 
- Film Director, Tim Burton

'If you (the costume designer) can make the audience feel the actress is the character, then it's a good job of costuming'.
- Costume Designer, Edith Head (1897 - 1981)

The exhibition will include over 100 of the most iconic character costumers from a century of Hollywood films. There will be 3 galleries to explore including costumes from 'The Wizard of Oz', 'Titanic', 'Indian Jone', 'Pirates of The Caribbean' & 'Avatar'. The exhibition will go in depth into the making & designing of costumes for Hollywood & designing a character 'from script to screen'. Most costumes have never even been displayed before! 

To find out more information about the exhibition, visit the V&A website.

Enjoy! Kelly :)

University of Leeds Design Graduate Exhibition 2012 - Reveal

Happy Friday everyone!

This coming Monday; June the 18th, the University of Leeds Design Graduate Exhibition 2012: Reveal is running until June the 22nd! The exhibition showcases work from all design courses including: Art and Design Colour and Technology; Design and Technology Management, Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Communication Design and Textile Design.

In line with the theme of 'Reveal', the Graphic Design department have set up a live 24 hour webcam feed, and the countdown to the exhibition has revealed odd objects!

You can find out more information by going on the Reveal 2012 website or by going on the Facebook page or following on Twitter. Kelly :)

I will also be exhibiting! Come see my boards and say hello in the Textile Room right next to the doors of the 'Grass Studio' (Graphic Design)! You can follow me on twitter: @KCTextile Design or on my Facebook!

Progressive Greetings

Some exciting things happening today! I am attending the fourth Progressive Greetings Live show with over 285 exhibitors, including my lovely & talented friend Libby McMullin! Find libby in stand 700 in the springboard hall. The show takes place at the wonderful Business Design Centre in Islington, London & will be open for just two days. Click here to see the exhibition preview! I will be doing a follow up post on all the exciting happenings at the exhibition, keep checking back for more!

I will also be meeting up with some of my wonderful 'The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design' (the c-course) students!

Below are selected images of Libby's beautiful work. Go Libby! You can also read a previous post from this blog on the lovely Libby here.

Design Icons - Post War British Textiles

I recently went on  a very inspiring trip to London & visited the Fashion and Textile Museum. There is a fantastic exhibition at the moment called Designing Women Post-War British Textiles. I was amazed & slightly overwhelmed by it... My all time favourite designer Lucienne Day played a huge part in the exhibition, it was such a privilege to see her wonderful work!

The museum actually allowed me to take photographs too! I'd highly recommend visiting the exhibition.

Surface Pattern Sneak Peek!

Today I thought I'd give you a sneak peek of my design work which will be exhibited at printsource in New york this August. There are lots of designs unfortunately I can't show you them all (for copyright reasons)

Here's a little taster though...