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COMPETITIONS

          This page provides a selection of my textile design entries for international fashion print competitions. I began to enter competitions in 2013 to allow myself to be more experimental and artistic than my everyday commercial print design assignments. There are 3 winning designs (pictured below) for the Front Row Society. Front Row Society was a prestigious fashion print company based in Berlin that sold clothing and fashion accessories in many leading department stores across Europe and also online. They usually selected 15-25 winners from approximately 400 international entries for each competition. In addition to winning a cash prize and having the winning designs commercially produced as silk scarves or leggings, the competitions gave the entrant the opportunity to meet lots of other international designers and share ideas, technical advice, interpretation of the briefs, and encouragement.

The first image (directly below this text) is my scarf design called Carousel, which I based on photographs of a photographic slide projector. The second image shows 2 photos of the design printed as a cashmere scarf. It was printed and produced by the Front Row Society. I did not realize it was such a success with their customers until I received my first sales report. It was one of their best-selling designs of the season.

One of the competitions was called "Rorschach" which required entrants to create a design using the technique of splashing ink onto paper and then folding the paper and pressing the halves together to create a mirrored image. I made several attempts at the technique and one of my finished ink papers resembled a creature, which is part mouse, part bear. I scanned the print into my laptop and created a repeat pattern using multiple copies of the creature in different sizes. You can see the image below; it is black, white, grey, and peach-coloured. The Rorschach test was a psychological test used in the 1960s, which was created by Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach in 1921. It helps some psychologists to establish a person's emotions and personality characteristics. It is widely used in the US and Japan but in the UK psychologists rarely use it as they are skeptical of its validity. Despite its debatable effectiveness, it's a great technique for creating unique unpredictable artwork!

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