nearly the end!

Just a few days (literally) until the end of my degree! Surprisingly not that stressed about not being finished yet, and looking forward to it all coming together hopefully!

Exhibition during Design Festival

Along with some of my class mates I have booked an exhibition space for one week during September's Design Festival. Exhibition will be at Blackall Studios in Shorditch. This will be my first time exhibiting during the design festival so quite exciting!

www.blackallstudios.com

Tea Smith

An amazing tea shop in spitalfileds market; it has a range of tea and tea accesories on sale, and also a tea bar, where you can sit and relax. Downstairs is a gallery for people to exhibit, when I went there was someone who had made teapots.

Fabrications

This is a shop in Hackney that I recently went in for the first time. Has lots of really nice knitting and textile things, ready made items, and knitting needles and wool. 

It also has a recycling service- where you can take unwanted items, and they re make into something you now like.

http://www.fabrications1.co.uk/

Zoe Murphy

Zoe Murphy is a British textile designer who I researched into during my final major project. I really like her combination of drawings and textiles with furniture. 

Below is 'Margate' Drawers - 1950's chest of drawers, re- veneered and printed onto with drawings from Margate seaside.

Donna Wilson

RCA graduate Donna Wilson has resisted the lure of the mainstream fashion and textile industries to carve out a career path as a 3D designer working with 'knit'.

Amid the trademark tasteful charcoal greys and elegant curves of the collection launched by contemporary British furniture brand SCP in Milan last month, one glowing, Technicolor item stood out, rather like an aberrant flash of Benetton in a Cecil Gee suit shop. 

The designer responsible has been quietly making her name in British design circles for the past four years, despite having a slightly unconventional pedigree. Donna Wilson is a textile designer, but one who eschews the pull towards the textile or fashion industry that...

Matali Crasset

French Designer Matali Crasset; she collaborates with eclectic universes, from the handicraft to the electronic music, from the scenography to the furniture, from the graphics to the interior architecture.