This is my product visualisation board for my hand painted wallpaper.

I have entered it into a competition and I would appreciate it if you could please vote and if I win I will be jetting off to Miami!

Please re blog and re tweet with this link of the voting gallery!!

Thank You!!!

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I have uploaded a product board (see picture below ) of my wallpaper design in situ, to an interior design competition.

Please vote for my hand painted pink floral wallpaper in this design competition.

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Have a look on our degree show blog to see whats happening and what you can expect from Cleveland College of art & Design's end of year graduate show!! 7th-17th June!

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These are all my self promotion material.

I have made special one off print of cards, envelopes, gift tags, business cards, post cards, stickers, letter heads and compliment slips.

These have taken a great deal of time and effort so I have not been working on my final major project as much as I probably should have been. However I am very pleased with what I have made and I feel I am near finishing my self promotion and personal development box file.

Final major project is not going quite as well as I would have hoped however I am working hard I feel I am not getting the results i want at the moment. I am aiming to get some designs finished and painted ready for New York in Easter. That means i only have until March 30th to do this as that is when easter starts and college will be closed! I feel I am on the right track I just need to push myself further and harder.

We had 2 past students in this morning talking about what they have been upto and how they are getting on since graduating. This was a very scary thought that this time last year they were sat where I was today, listening to amazing stories of how this course has made their life!

However I didnt really relate to them as I know my profession is in teaching, I love design and print howveer I dont feel I am the right person for industy; however maybe freelance work I could be interested in as they spoke a little about that.

Anyway; watch this space for some amazing image filled designs!!

This is my first design layout. I chose to do it on a large scale repeat - 53cm x 53cm, as I like large imagery and I feel it would be a statmenet wallpaper rather than a paper that you could put on all walls in a room.

I drew it out on A0 tracing paper so I could see what the repeat pattern would be like as A1 is not large enough. I then drew part of it out in my sketchbook ready to develop some colour ways and define which media I will use to paint it. I will update my development stages so you can see my full process.

NYC here I come!

Booked up to go to New York for a few days!! i have never been before and think it is going to be amazing!!

I am going to exhibit some of my wallpaper designs and bedding boards from my minor project and hope they get me noticed!!

By the time the show comes I will have some final wallpapers either painted/printed samples or lengths, I would also love to take these!!

I feel I have something to aim for and I really am out to impress!!

Printsource is the main resource for surface and textile design for America's major manufacturers, retailers and catalogs, covering such industries as men's, children's and women's apparel, bed and bath, kitchen and tabletop, paper goods and stationery, wallcoverings, window fashions and other surface and textile design applications.

Printsource New York, The Premier Market for Surface and Textile Design in the USA, holds three shows a year in New York City. As the hub for the world’s top creative talent, Printsource showcases hundreds of collections by international surface and textile design studios and agents. England, France, Italy, Spain, Australia and the U.S.A. are just some of the countries featured each season at the Show, which is the main resource for surface and textile design for America's major manufacturers, retailers and catalogs. The Show covers such industries as men's, children's and women's apparel, bed and bath, kitchen and tabletop, paper goods and stationery, wallcoverings, window fashions as well as other surface and textile design applications. (Text taken from http://www.printsourcenewyork.com/index.html)

I had a day working from home today! I have a to do checklist with not many ticks on! So thought I would try and tick thing off!

These are some compliment slips I have made, these will add to my professionality and my branding. I intend to do letter heads to match.

Again I have been testing my Photoshop skills and I'm getting more confident and finding out new tricks and effects all the time. They have taken me a while, however this is mostly down to finding my way around photoshop!

Hope you like!