@libbyallendesign / www.artsthread.com/profile/libbyallen

Libby is a Printed Textile Designer specialising in graphic illustration and screen print. Her creative practice presents strong technical skills in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and a keen eye for detail and layout. She is a versatile designer creating contemporary prints suitable for many different applications. Projects are explored through line drawing, digitally rendered and manipulated before realising using screen print. Precise, digitally drawn patterns are carefully composed and flooded with vibrant, energising colour. Libby is commercially driven with experience in live briefs for H&M and Patternbank as well as placements at Joules and Skinnydip.

Traditional yet trendy prints that aim to inspire and delight. Her graduate collection features striking graphic illustrations, created as a response to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Inspired by stockpiling and media sensationalism, these screen prints aim to lighten the mood and bring a little fun in times of great uncertainty.

@georgiaallman.designs / www.artsthread.com/profile/georgiaallman

Georgia is a Digital Print Designer. Being surrounded by beautiful nature, aspects of historical art, architecture and being informed on current trends keeps her inspired. She loves the process of gathering a full folio of inspiration to create a broader scope on the themes she works on and then begins to draw; this is where her design process begins. She uses all her knowledge and creative skills to build collections of innovative drawings which she transforms using Adobe Photoshop to create high quality digital designs.

‘Traditional Architectural Embellishment’ is a collection inspired by Neoclassical architecture and decorative embellishment. Evoking a traditional style with contrasting tones and a majestic colour scheme with rich cobalt blue and scarlet red, combined with shades of gold to allow a luxurious feel to the designs. The collection also including a range of different colour schemes to appeal to a larger audience. Meticulous drawings, digital arrangements and patterning allow for sophisticated patterns and compositions for luxury printed silk scarves.

@abbiearmettdesigns / www.artsthread.com/profile/abbiearmett

Having spent my whole life in the beautiful Peak District I have grown up with a deep love of nature. I use this as my main inspiration throughout my designs, trying to breathe life into everything I draw and create. I am a digital designer that specialises in producing high quality, digitally drawn imagery for print in interiors and have spent my final year at university perfecting my skills in digital drawing. I am now able to create digital hyper realistic imagery for use in my designs.

My graduate collection is entitled ‘English Country Forest’. This is an immersive and detailed collection aimed towards the high-end interior market. It brings the wonder of the forest into a home using layers of intricately detailed digital drawings and natural textures. This collection was inspired by the beauty of the British woodlands and its animals. ‘English Country Forest’ combines a traditional theme with modern hyper-realistic digital drawings to create pieces that make a statement.

@meganartstrong / www.artsthread.com/portfolios/graduate-portfolio10 / www.linkedin.com

Megan is a Textile Designer and Printmaker with an adoration for narrative pattern design that tells a story without any words. Time and love are invested into every step of her patterning process in order to create considered designs. Megan enjoys fully immersing herself into any creative theme and carrying out extensive research; she believes this is one of the things that makes her work stand out. Sensitivity to context and culture is one of Megan’s top priorities when researching. She invests love into each of her designs in the hope that people will invest back into it and enjoy her work for a long time.

This collection is for a higher-end interior market. It explores a global theme of formal gardens in a culturally sensitive and sophisticated manor. Each garden is paired with a design style typical of its location, to celebrate both the aesthetic beauty and the culture in which it was constructed. Despite spanning the globe and various styles, the collection is linked with a central colour palette. Locations include France, India, Germany, Israel and Japan.

@georgiatextiles / www.artsthread.com/profile/georgiaashworth

Georgia is a Surface Pattern Designer, she uses analogue techniques such as collage, painting and printmaking to explore colour, form and composition through a range of abstracted prints for fashion and homeware markets. Inspiration typically comes from her surroundings, significantly the natural environment and architecture, often combining and simplifying motifs from these environments in her designs. She has a love for Scandinavian design which constantly inspires her work. Working digitally is an important part of Georgia’s process, as it allows her to experiment with handmade elements of her designs in a graphic style.

'Crafted Collage' is a collection of printed textiles designed for the high end womenswear fashion market inspired by Spring/ Summer 2021 trends. The collection explores how natural forms can be translated into abstracted marks and motifs, through painting, drawing and mark making. Prints are manipulated through hand and digital collage techniques, calming monochromatic colour palettes alongside natural fabrics compliment simplified forms within the collection.

@amreacedesign / www.artsthread.com/profile/amreacepaige

Specialising in fashion prints, Amreace is a digitally-focused Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern Designer with a focus on illustrative motifs. When she isn’t using her iPad and Apple Pencil to draw she enjoys getting her hands dirty using oil paints, or combining paints, inks, pastels and markers and working back into pieces to manipulate digitally. Amreace has always been inspired by such a large selection of themes and styles and found it impossible to put her creative self into one particular box. However, during both graduate collections she has specifically found herself drawn to working towards dark, edgy outcomes.

“Modern Mysticism” is a 32-piece collection for a high-end fashion market. It consists of 18 square scarf designs, 4 long scarf designs and 10 complimentary prints in technical repeat, all digitally printed on silk twill and silk organza. Through the use of oil and gouache painting and digital dotwork line drawings, the occultism-inspired collection explores the different oddities often found in “Cabinet of Curiosities”, from taxidermy, skulls of deceased animals, to magical flora and more. Through these means the gloomy collection aims to invoke feelings of wonder and peculiarity.

@drawnbygeorgiab / www.artsthread.com/profile/georgiabarrell

Being a versatile designer is one of the qualities Georgia explores within her practice, fusing both traditional techniques such as drawing, screen-printing and dye knowledge with digital manipulation. Georgia is confident in designing for trend-led themes/concepts, allowing her to become diverse, in process and exploration, to then make final collections for both men and women's fashion print, expanding to interiors, gift design and accessories. Nature is a large part of her inspiration, looking into contrasts of texture and colour in urban environments, florals, as well as natural forms.

‘Futuristic Florals’ is a fashion print collection that explores the relationship between the synthetic and flora, specialising in high street women’s wear. The collection of prints heavily feature a variety of traditional drawing and digital manipulation, exploring a contemporary interpretation of floral print. A bright colour scheme was used, mixed with soft florals to create contrast with nature and the ‘unnatural’, exploring digitally altered texture and space.

Georgia’s second smaller graduate print collection is ‘Glitch Camo’ designed for the men’s high street. The focus of this collection is based on the iconic camouflage print, digitally manipulating urban environmental textures with collaging, to create a range of bright, textural eye catching prints for outerwear.

www.artsthread.com/profile/annabolam

Anna Bolam is an illustrative designer with an interest in narrative driven, symbolic and bold design. Her work is hand drawn, using detailed illustration combined with textural mark making and playful applications of medias. Following hands on processes, these drawings are digitally manipulated on Photoshop and in other digital print methods. Conversational prints for lifestyle, stationary, women’s accessories and homeware follow themes of mental health and feminist ideology. Using historical, social and research-based context her designs come from a personal perspective but with intentions for education and wider engagement. Wishing to go into an educational and therapeutic career, her work encourages this also.

The work shown is from her first collection looking into the visual identity of moths. While butterflies remain an ever-present symbol within textile design, this collection turns to the over-looked moth instead. Versatile in techniques such as hand drawn illustration, papercut collage, painterly lines, bright colours and fresh unique composition. One insect is given the spotlight within a collection of scarves. There is a focus on the patterns, mark making and textures of moths along with the flowers they pollenate. This collection is designed not only with women in mind, but anyone who enjoys a bold twist on a classic.

@xantheprints / xanthebonsall.co.uk/portfolio

Xanthe is a multi-disciplinary designer with a focus on geometric shape and playful colour. Brutalism and Modernist architecture is her main source of inspiration, also incorporating sub-cultural references from a large interest in electronic music, rave culture and working-class identity. With a strong eye for colour and a bold signature style, graphic design meets a hands-on approach combining digitally rendered imagery with traditional hand printing processes within her work, resulting in dynamic prints with a diverse application, in vivid pop colours and clashing patterns with a solid retro aesthetic.

Retro Futurism is the title of her final graduate textile collection, combining elements of past, present and future to create nostalgic prints seen through a digital lens. Retro Futurism takes geometric shape from iconic Modern architecture and combines it with intense hues, neon brights and iridescent dream-like pastels, creating a collection of unisex prints for the sports and streetwear market. Think 80’s influenced graphics, merged with glitched patterns, intense gradients and grainy digital textures.

@mollymoiradesign / www.artsthread.com/portfolios/portfolio150

Having grown up in a countryside town in the Staffordshire moorlands, the influence of nature is the driving force behind the majority of Molly’s design work. Another common theme is the use of narrative and she enjoys the challenge of producing commercial outcomes that align with current trends, even when working with unusual subject matter and dramatic narrative concepts.

A Woodland Moment is a collection of printed textile designs for the high end interior market. The collection sets out to showcase some of the rare and rarely spotted wildlife that can be found in and around Britain’s woodlands, through narrative, scenic repeats for wallpapers and soft furnishings. This hand drawn wildlife sits amongst textural watercolour foliage in fun and playful yet sophisticated designs that aim to capture the whimsical magic of a still moment in the woods.

@alycias_studio / www.artsthread.com/profile/alyciaboyle

Alycia thrives on creating intuitive, dynamic and lively designs through a combination of digital approaches mixed with a breadth of hand-led processes where she is able to explore form, texture and colour in great depth. She is a versatile, multi-disciplinary designer able to adapt her skills to various outcomes and markets. A positive, approachable and contemporary maker with a passion for process-led design suiting her playful style. A raw interest for the natural world is a noticeable theme within Alycia’s practice and apparent within her graduate collection.

Alycia’s enthusiasm for drawing underpins her practice and especially noticeable in her graduate collection, ‘Gestural Landscape’. Minimal repeats compliment enthusiastic prints highlighting the beauty of imperfection within the natural environment; capturing movement and rhythm to evoke optimism. Moment-led expressive marks are partnered with abstract forms creating vibrant visions emphasised by enthusiastic spring hues. Collage, experimental drawing and screen-printing are just some of the skills frequently used to communicate to the senses, particularly touch. Designs have been influenced by unusual shapes, intriguing marks and hidden colours of organic beauty. Compositions are brought together ensuring each pencil drawn line forms a relationship with each brushstroke and each brushstroke interacts with every textural mark.

@chloebradleydesign / www.artsthread.com/portfolios/chloe-bradley

Chloe is a digitally influenced Textile Designer from Chesterfield (near Sheffield). Much of her work is digitally drawn and designed through Procreate, Photoshop or Illustrator. Chloe spends much of my time working on her iPad or laptop and truly loves that she is able to be absorbed in her work no matter where she is; whether that be on a busy rush-hour train, sat on the sofa listening to rain or within an inspiring studio atmosphere. Her work is driven by an overwhelming passion for comforting aesthetic and illustrative style, and she is greatly inspired by the everyday, small pleasures in life.

‘Two for Tea’ is an Afternoon Tea inspired collection consisting of 15 prints intended for kitchen linen. The designs comprise of digitally drawn elements such as pots, mugs and sweets, with backgrounds inspired by classic cream tea floral patterns, picnic checks and traditional stripes all illustratively drawn for a comforting and contemporary twist. Two for Tea was inspired by regular trips to Chloe’s own local café ‘Vintage Tea Rooms’ in Chesterfield and so the collection has a personal connection to Chloe as a designer. The narrative of each design was influenced by the “Book of Afternoon Tea” by Laura Mason which helped with understanding the historical etiquette behind afternoon tea.

@georgiacampbell.textiles / www.artsthread.com/profile/georgiacampbell

Georgia Campbell is a printed textile designer based in Yorkshire, with a love for maximalist aesthetics and contemporary updates. Inspirations surround the natural world and historical references, interpreting ideas from a range of collated photography gathered from research and inspirational visits, often taking influence from interior furnishings, various museum collections, flora and fauna and historical sites. Hand rendered and digital techniques of drawing are manipulated through computer aided design primarily for the fashion market to create commercial outputs.

‘Wondrous Copia’ is a collection of designs for the mid to high-end menswear fashion market. An array of printed textiles explores the abundant collections of 16th century cabinets of curiosities. Within this collection, the beauty of drawing and digital process is embraced. Cabinets of curiosities gave the opportunity to display and admire a wealth of unusual objects such as skeletons, taxidermy, wet specimens and a range of other wondrous objects along with flora and fauna. Within this collection, digital drawing has been developed through line and the use of ombré shading, along with a rich colour pallet with vibrant hues to offset darker tones and evoke a sense of opulence and to capture the elaborate essence of the collection.

@anscoops / www.artsthread.com/profile/annacooper

Anna Cooper is a versatile print designer and trend researcher with a love for curated process lead design that communicates a mood and concept through trend focussed research and tactile colour. Passionate about trend forecasting, her work aligns to current and future trends as well as her own curated predicted trends through research of seasonal directions and socio-cultural impacts on design. Striving to create new innovative ideas and forward thinking print collections, Anna is passionate about a transseasonal approach to design and aims to create fashion with longevity, contributing toward circular fashion.

‘Endangered Flora’ is a romantic womenswear collection inspired by the increasingly important ecological issue of plants facing the world's sixth mass extinction. Highlighting the beauty of nature and prevalence of preserving it, with biophilic natural hues and hopeful brights. Designed alongside Urban Reconnection, a transseasonal menswear collection and trend book that encourages appreciation of nature in response to rapid urbanisation and its contribution to climate change. Bridging our disconnect with nature through sustainable fabrics and natural dyes, while encouraging fluidity between urban and natural spaces through multifunction design and climate-proof materials.

www.artsthread.com/profile/zsazsacooper-williams

 Zsazsa Cooper-Williams is a Leeds based printmaker, illustrator and story-teller.

She can be found in her spare time attentively bird-watching, reading, or jotting down silly rhymes and playful ideas – which will often later inform her print narratives. Much of her work takes inspiration from folklore, historical sites and objects, as well as observations of the natural world and its characters. Tactile printmaking, drawing and painting generate thoughtfully crafted imagery which are often translated into the digital to realise designs. Work varies from feeling comfortingly traditional, to playfully contemporary; often intermingling the two.

‘Bird Verse’ is a collection of lovingly crafted designs inspired by birds in classic British rhyme and verse. Comprised of three capsule collections, which expand from direct narrative responses to rhymes, to a more metaphorical ode to British birds and their surroundings. ‘Golden Gardens’ centres around linocuts exploring birds and their surrounding habitats, linked by the colour yellow. Designs are handcrafted, and digitally rendered to create repeats suitable for wallpapers and home furnishings. ‘Kite Flight’ mixes print elements with paper cut and collage to create a simpler collection. ‘Lear’s Aviary & Polly’s Paradise’ uses hand drawn and painted motifs to create whimsical narrative responses to beloved classic poems.

@jordancowarddesigns / www.artsthread.com/profile/jordancoward

Jordan Coward is a Surface Pattern Designer and Digital Artist. Her creative process is narrative driven and illustrative with a style flexible for a variety of markets. Jordan’s work is lively and often humorous, honest and educational, inspired by current events and the hustle and bustle of city life, as well as the nature that allows a quiet place for creativity to grow. As an artist Jordan finds joy in the small details of her work and she designs with the hope to entertain and make people think outside of the box.

‘Greek Society’ is a celebration of nature and Greek culture displayed through a vibrant cheerful aesthetic, designed for women’s fashion and inspired by WGSN trend mythical motifs, Autumn/Winter 20/21 and the Art Nouveau movement. The collection is split into three unique chapters, each depicting a different aspect of life. Collection two, 'Mystic Night', explores the darker side of Greek mythology following the legends of the gods and the dark complexity fits perfectly as a menswear fashions.

@charlottextiles / www.artsthread.com/profile/charlottedavison

Charlotte Davison is a Surface Pattern Designer whose work typically explores the subjects of flora and fauna, everyday surroundings, “journeys” and landscapes. Starting her projects off with photography seems a vital point, however if an exact copy of the image is not being used, it is instead replicated through different styles of drawing, whether that be for a geometric or textured print. Most of her work ends up being digital based using Photoshop, however she also gains enjoyment from screen printing on both fabric and paper as well as hand dyeing fabrics. Her two graduate collections therefore combine all these skills: “Urban Manmade Landscape” and “Summer Blooms”.

Urban Manmade Landscape is a twenty-piece collection inspired by the everyday outdoors. With a significant interest in steering away from the norm of textures inspired by nature, this collection therefore hones in on the textures and shapes from a man-made world. Through the use of surface rubbings, ink, paper, and digital photography manipulation, the collection aims to suit men’s high-street and high-end fashions.

@elliedaynesdesign / www.artsthread.com/portfolios/portfolio145

Ellie’s practice is influenced by her love for painting and her passion for florals. Although most of her work is based on flowers, she is highly adaptable to briefs, enabling her to produce high quality work suited for various markets and customers. Her work explores expressive and gestural painting later to be turned into digital repeats. Her designs are bold and full of colour, she loves experimenting with a combination of handmade and digital printing processes, in particular screen printing. She loves working with various product groups including interiors and fashion.

Her graduate collection “Blooming Florals” explores summer blooms in a highly expressive and painterly style. Taking inspiration from flowers and their organic textures and marks, painting is key to this collection, therefore keeping the brush stroke textures is important when creating digital and final designs. Vibrant, bright colours and bold marks are combined to create big prints perfect for the summer season. Her collection is suited to a variety of product groups, creating a sense of lifestyle through interiors, fashion, stationary and packaging.

@alannah.dolan.design / www.artsthread.com/portfolios/2020-graduate-collection

Alannah is an aspiring Surface Pattern Designer, specialising in creating detailed hand drawn imagery that sparks a lively, joyful feeling whilst also introducing a range of textures and detail. Working digitally to explore form, colour and composition in great depth and experiment with a huge array of ideas until the perfect outcome has been reached. She is a versatile designer and has a passion for all things trend and research, as she is able to use her keen eye to adapt to the appropriate markets and design styles. While finding success in her digital designs, her multi-disciplinary skillset has been used throughout her degree at university. She is an avid screen printer and sewer and finds these mediums an effective way of adding an element of hand craft into designs. Overall, a confident, positive designer and this resonates within her experimental, expressive prints and patterns.

‘Bright, Bold and Breezy’ is a graduate collection of digitally rendered fashion fabrics inspired by the botanical gardens of Belfast and Sheffield. Using elements taken from 1950’s print design, this collection showcases the essence of summer through vivid and colourfully crafted florals. Enticing botanical prints go hand in hand with minimal repeats to create a wearable collection that induces positivity and a lightness throughout. Created through digital and hand drawn design techniques this collection shows what can be done when the forever recurring trend of the ‘floral’ is brought into 2020.

@kyledowniedesign / www.artsthread.com/portfolios/graduate-portfolio11

Kyle has a great love for drawing whether that be observational, geometric, illustrative or perspective. He has a strong connection to the drawing techniques that he incorporates into his practice and that is what encourages his work to stand out from other designers. While studying at university he has acquired new skills which have allowed him to develop knowledge on design and create new possibilities. The use of computer-aided-design has elevated his skills as a designer and these skills have shaped the aesthetic that his work carries today. The perfect word to sum up his practice is chic. At heart, he is a strong creative with an attraction to stylish, fashionable, sophisticated designs using the most relevant and on trend colour schemes and inspiration. As a contemporary designer he has the capability to evoke a specific mood or a meaning with his designs in response to current socio-economic factors.

Naked Panorama is about letting consumers create their own escape; creating a calm and relaxing atmosphere within an interior space in response to the devastating global affairs such as the Australian wild fires, the Amazon Rainforest diminishing, and the plastic pollution destroying our oceans. By incorporating elements of the natural environment (textures, imagery, and colour) this collection brings a 2D Biophilic Design concept within an interior space. Essentially bringing the outside in and making maximum impact with minimal design.

@jojoprintdesign / www.artsthread.com/profile/joannadunne / jojoprintdesign.myportfolio.com

Joanna Dunne is a Surface Pattern Designer who creates fun and colourful designs inspired by the everyday joys in life. Her designs are digitally illustrated on Photoshop using distinctive brushes, light textures and overlays add a hand-made touch to her work and produces timeless designs with a contemporary twist. The versatile and commercial nature of her designs means they often suit a variety of markets, such as homeware, stationery and fashion.

‘Wild Garden’ is a collection for girls-wear fashion and interior that has a strong narrative element, focusing on the tiny world outside your garden. The collection highlights parts of nature that may be overlooked, exploring the beauty found right outside our doorsteps. Aimed to encourage children to interact more with nature, this bright and fresh collection was created with all digital techniques, emulating tactile textures of tissue paper collage textures, using fun overlays and illustrations that appeal to both adults and children.

@vat_of_ketchup / www.artsthread.com/profile/oliviaericson

Olivia is an illustrator with a love for quirky design! She is chatty, cheerful, and a little bit kooky, so you can always expect a lot of personality in her prints! Her focused clientele is generally a fun, witty, youthful woman who doesn’t take life too seriously. Olivia’s work is very ‘tongue in cheek,’ and although this is her personal artistic style, she can easily adapt per assignment or company.

‘Perfectly Imperfect’ is a collection of kitchenware prints that is bound to make anyone smile. The collection uses quick and quirky hand-drawn illustrations to create an all over bright and playful theme. The target audience for this collection is a mum who likes to have a little fun in her kitchen! She always keeps a jar of rainbow sprinkles in her cupboard in case of emergency!

@ellie_maedesigns / www.artsthread.com/profile/ellie-maefisher

Ellie is from the small town of Barnsley which makes her a true Yorkshire lass. Ellie is extremely proud to creatively capture the Yorkshire landscape and local communities around her and introduce both to a global design market. People would say she is a typical “Yorkshire Lass” with a strong accent, surrounded by family who proudly worked as miners and having plenty of whippets but there is so much more to offer and progress from within the positive and modern community of Yorkshire. Ellie’s work follows a definitive style and is socially informed through challenging political ideologies but also emphasising the importance of the community spirit within Yorkshire, historically and contemporary. The concept of her design practice presents positive homely and comforting feelings; Ellie is excited to start her adventure as a freelance Surface and Illustrative Designer and continue to define her style into a global market but also maintaining the “True Yorkshire Spirit”.

‘The Fitzwilliam Wentworth Estate’ is an exploration of a hidden Yorkshire estate that holds England’s largest stately home Wentworth Woodhouse. This collection was an opportunity to highlight the beauty and wonders within the grounds, sadly unknown to many. The collection emphasises the importance of timeless design through interior elements and explores in detail the grounds, villages and wildlife within the beautiful English Estate. Within this collection, the traditional slow craft process of Lino-printing has been digitally developed with a rich and tonal colour palette that highlights the importance of traditional design within the interior market.

@sophieaforster_  /  www.artsthread.com/profile/sophieforster

Sophie is a printed textiles designer with a passion for colour, collage, shapes and form that mould a feel-good aesthetic. Finding the inspiration for her practice from her surrounding, particularly in everyday objects, architecture and nature. Valuing the belief that inspiration can often be found anywhere. Collage is a fundamental process to her design practice, using skills in Adobe Software to manipulate them digitally, to create timeless prints. Sophie is a versatile designer, with abilities to adapt her skills to many markets and outcomes.

“Collage of the Everyday” is a graduate collection appreciating and exploring the everyday forms which surround you, from the most simplistic to the more unusual. A fun and uplifting colour story brings designs to life and encourage a positive mood. Aiming for a feel-good aesthetic, being versatile for womenswear and interior collection. The majority of this collection is created with collage cut outs, manipulated using Adobe Software. This collection is a celebration of Sophie’s practice, her love of colour, collage and appreciating her surroundings.

@ellen.mae.designs / www.artsthread.com/profile/ellenforsyth

Ellen Forsyth is best known for her stylised, colourful prints. Her unique style is simplified but bold and she paints in a very expressive painterly way, often using strong brush strokes. Ellen specialises in pattern design for womenswear but also enjoys designing for interiors and giftware too. She is a versatile designer who can adapt her designs to work for a specific audience or market particularly well. She creates gestural, dramatic, playful designs which are very process driven whilst taking significant inspiration from nature.

‘Luscious Tropics’ is a fashion collection which brings a bright and bold approach to summer style. Each design is initially hand painted to create nature inspired designs. Taking inspiration from the natural world, especially summery tropical foliage, a feeling of content is created which brings out our calm, relaxed side and encourages us to think freely and flexibly. This collection aims to help one get in touch with nature and evokes the desire to be out in the open! The deep blues and green hues act as a relaxing backdrop to the collection and dashes of apple green and tiger lily orange harmonise with the lilac, and blossom pink to create an overall carefree, playful and joyful feel.

@monika.patterns / www.artsthread.com/profile/monikagabryte / www.linkedin.com

Monika is a surface pattern designer that strives to create a story within her designs. Her creative practice includes bizarre objects found both in society and nature. Monika specialises in designing digitally with the means of mixed media. She enjoys delving deep in the research process itself. The unexpected outcomes of experiments and using various digital and hand-drawn methods and techniques make her designing infinitely intriguing. Her confident exploration in saturated colours, illustrative approach and storytelling makes her work distinctive.

Her graduate fabric collection ‘Alternate Reality’ explores botanical concepts between reality and the virtual realm. Designs emphasise the spookiness and bizarre found in floral habitats which are incorporated in hyper-real digital drawings.

@georgiagascoignedesign / www.artsthread.com/profile/georgiagascoigne / www.linkedin.com

The designer likes to create vibrant feature designs that create atmosphere within an interior space, you can see the passion for detailed graphic drawings created with fine lines and water colour. The designs are combined with digital processes to create fluidity within repeat patterns. The designer is based in the Lake District and is heavily inspired by the outdoors from local animals and florals, to buildings.

‘Quirky Al Fresco’ and ‘Charismatic Classical Country’ are two collections exploring the Lake District. The collection had been designed for boutique hotels around the countryside, that would feature as a wallpaper or printed onto fabric to create a bold statement within a room. The collection focuses on the illustration of animals and iconic elements within the Lake District and by using bright bold colours, establishes a quirky flamboyant atmosphere. Designs are created using a fusion of hand-crafted watercolours, pencils and fine liner pen drawing with digital design processes.

@rachelgladwindesign / www.artsthread.com/profile/rachelgladwin

Rachel’s designs are inspired and driven by a love of nature, particularly animals and florals, alongside everyday life. Process is an integral part of her practice; a variety of analogue techniques, such as collage and painting, inform a playful, illustrative style, which is then edited digitally. Although currently specialising in childrenswear, Rachel’s prints appeal to young and old alike, spreading joy and brightening daily life with motifs that help but make you smile.

‘Animals Through New Eyes’ is a collection of printed textile designs for baby apparel. Influenced by stimuli believed to be beneficial in the visual development of babies, the use of simplified marks, shapes and patterns creates easy to understand imagery for young eyes. Taking inspiration from animals found in the rainforest and savanna, stylised interpretations of form create friendly illustrations that work perfectly for babywear. Cheery storytelling adds narrative to the collection, giving personality to each design.

@amymariahdesign / www.artsthread.com/profile/amygreenfield

Amy is a Print Designer and Illustrator from Newcastle Upon-Tyne, creating patterns for a variety of markets and applications with a focus on trend and global consideration. Within her creative practice Amy is an enthusiastic designer keen to explore and experiment with different techniques and media. She has a strong passion and expertise for digital design in an illustrative and conversational way, tailoring processes and design style to the given brief and target market.

Amy focuses her design work on colour and texture along with finding sustainable ways of working by exploring methods and materials to help with reduction and elimination of plastics. Creating colourful prints that can be enjoyed by everyone.

Peek-a-boo is a collection of textural conversational prints for the children’s lifestyle market which bring a Halloween theme to the everyday. Gus the ghost has fun by shapeshifting in his everyday life, away from being scary on the 31st October he’s pretty friendly. Large crayon marks replicate child-like illustration methods to imitate a child’s drawing to create a playful bond between character and child, with added humour that can also be enjoyed by adults. What do ghosts get up to the other 364 days of the year?

@ck.prints / www.artsthread.com/profile/chloehenson

Chloe is an Illustrative Print Designer with a love for drawing and a passion for character design. The aim of her practice is to create narrative-driven designs that bring smiles to faces. Chloe’s illustrative style is playful, expressive, youthful and transferable to many different markets. She is an avid digital drawer, but her heart is with traditional hand driven processes like collage, paper screen printing and ink drawing.

Her graduate collection ‘A Long Hot Italian Summer’ is a cool, youthful fashion collection full of expressive drawings which encompass the impossible heat of summer time. The collection includes a flavour of sweet fruits, bright flowers, and outdoor living, all complemented by vague historical references to European sculpture, architecture and design, with the aim of creating a nostalgia for an unlived holiday. This collection is perfect for a trendy youth market and high-street demographic.Designs include bold stand-alone placement prints and eye-catching repeats. The vivid colour palette drawn from trend research, matches the overall confident tone of the collection.

@jennahewitt.designs / www.artsthread.com/profile/jennahewitt

As a surface pattern designer, Jenna’s creative practice is influenced by her love of nature and passion for painting and other hand processes. Although much of her work is based on florals, Jenna is adaptable to briefs and enjoys the challenge of designing to a variety of markets and customers. Her work is a process of painting, both delicate watercolours and bold and expressive, put into repeat digitally. Jenna loves the use of both hand and digital processes as a way to push her ideas. She enjoys designing across different markets, including interiors and fashion, to continually build her creative practice.

Jenna’s graduate collection ‘Flora of the Dales’ explores the variety of flora found in the Yorkshire Dales through a series of watercolour paintings placed into repeats. The delicate, watercolour painted style allows the beauty of the flora and the natural colours to show through the designs. The painted style creates a visual connection between people and the natural world and is kept through digital development. Designed for interiors and to work across wallpaper, fabrics and furnishings it allows people to bring a little bit of nature into their homes.

@matildahoneyford / www.artsthread.com/profile/matildahoneyford

Matilda is a multi-disciplined print designer, illustrator and weaver. As a designer, Matilda's work embraces four key components: illustration, colour, trends and seamless pattern design and particularly lends itself to designing for the interior, lifestyle and fashion markets.

'Homebody' is based upon the Scandinavian/Danish way of living Hygge. 'Homebody' explores the combined qualities of atmosphere and personal experience and the feeling of home; it is drawn from the warmth and support we experience when we are surrounded by those we love and from finding comfort in nature. In taking time to celebrate the smaller, simpler, things in life and in slowing down a little to appreciate the beauty around us we escape a chaotic world and heal ourselves.

Designed for an interior lifestyle market, narrative is a key component in this collection; patterns derive from traditional analogue pieces created with ink, pencil and paint which are rendered to create digital designs.

www.artsthread.com/profile/annahudson

I am graduating this year from Leeds Arts University after studying Textile Design. I have always been obsessed with the senses and how textiles make us feel. I love that my illustrations allow me to start conversations and bring awareness to important social causes but I am happy I studied textiles design because not only have I been able to express my illustrative side but I have also been able to explore how textiles can be used to help others in their daily lives. This is something I would like to continue with my work.

‘The Lock Down Diary’ is a series of illustrations that describe the designer’s intimate thoughts through the COVID-19 pandemic whilst coping with anxiety and depression. This event has caused much disruption to everyone’s daily routine and the collection was created as a narrative to encourage communication around some of the difficulties we may all be experiencing. The designer also wanted to explore whether the illustrations could be used not only as a means of spreading awareness for mental health but as a useful coping mechanism for the designer personally to help them through these unprecedented times.

@eh.textiledesign / www.artsthread.com/portfolios/online-portfolio

I am a print and pattern enthusiast with a love for expressive and abstract patterns. My practice is inspired by macro textures and surfaces, translated through mixed media mark-making, digital distortion and collage. I specialise in abstracting patterns from natural surface, combining them with lines and marks for an expressive and dynamic mood. My practice is driven through trend-led design and sustainable concepts, and I believe it is important to acknowledge conscious designing.

Buoyant Botanicals is a conscious swimwear collection designed for young girls. The capsule collection investigates the use of sustainable substrates and conscious designing. Exotic and playful botanical cut-outs combined with expressive marks and collaged shapes reflect the beauty of nature which surrounds us. It highlights the importance of protecting our environment and how the fashion industry can make a positive change to the way clothes are produced. The designs have been digitally developed and printed onto ‘Recycled Nylon.’ This fabric is created from nylon waste found on landfills and oceans around the world. It is then transformed into ECONYL regenerated nylon; it's exactly the same as brand new nylon and can be recycled, recreated and remoulded again and again.

@kittymartel / www.artsthread.com/profile/caitlinjohnson

Caitlin is a surface pattern designer specialising in digital design and illustration. Originally from the United States, she now calls Ilkley, West Yorkshire, her home. It is from her immediate surroundings, the Yorkshire countryside, that Caitlin draws the majority of her inspiration from, with a particular interest in nature and the idea of place and time. Caitlin’s practice revolves around illustrative narration, as it is her belief that the story of a design can help a viewer connect with it, just as this design process has gifted a deeper connection to her new home in England. While she mainly works digitally, Caitlin also uses traditional mediums, such as screen printing, linocut, and ink drawings, to add charm and character to designs for a more personal, human element. She often transition between digital and traditional mediums multiple times to capture the benefits of both before coming to a final conclusion.

The graduate collection ‘Autumn Bramble’, tells the story of jaunts through the English countryside, foraging for delights, as creatures scurry around in the undergrowth, gathering their own supplies for the coming winter. The bright and non-representational colours add playfulness to an illustrative style whilst the limited colour palette highlights an emphasis on shapes, use of negative space, and overprinting effects.

@gracejdesign / www.artsthread.com/profile/gracejohnston

My practice is a combination of hand crafted and digitally edited design work with a strong interest in screen printing. My style has a very abstract take on nature and country landscapes as inspiration with a very loose approach to drawing and painting with a varied range of painting methodologies. I am able to create designs and placements prints with gestural and painterly mark makings with textural, organic and natural forms. I am a colour enthusiast and through the use of strong and vibrant colours I always aspire for my designs to be full of fun and happy colour combinations.

‘Wildflowers of the Dales’ is a collection of printed textiles for the high end, high street fashion market with the Spring/Summer seasons in mind. Through a variety of digitally printed fabrics and the use of bright, vivid colours and flowing, textured brush strokes, this collection explores the wildflowers that are found within the Yorkshire Dales. The designs themselves consist of loose, painterly and gestural marks throughout with a contrast of block shapes with flat colour in selected areas.

A textile designer and aspiring interior designer, inspired by colour, art, and abstraction. Line drawing and acrylic painting are key elements of Abigail’s practice, she develops artwork to print designs using digital methods to add and play with bold colours. Caught between a simultaneous love for both minimalism and maximalism, she tries to find a place for her creative work somewhere in the middle, where bold shape and colour can be brought to classic, minimalist design.

Her final collection 'Cut-Out Botanicals' is an explosion of eclectic colours and simple, botanical shapes, inspired by Matisse's cut-outs. Abigail wanted to use this collection to investigate the emotive properties of colour, and create a collection of prints that could develop an atmosphere and encourage the consumer to feel a certain way. This collection has been designed for the luxury homeware market, aligning with brands such as Liberty London and House of Hackney, where luxury prints and patterns are used similarly to works of art, as an investment and a talking point in a room.

@emilykilhamdesign / www.artsthread.com/profile/emilykilham-heeks

As a designer, Emily loves to experiment with process, scale, colour and composition through collage, to create expressive visuals for quirky outcomes. Her designs are mindfully considered, often influenced by biophilic principles, and the organic textures and forms found within nature. Emily’s practice utilises hand and digital processes; creating texture using gestural drawings, mono-printing and experimentation of media, digitally manipulated to create considered designs and tactile screen prints. By exploring the relationship between hand craft and digital, this retains the playful and fun elements of hand drawn imagery, while refining designs using CAD to create final products.

‘In Bloom’ intends to capture the flourishing nature of Springtime. Following key print trends for Fashion S/S 21, blotched blooms and abstract forms are combined to explore blossoms in a loose and stylised method, creating motifs and texture through a range of mediums. Fresh greens and vibrant pastels are combined to reflect the sudden, prosperous landscape of Springtime blooms, rather than the delicacy of florals. Visualised through loose clothing, this collection creates bold garments for empowered women, intended for high end high street.

@lunar3star

Laura King is a graduating textile designer from Leeds Arts University. Her aim as a designer is to explore colour and form in a variety of styles and methods that overall expresses the unique and transient beauty of the natural world. Her passion arises from being outdoors, appreciating how nature is in a constant state of change, from the clouds in the sky, to the blooming and withering away of flowers. Drawing and painting, both by hand and digitally, are the main elements that build the body of her work. In her final years of university she developed a new interest in ceramics and sewing which she looks forward to developing and exploring further.

The collection 'Transient meadow' focuses on delicate florals and textures that can be found within nature. A celebration of enjoying the present moment, being able to focus on the small details and intricacies of different forms from the natural world, the veins on leaves, the beautiful colours of petals, floaty feathers.

This womenswear collection uses whimsical, soft, warm and cool tone colours, creating a harmonious sense of peace, the feeling of being outdoors, enjoying the warmth of the sun against ones skin. Creating elegantly romantic swimwear/lingerie and playfully graceful outfits.

@rachelkozlowskidesign / www.artsthread.com/portfolios/portfolio127

Rachel Kozlowski is a print designer that takes inspiration from her surroundings, including botanicals and natural shapes and the architecture of her environment. She specialises in screen printing, using a variety of dye pastes and binders, and conveying brushstrokes through this process. Textures are transferred onto fabrics either through digital colour separations, or hand painted repeats to get a fully authentic and hand-crafted design, with original brushstrokes being printed. Digital software is also integral to her practice to explore alternate colourways, as opposed to by hand. Ensuring that the correct colour proportions are printed, allowing the high-quality outcomes she strives for to be achieved.

Inspired by the psychogeography of Leeds, ‘Playful Living’ is an interiors collection that focuses on taking in and appreciating your surroundings. A range of abstract shapes extracted from architectural details and more illustrative outcomes complete this collection; encouraging the consumer to express their personality, and surroundings, using colour, texture and pattern. This collection is hand screen-printed onto a variety of silks, wools and linens. Due to the luxurious feel of this collection, it allows the consumer to feel truly at ease within their environment, giving a sense of escapism from everyday life.

@cwl_studio / www.artsthread.com/profile/christopherlongstaff

A contemporary Surface Designer with a passion for materials and interaction. Constantly inspired by the manmade, built environment that utilises aesthetic and practical repetition. Christopher’s creative passion lies with precision and detail, finding the balance between digital and physical allows him to design in a practical and versatile manor. The outcomes design work holds can be transferable to a multitude of surfaces, interiors and setting.

‘Between the Line’ is an interior fabric collection with a focus on heavy upholstery and statement rugs. This collection explores the relationship that line and typography hold as a visual language. Exploring ambiguous line, it's true form plays on illusion aspects whilst simultaneously creating an impact on an interior environment. Inspired both graphic typefaces and by the manmade built environment and how both can hold a strong impact utilising simple structural shapes and bold outlines. Utilising a monochrome tonal colour palate allows the designs to become more emotive and impactful when in an interior setting.

@molprints / www.artsthread.com/profile/mollymarnoch

With a passion for elevating landscape, foliage and weather, Molly creates designs that give tone, tactility and texture to luxury fabrics, using a combination of painterly methods alongside CAD techniques that elevate and refine minimal gestural imagery. By encompassing both hand crafted methodologies such as natural dyeing, and paint with photography, Photoshop and repeat pattern gives her practice versatility and refinement that can be applied throughout lifestyle and fashion prints that capture and relay truthful colour and atmospheric elements of the natural and sublime.

‘Overlooked Sublime’ encompasses texture, tone and atmosphere found within British landscape. Elevating muted organic colours from natural dyes that translate into emotive high-end womenswear for the considered female. The combination of painterly and digital method repeats on sheer and heavier silks throughout allow for the fabric to embody the fluidity, unpredictability and movement of British weather and landscape, with a crisp and minimal finish for high end fashion prints.

@esmerose_design / www.artsthread.com/profile/esmemarshall

Esmé is an Illustrator and Surface Pattern Designer originally from the sunny south of England but now lives up north in Yorkshire. Hand drawn, mixed media illustrations allow designs to have a playful narrative, exploring themes of comfort and adventure within both the collections respectively.

Hand drawn illustrations are central to Esmé’s collection ‘Great Grandma’s House’, creating nostalgic patterns for family home interiors. Her designs often contain a storytelling narrative for all ages through wonky yet detailed shapes. Her secondary collection ‘A Day for the Ducks’ focuses on a playful narrative for babywear, exploring cheerful colour and illustration combined into fun designs suitable for both parent and baby.

@louisamcmillan_design / www.artsthread.com/profile/louisamcmillan

Louisa McMillan is a printed textile designer whose inspiration stems from the surrounding natural world, capturing the spirit of flowers and plants to create contemporary yet timeless designs that appeal to the constantly evolving commercial sector. Louisa’s practice is predominantly watercolour based, utilising expressive drawing styles whilst focusing on pattern and movement. She utilises strong colour combinations and gestural brushstrokes then enhances and manipulates these designs through digital software to produce repeat designs appropriate for fashion and interior markets.

‘Brushed Botanicals’ depicts an interior collection of stylised watercolour designs, showcasing nature in a bountiful quality. The collection is designed to update mainstream interior botanicals by allowing watercolours to bleed, highlighting the beauty of the hand-crafted process. Painterly brushstrokes allow expression and movement. Designs are combined with bold coloured backgrounds to add depth and opulence. Colours pulsate between deep violet and leafy greens to bright crimson and light yellows resulting in lively combinations. Designs are appropriate for a range of interiors furnishings; cushions, bedding, curtains and wallpaper prints.

@amilieaanneart / www.artsthread.com/profile/amilieametcalfe-watson

As a designer, the majority of Amiliea’s work is created through digital means, she has extensive experience with Adobe Photoshop, Procreate and InDesign. She also loves to work traditionally, having skills in watercolour painting, drawing and silk screen printing. Amiliea’s style is illustrative and playful informed by a considered target audience, colour and motif choices taken through the designing process itself. She also has a passion for pushing the possibilities of digital applications, experimenting with stylistic approaches and tailoring work for a client or trend need.

Amiliea’s main graduate collection ‘Graphic British Florals’ is a collection of textile prints, aimed at women of all ages and sizes who are consumers of the high street market. This range encourages inclusivity with elements of complimentary scale variation and multiple levels of bold print, allowing the collection to be wearable for people of all comfort zones regardless of size and age and promoting body positivity, confidence and wellbeing. All bodies are beautiful, this should be celebrated through print design.

@inkwellspells / www.artsthread.com/portfolios/graduate-portfolio24

Alice is an Illustrator/Maker creating historical and literary inspired designs through the mediums of printmaking, embroidery, laser cutting, paper cutting, painting and drawing. She often takes antique imagery and updates it for contemporary audiences through the use of bright colour and digital modes of illustration. Visiting historic houses, museums and galleries is often a starting point when searching for inspiration, and if possible Alice uses recycled or found materials in work to compliment the antique theme.

Her graduate collection, for home furnishings, is called ‘Country Hearthside’. It centres around the idea of a cosy English house and the treasures inside it. Inspiration for previous projects have stemmed from the Romantic poets, Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’, Victorian mourning customs and English and American folk art.

@olgaprints_ / www.artsthread.com/portfolios/graduate-portfolio-1 / www.olgamotema.co.uk

I am a Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern Designer graduating from Leeds Arts University with a BA in Textile Design focusing on designing for fashion and home interiors. I am a colour and print enthusiast exploring colour in a mark, shape or pattern, true to traditional print methods and drawing techniques such as mono printing and collaging I aim to create vibrant, expressive yet sophisticated designs.

'Living scenery' is an interiors/home wallpaper and furnishing collection. It sophisticatedly illustrates day to day household items and objects to bring about a sense of calm and familiarity to one's home. The colour palette was specially chosen to induce a warm, comfortable and edgy vibe to a living area. The collection is inspired by the designer's passion for process led design and print making.

@lilymullen.design / ​www.artsthread.com/profile/lilymullen

Lily is a designer with a passion for the screen print process. For Lily, designing is intuitive and to express her creativity through hands-on processes comes naturally. She is a versatile maker, her playful approach and natural ability with colour allows her to design across multiple applications, appealing to a breadth of markets. Her designs celebrate her love for colour and the desire to share this with consumers. The desire to physically engage with materials and a respect for the screen print process underpins Lily's practice. Pattern is part and parcel of our everyday life - from the ornate to the mundane, pattern is Lily’s passion and she seeks to share and celebrate it through her work.

'Crafted Pattern' is an entirely screen-printed graduate collection. It aims to bring joy to the interior setting through colourful and bold designs. Inspired by patterns that occur in the man-made world, it looks to Modernist architecture specifically to pull shapes. Working with simple motifs, Lily’s clever use of repeat and her openminded approach to pattern and colour make for a playful collection of bolds prints that aim to celebrate and share her three passions; pattern, process and colour.

@nm.surfacedesign

Process driven multidisciplinary surface designer focusing on material exploration and surface texture through a range of visual arts processes including printmaking, photography and collage expanding her knowledge through many substrates. Natasha’s love for traditional printmaking techniques such as mono-printing, etching and lino printing stems from how unique the final print is - each print the outcome can be slightly different from depth of colour to position. These printmaking techniques can be transferred onto a desired surface which allows for materiality experiments through print.

‘Memory of Line’ collection is the exploration of line, movement and marks found in natures surfaces created over a length of time. Combination of expressive techniques and material manipulations to create organic pattern and colour. Process led investigation using natural rust dyes and digital printed repeats on silk. Incorporating the uncontrollability of nature throughout adding fluidity and irregular movement in the designs for high end fashion prints.

Using knowledge of materiality throughout this project Natasha explored the ‘what if?’ exploring techniques in ways which you normally wouldn’t. From hand dyeing fabrics in non-traditional substances to dipping fabric in solutions to effects the surface.

@charlotte.nicholson.design / www.artsthread.com/profile/charlottenicholson

Charlotte Nicholson is a designer is inspired by handmade processes and the importance of nature. Gouache painting techniques are key within her practice and she loves to depict expressive floral imagery through hand-made techniques. Colour is a key factor which drives her practice and the emotional and physical effects linked to colours is something which continues to interest her. Charlotte likes to experiment with hand-painting techniques and digital design, and how these techniques combined with an interest in colour theory and application, can work together to create uplifting print collections. Her print collections are primarily designed for women’s fashion market however she loves designing prints across a wide variety of fashion, interiors, and greetings markets.

‘Tropical Retreat’ is a collection of painterly print designs inspired by tropical florals and foliage. Aimed at a women’s swimwear market, this collection of prints uses a vibrant colour palette to boost mood and promote positivity and wellbeing within design. Gouache painting techniques are used alongside digital editing processes to translate hand-painted floral motifs into digital repeat prints. These designs are inspired by the importance of nature and the sense of escapism that nature can provide, to create a collection which promotes happiness and relaxation.

@i_ox_design / www.artsthread.com/profile/izellaoxenham

Izella seeks to challenge the traditional concept of Textile Design, specialising in fashion applications. Previous fashion internships in the industry have solidified her passion for both design and styling. Being able to physically style outfits has informed her design process and creation of prints. This also sparked Izella’s interest in the business side of fashion. She is greatly confident in expressing design ideas, enjoys working as part of a team and thrives in a design collaboration.

The collection defines Izella’s identity as a designer. It features a range of fashion prints referencing gestural, graphic 90's magazine aesthetic, where kitsch texture and sensual female figures merge, teasing the eye and creating an empowered attitude through design. The process of collaboration with fashion graduate Jess Morley and seeing prints developed into garments have been extremely rewarding for the designer, a feeling which drives and excites her emerging practice. The combination of both graduate collections best represents Izella’s style, as she prepares to launch herself into the industry as a fashion-focussed Textile Designer and Stylist.

@chlo.eve_design / www.artsthread.com/profile/chloeparker / chlo.eve.art

A multi-disciplinary artist with an intrinsic love of drawing and a keen attention to detail. Chloe’s approach to design is motivated by a strong appreciation for handcraft; where sketching, painting and printing allows her to express a multitude of themes.

Having had a background in tattooing, this often informs her drawing style and thematic content. Chloe is heavily influenced by the natural world and historical references with inspiration surfacing in a large variety of places; from florals to folk art, ornamental pattern to skeletal structures. Chloe’s work ethos is informed by artisanal values, with quality and care being a core part of her practice, she believes this is an important part of working sustainably.

‘Phantasmagoric Flora’ is a collection of textile print designs for the fashion market. This A/W 21/22 trend sees a fusion of historical references with a gothic undertone. Influences of Baroque and Romanticism are combined with alternative subcultures of metal music and tattooing, resulting in floral prints that are dark yet feminine.

@hpaynedesigns / www.artsthread.com/profile/helenapayne

I am a passionate print enthusiast whose work resides around my love for screen-printing and sustainably conscious design. Focusing on both fashion and interior fabrics, my prints observe line, shape and texture resided within our natural world. Combining expressive brush strokes, exaggerated contours and bursts of colour allows me to produce versatile, multi-disciplinary designs that celebrate my love for surface pattern.

‘Alternative Animal’ displays exciting, abstract and bold prints that create multi-directional repeats; using versatile and playful shapes to create patterns suitable for more than one disciplinary. The collection promotes circular designing, where one motif can be adapted through the adjustment of colour proportions and scale - enabling my collection to accommodate various market sectors and client profiles. The use of a sustainable trans-seasonal colour palette, with prints suitable for both fashion and interiors, means the collection stimulates longevity and purposeful designing. In turn this results in the reduction of the waste produced throughout the creative process, reflecting on the concept of a ‘circular world’ and promoting sustainably conscious design.

@katiepaynedesign / www.artsthread.com/profile/katiepayne

Katie Payne is a textile designer excited by the endless possibilities of pattern and colour. Her work is abstract, striking and colourful and a result of digital testing, manipulation and experimentation. There is a rebellious and challenging nature to her designs - aiming to investigate, break and redefine the norms of pattern and colour through visually jarring clashes and occasional optical trickery often with an underlying political message. Able to design for a variety of contexts including fashion and interiors, she considers application and usability throughout the design process while always challenging how far the boundaries of each market can be pushed.

‘Modular Interruption’ consists of a series of mini wallpaper collections. Designed to bring pattern and colour to interiors whilst still allowing room for individual creativity; the wallpapers are bold and clashing, with pattern heavy strips that can be mixed and matched. Individual strips are designed so that upon application they can be cut up and pasted however desired, or ordered in any combination, with elements still matching and working together. The mini-collections all aimed at different spaces, for example homes, restaurants or offices. Of course however, there are no rules or instructions - only to create colourful and exciting interiors!

@rosierackham / www.artsthread.com/portfolios/portfolio162 / www.linkedin.com

Rosie Rackham is a Surface Designer and Illustrator with a bold, clean cut, graphic style. Her work is influenced by the everyday; the hustle and bustle of urban cityscapes, conversations with friends, to the way the light shines through the window at dawn. Using a minimal visual language, Rosie’s current practice explores interpersonal and environmental relationships; particularly the human relationship with nature and the harmony it brings us.

‘Isolated Interiors’ is a collection of atmospheric prints inspired by a series of paintings created in the midst of COVID-19 lockdown. Balanced, consistent and symmetrical, this collection looks at the therapeutic powers of analogue art and the history of painting in meditation. Bold curves and strong angles echo 60’s and 70’s pattern design, the Bauhaus movement and mid-century modern living.

@louisa_sadler / www.artsthread.com/profile/louisasadler

Louisa Sadler is an enthusiastic and passionate print designer whose interests lie in print, dyeing and concept development, all of which have sustainability as a primary focus. Often working with hands-on processes such as natural dyeing and screen printing, creating a feeling of care and celebration is at the core of her practice.

‘Gratitude’ is a trend research project which explores trends for Spring/Summer 2022 through naturally coloured and printed fabrics and trend books. The collection explores the quality of being thankful for the past and for the planet. Natural qualities and colours are used to connect consumers back to nature and provide comfort and mindfulness in the wake of an overwhelming, uncertain time.

Translucency and delicacy are an important aspect of this collection and chosen materials are conscious of their environmental impact and often have sheer qualities, such as peace silks and organic cottons. Prints are inspired by surrounding nature, such as plants' shadows with a focus on simplicity.

@amieclairedesign / www.artsthread.com/profile/amieservice

My name is Amie Claire Service and I am currently finishing my final year of studying BA (Hons) Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern Design at Leeds Arts University. I am a contemporary digital print designer with a focus on playful designs and fun colour choices. With a love of mark making and line, I am drawn to shapes and textures mostly found in nature but also inspired by my direct surroundings. My designs are mainly curated for homeware and interiors.

When designing I love the idea of ‘bringing the outside in’ as I believe that nature plays such an important role in affecting our mood and improving mental wellbeing. My graduate collection titled 'Colour Block Tropic' is inspired by this idea and I have created a sample of tropical themed prints with a relaxed style and warm feel that would be perfect for home furnishings or interiors and would bring an uplifting spirit to any space.

@emma_printedtextiles / www.artsthread.com/profile/emmashakeshaft

I am a Printed Textiles Designer who focuses on creating graphic, dynamic prints using both analogue and digital processes. I predominantly work digitally when designing as this allows me to create the appropriate aesthetic for my market. My practice is influenced by trend and market research and it is essential for me as a designer to keep up with what is ‘on trend’ and ‘in fashion’. Sport has been a part of my life since a young age. I have good memories of going with my Dad to Old Trafford to watch Manchester United play. My personal passion for sport has inspired my recent design collection, ‘Distorted Motion’.

‘Distorted Motion’ focuses on movement within sport, exploring the symmetry in swimming and the freedom of gymnastics. The collection is inspired by British Olympic athletes including Adam Peaty and Max Whitlock. Using sporting heroes of the now as trend inspiration, is a way to create and explore new concepts within the fashion sportswear industry. Digital rhythms mesh with sport inspired textures creating distortion in athlete’s movement. A collection of unisex prints designed for both sport and fitness enthusiasts as well as the fashion and brand conscious.

@lucyrosetextiles/ / www.artsthread.com/profile/lucy-rosesiegert

I’m an Illustrative Textile Pattern Designer who is inspired by the natural world, in particular flora, and ideas of femininity and female empowerment. These inspirations stimulate and drive my playful and unique perspective of our world; whether it be through dreamscape wallpapers, or slow crafted silk scarf designs, as well as trend-relevant apparel prints . Colour is a driving force amongst my design work which helps to elevate my whimsical illustrations, evoking feelings of tranquility and comfort in a viewer. Digital software as well as screen printing and hand dyeing are all key aspects of my design process, and help to visually inform my final outcomes. All of my digital work can be easily colour separated for traditional printing methods, and my confidence with Adobe software proves me to be a versatile and adaptable designer.

‘Illustrated Goddesses’ is a collection of slow crafted luxurious silk scarves and complimenting repeat prints, celebrating the combination of the female form with fauna and flora. These Art Nouveau inspired illustrations have subtle hints of Renaissance romanticism and modern pops of brightly coloured pastels, enhancing the whimsical nature of the pieces and ensuring the viewer is transported to a space of complete tranquility.

Casey Smith mainly uses collaging, mark making and textures to create abstract patterns that reflect shapes and forms within nature. Her designs are playful, gestural and bright. Casey has a passion for creatively playing with overlaying shapes and mark making to create busy collages that she then takes digitally to explore colour. This kind of technique is a style that strongly represents Casey as a designer.

‘Abstract Floral’ is a collection of prints that demonstrate different shapes from floral forms. The shapes are combined with textures and marks to bring depth into the design. Her collection consists of bold and busy prints but also some that are appealing for just one simple style of repeated mark. Her designs are complimented with a bright, summer inspired palette influenced by trend-led research. This collection is aimed for fashion but also works well in interiors.

@corinnesnelldesign / www.artsthread.com/profile/corinnesnell

Corinne Snell is a printed textile designer who has a passion for colour and lively print. Pattern for positivity is a central belief that runs throughout all her work with her designs aiming to evoke feelings of optimism. Corinne is an experimental, process-led designer who focuses on hand processes such as painting and screen-printing to produce designs. Her drawing style is expressive and gestural, with texture and painterly references being a key element. With a versatile style Corinne can adapt her work to many markets and outcomes. Corinne aims to create timeless prints that are bold, statement pieces adding colour and excitement to people’s lives.

Titled ‘Botanical Utopia’ Corinne’s graduate collection is a contemporary fashion collection aimed at the high-end womenswear market. Statement designs capture the infinite beauty of the natural world through exuberant prints. Large scale florals are illustrated within lively compositions featuring a painterly and expressive style. Screen printed silks and wools display the joy and warmth of summer through vibrant hues. The collection is inspired by the appeal of escaping to a botanical utopia in times of uncertainty, evoking a sense of positivity and optimism by creating the feeling of summertime in bloom.

@abbysowerbydesign / www.artsthread.com/profile/abbysowerby

Abby is an Illustrator and Print Designer from Durham. Whilst building her creative practice she has developed a playful and illustrative style, which is usually focused on a younger market. As well as having a playful style, Abby is a very commercial designer with the ability to push her ideas the furthest she can for the best outcome. Abby’s approach to any project is often digitally led, with a focus on Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Designing digitally is something she has always loved and she tries to push her skills further with each project.

‘Safari Explorers’ is aimed towards a baby fashion market but has visualisations that are not limited to this. The designs themselves are intended to have a cute and playful style which is both appealing to children and their parents. This playful style is reflected through the colours, characters and patterns that are seen throughout the collection. A lot of the designs are centred around placements which relate to education and learning – for example what animals look like, sound like or what they’re called, while still remaining light-hearted and commercial.

@tatyanaashby_design / www.artsthread.com/profile/tatyana-ashbystuart-grumbar

With a specialism that lies predominantly in fashion and interiors, Tatyana is interested in creating that which both sensually and emotionally uplifts and connects to a way of living. Tatyana seeks to create beautiful and impactful statement prints that not only look, but feel luxurious. Inspired by lifestyle, Tatyana designs with imagery that seeks to evoke and is reminiscent of being abroad in exotic locations; the Mediterranean and arid climates. Tatyana is interested in how a visual can have the ability to provoke a positive emotional response in its association with a particular setting or sentiment.

‘Sensual Exoticism’ is a collection of textile prints for luxury womenswear, which observes unusual exotic plants and fruits, for a sense of intrigue; manipulating and occasionally magnifying forms, capturing sometimes unexpected views, with the intention of creating unique outcomes. Carefully and meticulously crafted, each print showcases hand-painted tonal depictions in conjunction with graphic aspects for an introduction of the more contemporary.

The collection seeks to exude a sentiment of being in an exotic setting, for instance, this particular piece displayed attempts to visually and emotionally simulate a sensation of blissfully bathing in exotic waters, with vivid turquoise hues and sinuous movement of form.

@daniellehollly / artsthread.com/profile/danielle-hollytitmas

I’m a graduating textile designer with a love for all things nature! Florals play a key part in my practice and I am also influenced by the bohemian aesthetic and Indian block-printed textiles. My process is hands-on, ranging from drawing and painting to screen-printed and dyed fabrics. Creating concept boards and design stories is another part of the process that I love, as well as pulling together many influences such as artists and photographers, art movements, books and poetry.

My drive for design comes from a real love and appreciation for nature, and a fascination with the simple beauty of leaves, flowers and plants. I hope to translate this through my work, sharing feel-good, free, feminine designs for a life lived in pattern and colour.

This print collection is inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic novel. The collection explores the duality of day and night; half of the designs use a light, fresh colour palette with mellow lilacs, pinks, and soft yellows. The other consists of a deeper and richer palette with forget-me-not blue, navy, and cerise. A romantic and floral collection for womenswear, summer blooms and ditsies feature on day-dresses and skirts, as well as evening gowns and jumpsuits. The tone of the collection is feminine, summery and sweet.

@vellaannmarie / www.artsthread.com/profile/ann-marievella

Hello, my name is Ann-Marie and I am a textile designer specialising in detailed florals through a combination of mediums consisting of watercolour paints and pen drawing techniques. Focussing on blooms, I have had the opportunity to study form, expressing my style of striking vibrant painterly florals through the process of layering detail to show a journey with every motif explored. Drawing is the catalyst to where my designs progress onto digitally manipulating the drawings to fit with the composition and scale of the overall idea, following extensive research into a target audience with influences of upcoming trends.

‘Floral Burst’ is my primary graduate collection, focussing on an eruption of vibrant floral prints based on S/S 21 trend forecast on WGSN, with a high street high end market for women who love a bold style of print. Allowing the floral paintings to speak for themselves through the significant detail explored allowing the collection to work as one with simpler designs maximising the overall use of how the prints can be worn within one outfit.

@erin.wardingham / www.artsthread.com/profile/erinwardingham

As a designer Erin considers herself to be creatively versatile with a love for digital as well as drawing processes. She finds inspiration from the Modern Art movements, and the challenge of developing the key aspects of such movements into contemporary designs. There is also a personal commentary that drives forward the themes. Erin’s surroundings play a role in what the subject of her work will be; inspiration can be derived from friends, nature, travelling or exhibition visits. Colour is a vital element to her work, whether that be a bright and vibrant palette, or a darker palette with contrasting brights. The colour story told through her work connects the modern influence to a contemporary market.

‘Graphic Colour’ is a stimulating collection of printed textile designs created for the women’s sportswear market, but with potential for diverse application. Inspiration is pulled from the mismatched compositions and distinctive geometric graphics typical of the Memphis Art Movement. Linear qualities balance the obvious colour blocking, providing a platform to exhibit a sense of movement and illusion, influenced by features of Op Art. A bold and vibrant colour story is injected throughout.

www.artsthread.com/profile/hannahwhalley

Hannah Whalley is a Surface Designer with a vibrant, playful aesthetic and a rebellious streak that is integral to her practice. Her analogue approach to design and colour is intuitive and exploratory, resulting in an energetic style. Abstract forms are inspired by the everyday, from natural foliage to the shapes and colours of the playground. More figurative work is stylised and trend led. Over time she has explored the different approaches, colours and patterns related to the wellness trend and has engaged with it from an alternative angle, recognising that bright and colourful prints can be light-hearted and liberating in daily life.

Hannah’s designs can be versatile and diverse in application but she has chosen to design specifically for soft furnishings in her graduate collection, named ‘Abstract Assemblage’. The aim of the collection is to allow the consumer to become savvy without having to compromise taste or expression. Prints are varying scales and include placement prints and textural repeats that can be mixed and matched. A range of furniture decals has also been developed as a way of personalising budget friendly or second-hand furniture. This collection focuses on making artful and quirky prints at a more accessible price range for those seeking them – taking motivation from the ‘IKEA Hack’ trend.

@ow_design / www.artsthread.com/profile/oliviawilkinson

Olivia Wilkinson is a multidisciplinary textile and material-led designer based in London. She embraces the transformation of a material through an experimental and hand-on approach, focusing on material play. The understanding of material language underpins her investigative practice, seeking to challenge materials by understanding their behaviour and discover new relationships between them through innovative process. Her work predominantly explores tactility through range of substrates, often interpreting concepts through the use of softer materials. Thorough and varied research drives her investigations. Elements across fashion, interior, sportswear and automotive specialisms all influence her investigative practice.

Challenging perceptions of concepts drives her practice, this can be reflected in her graduate collection which explores comfort in the form of inflatable furniture. Here she re-examines trends in inflatable furniture and challenges the possibilities of inflatable structures. Extending the potential of inflatables became the driving force for this collection, leading her to investigate upholstering inflatables with unconventional materials. This investigation has allowed her to embrace playful and hands-on material play. This collection perfectly demonstrates her cross-specialism interests, with inspiration ranging from the tactility of automotive upholstery to pioneering design in inflatable furniture, Quasar Khanh.

@indiomia_designs / www.artsthread.com/portfolios/portfolio160

My designs are inspired by the everyday things that are often overlooked such as textures - looking at things in different perspectives has allowed me to be more conscious when creating designs and it allows me to get into nature, rather than just designing from inside. My two main influences are the North York Moors and the Coastal villages of where I grew up. I am a surface pattern designer who is passionate about engaging with the community to create art. I have a passion for hand crafted processes and the different therapeutic approaches to creating art.

'Moorland Escape' focuses on the aspects of landscapes that are often overlooked. This collection looks at the texture and positive and negative spaces that make up a landscape. Hand printing methods such as monoprints were used to create organic shapes. Colours were inspired from the North York Moors landscape in the summer time to fit with the collection being for Spring/Summer 2021.

@adelewilson.design / www.artsthread.com/profile/adelewilson

Adele is a printed textiles designer with a love for illustration and conversational patterns. Inspired by her surroundings, social talking points and current trends, she enjoys creating new narratives that offer a sense of fun and positivity. Illustrating by hand and digitally, Adele creates stylized motifs that provide energy and amusement, delivering subtle educational messages where possible. Using her digital skills in Photoshop, Illustrator and Procreate, she develops and enhances drawings and paintings with bright colours and playful elements. Adele naturally gravitates towards children’s design, as this allows her more freedom to integrate cute characters and reimagine generic subjects.

Nature meets technology in her collection, ‘Psychedelic Savanna’. Inspired by the growing awareness of endangered wild animals, yet exploring how the digital world is increasingly influencing all areas of design. Traditional and digital paintings are combined to create conversational patterns and placement designs for children’s interiors. Artificial colours are used to reimagine classic themes surrounding safari wildlife, creating fake realities that offer self-expression and a sense of escapism during these difficult times.

@alicewilson_designs / www.artsthread.com/profile/alicewilson

Alice is a surface pattern designer and illustrator who specialises in creating playful and fun designs; narrative and story telling is an instrumental part in her design practice. Describing herself as a massive child at heart she has a natural love for children's design as it allows a freedom to explore colour and characters. Her passion is producing designs which are quirky and aim to make people smile. Alice hopes to one day use her designs to capture the imagination of even the oldest and biggest kids. Alice creates contemporary designs for childrenswear, stationary, art prints, interiors and gifts. She has worked with a variety of companies to explore versatility in her practice, producing designs for different markets. Winning a brief set by Milliken carpets, receiving second prize in a girlswear brief from H&M and a commendation in Hallmark gifting.

‘Merry Monsters’ is a collection of printed textile designs for high street childrenswear. This collection is fun, illustrative and full of characterful imaginary friends. This collection features playfulness, cut out shapes and saturated colour stories. Taking inspiration from familiar childrens party objects, these textures are reimagined in relation to the monsters themselves, as well as through googly eyes and holographic foils.

@ellenkwilson_designs / www.artsthread.com/profile/ellenwilson

Hello! My name is Ellen Wilson, I am a printed textile designer with a passion for all florals and nature combined. My creativity is informed by having a a love for hand-rendered painting techniques. I am a driven, versatile designer and I am able to direct my talents to produce high quality work for alternate markets. My design practice entails working in various painting styles with a range of medias, then turning these into technical repeats. Having strong knowledge using digital software allows me to adapt designs and have the ability to present my work in alternate scales, exploring vibrant colours and compositions.

My graduate collection ‘Painterly Blooms’ exhibits a collection of contemporary, bold textile prints featuring watercolour painterly blooms alongside skilful decorative illustrations. Lively compositions enhance the beauty of nature, exploring movement, rhythm and alternate scales in each unique design. The spring/summer collection is visualised on a selection of fashion prints for the high street womenswear market. Digital printed silks enhance the bright, fresh colour palette, which is inspired by the celebration of nature in the natural world.

@laurenwoodleydesign / www.artsthread.com/profile/laurenwoodley

I am an illustrator and surface pattern designer. My practice is led by my intricate considered drawing style exploring my adoration of nature through themes of flora and fauna. I use pointillist pen work and layered brushstrokes to create texture, to appreciate minute features of motifs. I predominately design digitally to play with composition and colour. The draftsman quality of my work leads me to design for Womenswear and Homeware for the high-end market, but I can apply my process and knowledge of trends to a variety of markets.

'Stories in the Sky' is a collection of printed textile designs for homeware and interiors. The collection aims to find fresh meaning in ancient wisdom amid an uncertain world. Exploring the wonder and awe of celestial bodies, this collection narrates the stories that begin beyond Earth. Digitally printed designs onto velvet enhances the textural quality of the detailed paintings, and intricate drawings are digitally developed into wallpaper patterns.

'Pointilist Perennials' is a collection of Womenswear prints focused on highly detailed, meticulous illustration. They are purposely designed for summer clothing, with a bright colour palette and printed onto drapable, lightweight cotton.

@studionough / www.artsthread.com/profile/matildawoolnough

Matilda Woolnough is a textile designer and illustrator with a focus on giving personality to the everyday. Painting and drawing by hand and digitally are key elements in bringing Matilda’s colourful designs to life. Using pattern she is able to convey a light-hearted, playful feeling, whilst capturing moments with a sense of familiarity. Her aim is always to bring positivity and playfulness to her work whether that be through her use of bright colours or characterful illustrations. Matilda’s process always starts with drawing, which stands as a central focus to her work, but enjoys adding life and colour both through digital methods and more hands-on approaches.

‘Busy Abode’ is a collection of printed textile designs that focuses on chaotic interior scenes and colourful homes. Designed for an interior market, narrative is key within this collection and patterns and repeats stem from still life style placement paintings. Drawing from eclectic interiors 'Busy Abode' looks at a range of different design eras but updates it with a contemporary and vibrant colour palette. These hand painted designs clash both pattern and colour to create busy, lively designs.