Design Team: Setting a creative brief for Staffordshire University

Esme Henshall

Enthused by the vintage and rustic surroundings of her cottage home, Esme is experimenting with various medias such as wax crayons and coffee beans to create unusual and varied textures.

Morgan Chalinor

After viewing contour lines found in aerial maps of Cannock Chase, Morgan takes an abstract approach, layering up various medias to create organic textures.

Victoria Glover

Drawing inspiration from her hometown of Manchester, Victoria’s patterns reflect architecture through abstract mark making with inks.

Georgia Webster

After spotting patterns in fences while visiting her hometown, Georgia has created geometric designs through cad work and various mark making skills.

Martha Crimmins-Impey

Inspired by past trips to the Lake District, stone washed walls inform Martha’s naturally inspired patterns. Linking this to the Terrazzo trend she creates texture with rubber-stamping.

Having reached the halfway point in their six-week timeframe, our designers Amy Pears and Maria Swain popped in to visit the students to assess their work on the brief so far.

Eva Turner

Exploring winter scenes from her home village, Eva applies leaf mark making through the addition of bleach and ink in earthy tones.