Today I went to a talk by Mandy Trolley, I
was told about it by the surface design tutor, Hazel Hewitt, as she thought it
would help me with putting my designs onto surfaces.
She showed us a full range of textile
products and her sketchbooks. Mandy uses a lot of embroidery and mixed fabric. Mandy's style involves mixing and playfully using a range of themes, bears eating fast food, framed dogs, ducks and scented gremlin creatures.
She introduced us to Hot Bed Press, in Salford
where she teaches workshops and where she learnt about of her techniques and Fab Lab in Manchester, which I have wanted to go for a while, this was really helpful to me as one of my fears during my 3rd year was not having access to the print room, now I know there is space out there. I was
really jealous to hear about all the fancy equipment she was able to use as she
studies embroidery at MMU and the programme where post-graduates can still use
the facilities there up to a year after leaving.
After watching Mandy’s presentation and
seeing her images I thought a lot into setting up a photography corner in my
studio for photographing my 3D pieces, a simple while corner will do with some
good lighting because now a have a professional camera I don’t need to make
arrangements for somebody else to photograph my work.
I also noticed her attention to branding her products, soft labels, packaging and stamping where ever necessary. I think packaging and labeling is things a definitely need to look into fro myself, boxes for my mugs and soft tags for cushions and bags.
I was mostly interested in her print workshops, some work that people have produced from these lessons are really inspiring.
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