Design Practice III//Negotiated Briefs//BA (Hons) Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern Book Collaboration.

Design by BA (Hons) Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern graduate 2012, Lisa Martin

Yesterday, whilst discussing the brief and an overview of the Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern brief collaboration with Claudia Griffin, and looking at past prospectus books, we agreed that, and found, that the majority of Graphic Design collaborations for each of the degree prospectuses were in groups of four, due to the high demand of the brief, along with balancing other important projects and responsibilities at the time.

Discussing potential working partners, we were immediately drawn to the idea of working with Kirsty Cave and Kirsty Alderson, not only friends of ours, but also a great working partnership. As people we felt we could easily talk to, whether it be with negative or positive feedback (and I'm sure that is mutual between all of us), being able to be openly constructive around one another, and with a great balance of skill sets and interests, I believe we'll be a great working team.

Of course, both Claudia and I were delighted when both Kirsty's agreed to join the collaboration, and we look forward to meeting up with them later on today to discuss potential development for the project along with planning our written brief for the return to Uni (and our presentations) later on next week.

Design Practice III//Negotiated Briefs//BA (Hons) Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern Degree Prospectus.

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For one of my ten negotiated briefs for the first half of the academic year, I plan to enter the competition/live/collaborative brief to design the BA (Hons) Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern Leeds College of Art end of year show/degree prospectus. 

Traditionally, third year Graphic Design students collaborate with one another to create the degree prospectuses, and this year, the vast majority of the students from the Graphic Design programme did just that, with a couple of exceptions, such as the Visual Communications degree programme.

Myself and housemate Claudia initially talked about working together to design the BA (Hons) Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern degree prospectus, not only because we're close friends and work well with one another/have similar tastes, but also for our interest in the degree (both claiming it's what we would have chosen if not for Graphic Design), and the real benefit of the fact that we are currently living with four third year students currently studying on the programme, which would be a perfect source of inspiration, insight and feedback source throughout the design process.

Really excited to start researching past designs and hopefully creating a really professional-standard design outcome.