Each year New Designers hosts a series of awards where they invite key industry leaders to select their rising stars of tomorrow, and this year the awards were opened by renowned British Textile Artist and Designer, Margo Selby.
Loughborough Textiles students receive awards at New Designers 2023
We are pleased to share that Catherine Owen-Milson and Peace Rodliff are winners of industry awards in the first week of New Designers (ND) for 2023.
Catherine Owen-Milsom is the winner of the Sanderson Design Group Award which asked designers to demonstrate collections which express confident use of pattern and colour to evoke a specific mood through interior furnishings. The award sought designs that recognised the aspirations of today’s customer and demonstrated creativity, innovation, and commercial understanding.
‘Grow Together’ is a celebration of community gardening, highlighting the importance of access to an outside space and connecting with others within your community. Taking inspiration from current events, such as food shortages and climate change, Catherine explored community gardens with allotments that teach about growing your own and the idea of becoming more self-sustaining.
Catherine has been awarded a 12-month paid internship with Sanderson Design Group and is able to work on any one of their 6 brands in their Design Studio.
Peace Rodliff is awarded the winner of the TU Clothing Creative Pattern and Print Award which sought print designs or collections that are ideal for the TU customer, keeping print and colour at the heart, as well as share their passion for design, sustainability and push innovation forward.
‘Home is Not a Place’ is a project which seeks to explore the effect of migration on print design, fashion, and our society, through a collection of designs for luxury womenswear. Peace focused her project on her grandmother’s migration from Belize to the UK in 1960, and found both fashion and migration to be great catalysts of change and that, over time, the diversity that the movement of people brings has helped form our society into who we are, both individually and as a nation.
Peace has been awarded a 1-year paid internship and will also receive mentoring from the TU Clothing Design and Print team to gain invaluable industry experience.
Congratulations to Catherine and Peace!
Visit our online Degree Show to see all the inspired and innovative work from the 2023 Design and Creative Arts finalists.