Graduation!

So this is it - the day it's all come down to. 

I've waited 10 long years for it and you know what - it paid off:

  I GOT A FIRST CLASS HONOURS!!

 I'm so glad to have shared the experience with so many amazing people

: congrats Creo - we did it!

Welcome to the show

Our degree show is up and we're open for business: Welcome to the Creo Degree Show!

I've had two great pieces of news this week: firstly, prior to opening I received notice that I was going to be awarded The Chartered Society of Designers Student Award, for all the work I had done on the course during the last year. This was nominated by the tutors - wow! what a shock! The awards ceremony took place on the preview night of the show and I presented with the 'already on my wishlist for the library' book the art of looking sideways (how chuffed was I!?)

I also found out that I've been selected to exhibit at New Designers (which is very exciting) and will be making the most of these last few weeks at NTU before I do :)

My family made it down to the show, which was great, so I gave them a tour of all the work - I'm so very proud to be part of such a talented bunch of people!

So that's it - up for a week then a speedy take down, before prepping ourselves again for exhibiting in LONDON!!!

Setting up the show

The last few weeks have been stupid busy with degree show set up and realising that this is the....end of the degree :(

Mike has been helping with the bases to our display stands

(shhhh, he's been a bit like our secret technician ;)

We've been prepping the boards ready for display

and erecting them in place ready for hanging up the show!

I tried out various arrangements for my space...

...after getting moved a couple of times...

I'm glad I was convinced to include my drawings however

They really helped tie the whole thing together!

The studio was laid out with all our back up work

It's just a real shame that it couldn't be out with the public show.

Brochure Preview

It's been a busy few weeks with our lead up to degree show...the brochure is getting ready at the printers, but because I can't wait to share it - here's a preview!

Our dates for the show:

Creō

Each year on Decorative Arts, the 3rd year of the course brand themselves for their final year exhibition. We have called ourselves Creō (the latin of create) and since the end of last year we have been fundraising for the production of our end of year brochure. 

Remember the Before I Die... event? That kicked us off raising over £400! Since then, we have held an auction: 

where I secured these wins:

We also held a Christmas Fair:

selling drawings from the sketchcrawl:

plus other items from everyone on the course:

And after creating our brand logo, we hosted a really exciting showcase

Instigated by the lovely Melody

We held a one day pop up show with everyone from the course contributing some work. It was a great success, and secured some more funds for the brochure too - yippee!

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