Catrin Jones has won the New Designers Tiger Print Award at this year New Designers Exhibition in London.
opportunities. They worked us hard but we expected that and it has certainly prepared us for the real world.
The prize consisted of a cash prize and a two-month paid placement at their Bradford studio. Tiger Print is a subsidiary of Hallmark exclusively producing gifts, toys and stationery for Marks and Spencer’s. The New Designers exhibition at the London Business Design Centre is a showcase for the most promising graduate talents from Britain’s leading design courses.
“Swansea was a great place to study, it’s a city but it has a town feel, full of nice people where everyone knows each other. The course also had a great community, competitive but everyone was working together. Our studio space was wonderful, with all three years together.”
“The course was absolutely brilliant, the tutors are so dedicated and provided us with invaluable external project
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Catrin is now working as an illustrator for Hallmark Cards.
“Catrin has been a great student. In the second year she won a pitch to produce props for the set of the TV show Da Vinci Demons. She also won a live project with the luxury clothing and lifestyle company Toast, run in conjunction with the Surface Pattern programme. “In the third year she won the Per Una print for women’s wear live brief, a project set by M&S for the Surface Pattern course resulting in a month’s placement at their head office in London. “Earlier this year she was selected to represent the university at Indigo Paris, Premiere Vision international fashion and textiles trade fair. She was well
placed to do this having spent last summer undertaking a placement with Amanda Kelly design studio in London. In response to her graduate show in Swansea she was short listed by the Mission Gallery for the Jane Phillips Award and will be exhibiting in the Swansea Waterfront Museum”.
exciting opportunities including openings with many other companies, but equally she is well poised to further develop the innovative work she has produced this year under her own name.” Programme Director Georgia McKie
“We knew from early on that she was talented but its great to see this being endorsed by so many external industry professionals. She has used the course incredibly well, she has developed the skills to interpret all given briefs and she is incredibly versatile as a designer. She has many
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