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Behind The Scenes

Today, we held a bake off here in the Tigerprint Studio! All money that was raised will be donated to our two charities that we are supporting this year. These are Cancer Research and Forget Me Not Children's Hospice.

Society of Dyers and Colourists Celebration Dinner 2013

  Jessica Wilde - Winner of Tigerprint & SDC Colour Competition

  The Tigerprint Team

  Rebecca Diggle the SDC UK Finalist with the competition judges

A few weeks ago we were delighted to attend the Society of Dyers and Colourists Celebration Dinner here in Bradford. We were kindly asked to display the winner and runners up designs from the Colour Competition which was held earlier this year.

It was such a lovely evening which saw Rebecca Diggle from Nottingham Trent University crowned the UK finalist of the SDC annual international competition. Rebecca is a Decorative Arts student and will fly out to Mumbai later this year for the final of the competition.

In addition Jessica Wilde who was our Colour Competition winner earlier this year was presented with a goodie bag, certificate and beautiful flowers in a special presentation at the dinner. This was a wonderful end to the two week placement which Jessica completed here at Tigerprint.

Congratulations to both Jessica and Rebecca and we wish Rebecca the best of luck with the final in November.

 

Behind The Scenes - Easter Egg Hunt

We love a bit of fun in the name of charity here at Tigerprint. Today, in celebration for Easter, we decided to hold an egg hunt!

Happy Easter everyone! Hope you all have a great weekend!

The Society of Dyers and Colourists

Today I am delighted to bring you a interview with Richard who is the Colour Experience Manager at the Society of Dyers and Colourists.

Richard shares an insight with you into his role and what inspires him.

 

 

Tell us about you and your role at the SDC.

 I’m the SDC Colour Experience manager which means that I’m responsible for the coordination and delivery of the SDC’s educational programme.

 

What is involved in a typical day at the office?

 

There’s no such thing as a typical day – I could be working with a visiting school group exploring the science behind colour and light in our workshop and gallery, or I could be visiting a nursery to read them a story about colours and doing some colourful activities, or I could be delivering a lecture on colour to design students at a university – or I could be catching up on emails and planning in the office.

 

What is the most rewarding part of your job? And the most challenging?

The most challenging part is managing all the different educational activities that we offer.  We work with such a wide audience that it’s sometimes tricky to keep up to date with all the different curriculum areas that colour is involved in.

Most rewarding? Seeing the enjoyment that learning about colour can bring – whether it’s some technical aspect of colour that I’ve managed to explain clearly or the wow factor of some optical effect of colour or the delight of children in creating a colourful piece of work.

 

Who is your favourite designer/ artist?

I’d have to say Sydney Harry.  He was a local artist and lecturer who experimented with colour effects.  He was influential on the work of Bridget Riley – Bridget attended one of Syd’s lectures in the 1960s and started to move from monochrome to explore colour – and he was also instrumental in setting up the SDC Colour Museum (which became the SDC Colour Experience) in 1978

What inspires you?

The number of different areas that colour is involved in.  From the science and technology behind creating and seeing colours to the art and design of using colours.  Everyone has favourite colours and opinions on colours  - it’s a great subject to be involved in.

 

What book are you currently reading?

 

I’ve just finished Terry Pratchett’s A Blink of the Screen.  It’s a collection of short stories and bits and pieces from throughout his writing career.  I really enjoy his writing and have reread the Discworld series many times – he’s my default author when I’m between other books!

 

 

What three things would you want to have with you on a desert island?

I guess I’d go for survival stuff – knife, rations, shelter – that sort of thing.  If you’re thinking about luxury items then it’d have to include a book (probably one of Terry’s), paper and pencils (coloured!) and maybe a selection of cryptic crosswords would help while away the time.  Not very exciting I’m afraid!

 

Surprise us! A fun fact about colour ...

The best colour vision of any animal belongs to the mantis shrimp.  Our vision works on three colours – the mantis shrimp’s works on twelve, with another four thrown in for extra filtering!



Get in touch with Richard and find out what the SDC are doing i.e  any public events etc via:

http://www.sdc.org.uk/

Twitter (@SDC_Richard, @SDC_org_uk)

 

 

 

Don't forget that this month's competition is a collaboration with the Society of Dyers and Colourists and our brief is all about colour!

We will be accepting entries until midnight (GMT) Sunday 10th February and to enter you must head on over to our brand new website http://designcompetition.tigerprint.uk.com/

 

 

Macmillan World's Biggest Coffee Morning

Today Tigerprint are very proud to be taking part in the World's Biggest Coffee Morning in support of Macmillan.

Our coffee morning will begin at 10.30 am and we will bring you some pics of the yummy cakes later in the day.

Find out more about coffee morning's happening near you and how you can support over here.

Behind the Scenes: Baby Fuddle

Image © Tigerprint

Image © Tigerprint

The Tigerprint Bradford Studio had a fuddle* during the week to say goodbye to one of our fabulous Graphic Designers, who is going on maternity. As always there was plenty of food being passed around and some yummy looking cakes. There was also guess the baby pictures competition, if you've been in the Studio can you guess who they are? 

*Fuddle: Everyone brings in food for a studio picnic.

Tigerprint Olympics

The Tigerprint team at HQ have been taking part in a company wide Olympics. We've had activities such as the Sack Race Relay, 3 Legged Race & Wellie Wanging. Its been great to see everyone getting involved and its not over yet. We've got a 100m sprint final tomorrow, lets see if we've got the next Usain Bolt in the team.

Here are a few photos so far.

One of our Designers, Neil, taking part in the Sack Relay Race

A real team effort in the Sack Relay Race.

Going for gold, a member of our Finance team wins the Penalty Shoot-Out

Only in Yorkshire, The Artwork Manager taking part in Wellie Wanging.

Behind the scenes at Tigerprint!

Today's question in the Tigerprint studio on our pink pillar is what would be your walk out song if you were a wrestler?

 

And the Winners are....

We had a fun filled Easter themed day yesterday and as promised here are the results of the Character Challenge. From left to right, created by our fabulous designers Lucy C, Abbi G, Nicola W & Yvonne, and below by Bruno.

Easter Challenge

The Tigerprint Studio have been set an Easter Challenge this morning, they had an hour to create another studio member from a boiled egg & craft materials. The results look fantastic and if you've been in the studio let us know if you recognise anyone.

Check out our facebook pages later on today to see who won.