Tigerprint

Paula Brayson

Q. How did you gain your placement at Tigerprint?
A. For winning the Gift Packaging and Envelope online competition, 2012.

Q. Please describe what you did whilst on your placement i.e. briefs worked on etc.
A. 3d related briefs for cards, seasonal gift packaging and games concepts/inner 3d pieces for older children/adults.

Q. What did you most enjoy about your placement?
A. The creative hard working environment and all the very friendly, helpful people.

Q. Was there anything you did not enjoy about the placement?
A. No, it was an intense buzzing 2 weeks.

Q. Are there any things, which you think we could improve about the placements?
A. No.

Q. Have you had any freelance work offers from Tigerprint following your placement and if yes what types?
A. Yes, a set brief covering a 3d luxury gift packaging range for males and a 3d gift pack brief aimed at the mature female customer.

Q. What is your dream job?
A. To continue to expand my freelance clients in the greetings industry.


Q. Who is your favourite designer & why? 
A. Ellen Giggenbach is a favourite of mine. I find her work a great combination of folk art, retro illustration, painted texture, wonderful graphic pattern. I love how she creates her images from her vibrantly coloured papers, all painted with acrylic and cut out. Ellen’s delightful paper craft kits are visually stunning too.

Q. What has been your favourite trend in 2012?
A. I am drawn to Scandi/Nordic combined with the homespun feel.

Q. How do you like your tea?
A. Yorkshire Tea tastes great with a substantial slice of delicious cake or a special biscuit.

Q. What is your favourite font?
A. Wild Western/Circus type fonts, some great vintage examples on The Lost Type Blog, worth a look.

Q. What’s on your ipod?
A. Chillout Classics, Springsteen, Led Zep, Creedence, Deacon Blue, Lady Gaga, Adele.

Q. What do you do for fun?
A. Health club classes are great fun, Zumba and Salsa, the music all helps!

Q. What’s your favourite design blog?
A. Print and Pattern is a favourite.

Q. What makes you happy? 
A. Being creative and proactive, I really enjoy design projects, whether commissioned or personal, 3d or Spoonflower patterns, I always grow from them.

To find out more about Paula visit her website or on Linkedin.

Placement Profile: Jenna Lee Alldread

Another lovely placement, click here to see Jenna's profile.

Tigerprint Open Day

We will be holding an open day on both Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th March at our studio in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

It's a wonderful opportunity for you to come to Tigerprint HQ and find out all about us and the work we do and it's great for us to meet lots of talented new designers and you can see what happened last September in this post on the event.

As a reminder we are on the look out for a wide variety of disciplines so if your a textile, surface pattern, 3d/packaging, graphic designer, illustrator, photographer or animator we want to hear from you! Apologies to anyone if I missed your discipline out and please don't hesitate to apply. Tigerprint is made up of a wide variety of talented people including those with background in car design and Interior design so it just goes to show you we really are a mixed bag of talented folk.

Interested? Then take a good look at the poster above to find out what you need to submit - remember this is your chance to sell yourself and why we should pick you! All that we ask is that you submit your applications by Sunday 24th February and that you are available to come to our Bradford Studio Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th March.

Please note that to be in with a chance of joining in this special event you will be required to email a pdf of images of your work, a cover letter detailing the following: what you do that”s different, what you hope to achieve by attending one of our open day”s and what makes you tick!
Now, don”t waffle on, be to the point and inspire us! We are inundated with requests every week
so really make yourself stand out!

I think that's everything but if you want to check anything please don't hesitate to contact us as we are more than happy to help.

victoria.lem@hallmark-uk.com

https://www.facebook.com/TigerprintersStudio

Twitter - Tigerprinters

 

Thanks and good luck

Tigerprint Open Day

Some of you may recall that last September we held the very first Tigerprint Open Day in our Bradford Studio. This was a huge success with one designer even joining us permanently in the studio as well as others working with us as placements and freelancers!

It was such a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of talented designers and work with them in our very own studio so do be sure to read the post on last years event.

Therefore I am delighted to announce that we will holding an open day on both Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th March.

We are on the look out for a wide variety of disciplines so if your a textile, surface pattern, 3d/packaging, graphic designer, illustrator, photographer or animator we want to hear from you! Apologies to anyone if I missed your discipline out and please don't hesitate to apply. Tigerprint is made up of a wide variety of talented people including those with background in car design and Interior design so it just goes to show you we really are a mixed bag of talented folk.

Interested? Then take a good look at the poster above to find out what you need to submit - remember this is your chance to sell yourself and why we should pick you! All that we ask is that you submit your applications by Sunday 24th February and that you are available to come to our Bradford Studio Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th March.

Please note that to be in with a chance of joining in this special event you will be required to email a pdf of images of your work, a cover letter detailing the following: what you do that”s different, what you hope to achieve by attending one of our open day”s and what makes you tick!
Now, don”t waffle on, be to the point and inspire us! We are inundated with requests every week
so really make yourself stand out!

I think that's everything but if you want to check anything please don't hesitate to contact us as we are more than happy to help.

victoria.lem@hallmark-uk.com

https://www.facebook.com/TigerprintersStudio

Twitter - Tigerprinters

 

Thanks and good luck!

We write, you draw!

The Tigerprint editorial team is on the lookout for people who love to doodle! If you think you can bring our words to life with your line drawings you’re in with the chance to win a two-week placement and potentially see your sketches translated in to real life M&S greeting cards.

 Interested?

Find out all the details at this link.

Olivia Ogden

  © Olivia Ogden

© Olivia Ogden

  © Olivia Ogden

Olivia Ogden was invited along to our Open Day in September and is currently studying Graphic Design at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Olivia demonstrates her design skills particularly well in projects such as the re-branding of Topman for Las Vegas and a travel guide series.

Find out more about Olivia and her work here.

Frances Moffatt

© Frances Moffatt

© Frances Moffatt

© Frances Moffatt

© Frances Moffatt

 

Frances Moffatt is a very talented illustrator who we invited along to our Open Day in September.

Frances is a freelance illustrator based in the North East of England, specialising in fashion, beauty and lifestyle images. France's work is characterised by dynamic line work, combined with vibrant colour and bold pattern and texture.

Find out more about Frances and her work here.

Beth Yates

  © Beth Yates

 © Beth Yates

  © Beth Yates

                 © Beth Yates

 

We had the pleasure of meeting Beth Yates a few weeks back at our very first open day. Beth is currently studying Graphic Design at Leeds College of Art & Design and has a varied portfolio featuring pattern, fab typography and some really lovely cute and quirky characters.

You can find out more about Beth and her work at the links below:

http://cargocollective.com/bethyatesdesign

http://www.etsy.com/shop/bethydesigns

http://www.facebook.com/bethyatesdesign

Yuyu Design Studio

 

© 2012 Yuyu All Rights Reserved.

   

© 2012 Yuyu All Rights Reserved.

 

 

© 2012 Yuyu All Rights Reserved.

 

 

© 2012 Yuyu All Rights Reserved.

 

"The people behind Yuyu are husband and wife team Mark McKeown and Julie-Anne Hughes, both designers but with different design disciplines. Julie started her textile design journey at art school in Scotland. Over fifteen years on, having worked in top design studios in New York and London; Julie now lives in Leeds and divides her time between designing for Yuyu, part-time lecturing to the textile students at Leeds College of Art, and most recently new mum to son Bertie.

Mark has nearly twenty years of experience in graphic and editorial design working for many well known national and international clients. They met back in 2004, since then Julie’s passion for surface pattern and screen-printing started to influence Mark’s everyday graphic design work. In 2007, they decided to combine their different skills and love of bold graphic prints (often influenced by the retro patterns they grew up with in the late seventies), to create Yuyu. They launched their first collection at Top Drawer in September 2008".

We had the pleasure of meeting Mark last week at the Tigerprint Open Day and it's safe to say that the Tigerprint team were bowled over by his design talent.

Find out more about Yuyu here.

Emma Wood

  Copyright © 2010-2012 Emma Wood. All photographs Copyright © 2012 Laura Ramsey

  Copyright © 2010-2012 Emma Wood. All photographs Copyright © 2012 Laura Ramsey

  Copyright © 2010-2012 Emma Wood. All photographs Copyright © 2012 Laura Ramsey

  Copyright © 2010-2012 Emma Wood. All photographs Copyright © 2012 Laura Ramsey

Emma Wood was another lovely designer we had the pleasure of meeting at our Open Day last week.

Earlier this year Emma graduated from the University of Cumbria, Carlisle BA Hons Contemporary Applied Arts (specialising in Embroidered & Printed Textiles).

We were really impressed with the techniques Emma uses in her work and it was really lovely to see this in Emma's work and discuss it in depth with Emma on the day.

Find out more about this very talented young lady here.