Textile student to represent UK in SDC international competition
Fri, 03 Jun 2016 10:50:00 BST
Laura Ensinger, a final year student of Textiles with Surface Design BA/BSc(Hons), has been crowned the national winner of the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC) 2016 International Design Competition.
Laura’s impressive win saw her scoop a trip to Shanghai where she’ll travel to in November to represent the UK in the Grand Final of the international competition at the Shanghai University of Engineering Science against other winners from around the globe.
Photo (top to bottom): Laura Ensinger with Trevor Larkins, SDC President; Nicola Redmore, Senior Lecturer, Laura Ensinger and Linda Lewis, Design Resource Co-ordinator
Incredibly, this is the second such win for a student of the University of Huddersfield in the past two years, Dan Matthews bagged the same award in 2014.
Laura fended off five other regional finalists to be crowned UK champion of the competition during a ceremony in York on 20 May where she was tasked with presenting her work to a panel of prestigious industry experts from the fashion and textile industry.
The judges described her winning design, ‘Personal Expression’, as a ‘vision’ and ‘beautiful work…all about colour’. She was also praised for her ‘stand out presentation’.
Congratulations to Laura, everyone at the University of Huddersfield wishes you every success in the November final!
