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Creative use of colour lands Textiles student place in international competition

Singapore, Tuesday 22 July 2010

Come October, Fashion Textile diploma student Meng Jing will be heading to London to represent Singapore and LASALLE College of the Arts in an international Design competition. She stands a chance to win the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC) Colour Design Award 2010 with a cash prize of £1000, plus the Veronica bell trophy.

SDC is an international professional society that specialises in colour and aims to disseminate information through the colouration industry, the tertiary competition’s focus is on the creative use of colour.

Participants have to demonstrate an original and imaginative use of colour to produce a distinctive piece of work that exploits the enormous potential of colour to communicate difference and individuality. In addition, each design has to incorporate an element of thinking around social responsibility.

Earlier in June, Jing represented LASALLE in the Singapore heat of the SDC International Design competition co-organised by SDC and world’s leading supplier of textile dyes, DyStar. She beat 11 other entrants by students from LASALLE, Raffles Design Institute and Temasek Polytechnic.

Industry judges for the Singapore heats included experts such as Colour & Trends colourist Marn Lim, Couture & Bespoke designer Kevin Seah and DyStar International brand/Retailer Liaison Manager Nicole van der Elst. When asked about Jing’s piece, Mr Marn Lim said “It is the most comprehensive piece of design work in the competition, from trends and colour palette to a finished product. Beautiful colour palette and presentation skills.”

 

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Jing’s design boards are awash with colours ranging from pale-washed green, blue, muted pink to bleach white and grey - to bring out a sense of peace, simplicity and co-existence with nature.

 

Jing’s winning entry ‘Fly Eco-chic’ features discarded fabrics manipulated into nest-like forms. Said Jing, “I want to prove how small things that may seem unattractive at first, can be made into elegant and exciting pieces of art. Eco-friendliness should start from an individual’s appearance and I was inspired to create an embroidery textile based on the recycling behaviour of birds that use broken twigs and leaves to make their nests.”

Meanwhile, international fashion company Aussino has already offered Jing a position as a textile designer. Having found a job long before graduation in this September, she added tongue-in-cheek, “The early bird gets the worm!”