Fashion Show features student designed t-shirts


Last month Casualty and Hollyoaks heart-throb James Redmond visited Carlisle to present the city’s first Fairtrade Fashion Show at Carlisle Cathedral. The event was organised as part of World Fairtrade Day on 8 May.


Anna Blair, University of Cumbria National Award student, won a competition organised by the Carlisle Fairtrade Group to design a fashionable t-shirt for the show, based on the Fairtrade theme.


Lucy Mikkelson-Baron and Lauren Rudd, both BA (Hons) Contemporary Applied Arts, finished runners up.


The winning design featured on the catwalk during the evening event alongside Fairtrade fashion items sold by high street chains such as Monsoon, Laura Ashley and Marks and Spencer.


Anna Blair models one of her t-shirts


Ian Farren, Head of School of Art and Design, said: “I’d like to congratulate all of the students who took part in the competition. Fairtrade is a very worthwhile cause, and it’s great to help promote it in any way we can.”


The judges were Katy Lee, a designer at Co-operative Clothing and Jacqueline Geddes, Carlisle City Council’s Fairtrade Champion. Jacqueline previously studied at Carlisle Art College.


Claire Feeney, from Carlisle Fairtrade Group, said: “All of the designs put forward by the students at the University of Cumbria were of a high standard. It was obvious a lot of thought and imagination had gone into the project. I know the judges spent a lot of time deliberating before choosing the winner.”


As well as being represented on the catwalk through the t-shirt design, the University of Cumbria also attended the event with an information stand to recruit potential students.


University a triple winner at regional Oscars!


As Hollywood’s elite prepare to walk the red carpet at the Oscars, University of Cumbria students celebrate - after striking gold at the Royal Television Society regional student awards.


Entries from the University of Cumbria were voted Best Fiction Film, Best Factual Film and Best Entertainment at ceremony at The Sage in Gateshead.


Programme Leader Rob Charters said: “This is a fantastic achievement for our students. They’ve worked really hard over the past three years, and it’s great to see their work being recognised in a professional context. These awards should help boost their careers.”


Richard Leshone, 22 was the director of “Inc”, which picked up the award for Best Fiction, beating off competition from students at the University of Sunderland and Newcastle College. The production team was made up of Stephanie Whitehead, Gavin Power, Alex Wright and Max Heisler.


The award for Best Factual film went to “Impressions”, a film about a blind radio presenter and drummer from Belfast. It was directed by, Judith Kinsella, with a production team of Don Morrison, Cameron Chalmers, Lucas Albro and Austin Blaylock.


The Entertainment category was won by “Learn a Language”, a series of three short campaign films designed for television, cinema and the internet directed by Michael Morgan Bain. The team included Abigail Allsop, John Pierre Casanova, Carla Jagger and David Hunter.


These awards are the latest in a long line of awards won by students of the course stretching back to 1994. The University is always up against stiff opposition from other universities in the region such as Sunderland, Teesside and Northumbria.


Always strong in the areas of drama and animation, the University of Cumbria has been developing its provision in the areas of documentary, commercials and music video production and is now hoping to work with industry in the development of video games and new media. Winning the awards in the Factual and Entertainment category shows the development of a broad range of provision has given the students the opportunity to create interesting and award-winning work.


Michael Mitchell, lecturer in producing, said; “This is great for the University and a tribute to all of the staff both academic and technical. Achieving a clean sweep on Saturday night helps show many of the positive things that happen at the University and also shows that even though the University is going through some difficult times, we are still competing in real terms with the other universities in the region.”


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