St. Hilda’s Art and Design Department

In addition to winning a weekend design master class at the Bluecoat in May, Laura Williamson, Laura Hughes, Lindsay Ball, Caitlin Brie, Kimberly Chan and Holly Elliot-Wyler will also see their designs exhibited at the festival in November. They are shortlisted for the overall fashion category prize to be awarded at a special awards ceremony.

Design Stars was launched as part of the new Liverpool Design Festival to encourage budding design talent to think about the design industry as a realistic career option by working alongside inspirational, professional role models from this exciting sector.

 Our pupils were inspired by a visit from local bag designers Nook and Willow who challenged pupils to produce designs and prototypes for bags made from recycled materials. We would like to thank all twenty-eight pupils who submitted entries for all their hard work, commitment and enthusiasm. They set a very high standard and made St. Hilda’s proud!

In response to a brief set by ‘Wild in Art’, the people behind the Super Lambananas, St. Hilda’s Art and Design Department have risen to the challenge and created a fantastic penguin with an ecological message.

Pupils in the Penguin Club discussed their ideas and were invited to submit designs. The completed penguin, inspired by artist Michael Velliquette, is called ‘Spirit of the Earth’. The girls created a design out of cut paper.  

The design is busy and detailed and hopefully keeps the viewer looking and searching for all   the creatures nestling in an imaginary landscape. The girls talked about the joint responsibility of everyone on the planet to protect the earth for future generations. The front celebrates nature and its diversity and  the back shows a melting ice cap as a warning, like an illustration from a modern day fairy tale with a moral.