NCAD Graduate, Aoife Mullane wins SDC International Design Competition
This year’s result signifies a third year in a row that one of the NCAD students has won the grand final. Previous winners were Rachel White in 2013 and Orla McCarthy in 2014.
Aoife Mullane, a Printed Textiles graduate from the National College of Art and Design has become a winner of the SDC International Design Competition 2015.
The announcement was made at a prestigious awards event held at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. The competition judges were internationally acclaimed designer Dame Zandra Rhodes, knitwear designer Laduma Ngxokolo from South Africa (a previous winner of the competition) and Duncan Neil from Turnbull Prints.
Aoife was chosen over the other finalists representing Hong Kong, India, UK, Singapore, Thailand, Bangladesh, China, Portugal, New Zealand and South Africa. All entries had to show evidence of using colour as an integral component of the design process as well as incorporating this year’s theme of Buy Less, Choose Well.
