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RMIT students
design nursery fabrics for Spotlight
b l o g s
& sites to watch.
Last year Spotlight was a proud
participant in RMIT’s Young Essentials
Project (YEP), a programme aimed
at providing merchandising students
with the opportunity to work to a
commercial brief for leading Australian
fashion retailers. Spotlight gave one
group of students the opportunity to
see their class work transformed into
a real product line. This innovative
course gives students a broad based
understanding of critical areas such
as fashion product development,
supply chain, marketing, CAD/IT,
merchandising and planning.
Right: Christine Clark, Quentin Gracanin,
Robyn Lyons & Zac Fried.
Left: (From left to right)
Rachel Alfonsi, Francesca
Gelai, Cheyney Herron,
Jordana-Lee Pearce, Alicia
Chan and Rima Al-Bay are
the members of HATCH,
students from the Royal
Melbourne Institute of
Technology’s Associate
Degree in Fashion and
Textiles Merchandising.
Their collection of printed
fabrics for the nursery
will be produced and for
sale in Spotlight stores
nationally in February and
it will be called HATCH.
The students behind the HATCH fabric
design are aged 19 to 23. Their work was
chosen to go into production by Spotlight
because, after an intensive feedback
process, it so exactly matched the
company’s brief. According to the students,
the HATCH concept is “based on kids and
creativity and what they (the consumers)
actually want to buy”.
Left: Part of the presentation kit from HATCH.
“Our Mums are certainly
proud and can’t help but
tell everyone they know!”
says the HATCH team.
www.pepperdesignblog.com (a
collage of handmade projects
and DIY ideas – great for home
renovators), sallycampbelltextiles.
blogspot.com (after 25 years
designing sets and costumes for
Australian films, this blogger now
designs handmade textiles), www.
quiltdad.com (delightful musings
of a New York father of three who
loves to make quilts), ispy-diy.
blogspot.com (Manhattan’s Jenni
works at a fashion magazine and
uses DIY techniques to emulate
the fashion looks of New York’s
most stylish women), littlesnoring.
blogspot.com (one Tassie gal’s
collections of favourite ideas
to fuel her jewellery, toy sewing
and homeware making hobbies),
handmaderomance.blogspot.com
(Melbourne graphic designer posts
about her own handmade creations
as well as inspiration), yarnchick.
blogspot.com (irreverent sci-fi
loving crochet addict).
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