Interface Flor WRL project

As part of the Work Related Learning initatitive in Design &Technology, InterfaceFLOR came in to set a ‘live brief’ to year 10 BTEC Students. Textiles and Graphics worked collaberatively to produce inspritational tiles and promotional material.


Ms Austin – Work Related Learning Co-ordinator

Georgia Mould 10AG from textiles won a work placement with the company and here is what she had to say about the experience:

“For part of our coursework, we were asked to design and create 8 tiles for the company “Interface Flooring”, then present them to a representative of the company. When we were told about this, our fist task was to research the company. We found out that the work with environmentally friendly products.

A lady from interface flooring came in to talk to us about the project. We started thinking about how to create the tiles using recyclable, sustainable and found objects.

Then we started designing our tiles 10cm by 10 cm, and choose what theme or name we would give to our designs. We started to think about style and colour schemes that would run throughout the project.

Once we had our designs done we started making the actual tiles. We used a wide range of resources:glue, glue guns, wood, wax, paint, glitter, sequins, sawdust, paper and tissue paper. And anything else we could think of!

After we finished the tiles, we made mood board that reflected our tiles.

Hannah from interface floor came back in to judge the tiles. Each student in the class got their own table to decorate and set up their 8 tiles, mood board, research and textiles. When she came to each table she spoke to us about the tiles and the theme and how the ideas all came together. 3 students were awarded priizes: Justine Gilbert 10WY, Parise Bowerbank 10SD and Lizzie Lewis 10SC.

After that the school was told that two students had won a work placement at the company; myself and Fern Whiles!”