Wednesday 21 November 2012

Summer And Spring Print Collection

Brief

Inspired by ladylike elegant shapes, the use of light flowing fabrics as its a summer and spring collection the material has to be right for the weather.

Designing my own prints using all sorts of flowers, leaves and also natural including animals for example - the butterfly.
Using repeat pattern and over laying mixing in the design prints creating a colourful palette, taking colours that are bold and bright and relate to spring and summer.

Design Collection




Saturday 26 May 2012

Awakening - The joy

Concept One

Brief

Exploring the different ways that jot can be seen through a wide range of research and ideas linking each one to another to form a focus of the word joy.

I started off with looking into the joy of childhood.
" When does a childhood begin and when does it end"
How everything shapes a childhood from experiences and how traces of the past still shapes children today
as a child's thoughts are seen through colour and drawings. As many years ago children used to draw on the ground with chalk and by looking at these images you could get a clear feeling of how that child is and what there childhood as been up till that point in life.

How a child changes to an adult and the effect it can cause

Cultures show there joy through the outfits they ware in special events, the use colour that is presented and the use of material to every detail is shown in the way they are feeling.

Concept research pages

Print work
Creating prints by using repeat drawing and overlaying skills and choosing a colourful pallet from one of my research images to use as a background.

Birmingham art gallery and museum
joy can be shown through toys and dolls

Design development pages




Collection line up




Slumber

Concept two

Brief

with the concept slumber its focusing on the bad memories and an bad environment can cause damage on a child's and person mind

The anxiety, tense and defenceless signs of a person changing
The artist EDWARD MUNCH translated this through paintings showing in ways that you have to look on a deeper meaning to see what he is really trying to say as the painting called "Puberty" the black shadow that is behind the girl which is larger than her, has different names for it. showing that there is always change that is going to happen

Also looking into abuse, neglect  and poverty effects not only a child and adults to the kind of pressure it can cause on a person can damage her or him in ways that you might not see when you look at them but their insides, how they really feel. everything they have been through becomes a bad memory and for some they still live there. presenting these in print works, colour pallet and fabrics to relate to the concept, can be shown in many forms.

Concept research pages


Birmingham art gallery and museum 
Being used for my research and print ideas on to garments for my collection




Using print ideas of a girl from Edward Munch of the girl screaming relating to my concept slumber
using repeat pattern and over laying in certain ways.
Using a colourful print that is being used as a contrast between what is going on in the image and the colours.





Collection line up




Final Major Project

...Emotions...

Why are you hiding behind a mask?

What part of you do you hide..... What part of you do you show

Or

Do you show every side of you to everyone or just one or some?

Tuesday 17 April 2012

Breif


My collection is an autumn and winter line.
Throughout my research and development I explored a wide range of print ideas from the research I had collected, this is why the part I chose to focus on was the designing of the print. I will be experimenting with techniques such as overlaying, repeat pattern, using different images within one print, and also experimenting with size with having some parts of the print bigger than others,

The design print I used for my collection was faces which looked like a face of mask, I used side and front views with repeating the pattern in different directions and over laying the print to, which I found made it look more interesting to the eye because of the use of lines that created the lines of the face, eyes, nose and mouth, and using the phase " Are you hiding behind a mask" which linked in with my design print

Concept research pages








Design development pages








Collection line up






photo shoot


Photo shoot of my three outfits i designed and made







Look book

Look book photo shoot for GFW