Final Fashion Fabric Designs.

Looking through my work before I handed it in for assessment I realised how much it has improved from last semester, I have learnt how to use different methods to make repeat patterns and how shapes can fit together to make tessellating patterns and designs.

These designs are all in repeat and to scale for a 420 x 297 mm (A3) piece of fabric. The patterns are intended for summer shorts and would be suitable for the 2013 high street market. 

Final 8 designs printed on paper, (semester two), DESN 2565;

Collection 1

Collection 2

My two final digital designs printed on fabric, 60 x 100 mm (semester two), DESN 2565;

Inspiration;

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Photography Final Year Project; Wrath and Happiness

Photography; final year project

Seven Deadly Sins; Wrath

Emotion; Happiness

Models: Hattie Adams, Aamir Osman

I decided that wrath would be the main subject for deciding on colours

and style. Red is the colour most common with wrath and anger, two things are red in the

photographs, blood and light. I wanted something extra to give my photographs an edge,

light painting was an effective way to make my images stand out and more creative. It is

achieved by setting the camera on a long shutter speed, then painting shapes in the air

with a source of light. The camera catches a trail of light in the direction it was moved, I

used a wind up torch for these photographs.

Happiness is reflected by two simple things inspired from images on deviant art, nature

and flowers. The flowers are not obvious straight away, the white daises on the floor match

the ring of artificial flowers around her head. These symbolize happiness. I specifically

chose a park as the location of the photo shoot, green grass and blue sunny sky bring a

lightness to the images. The trees behind however look dark and sinister, creating the right

atmosphere for my photographs. I positioned the models for most of the photos with the

sun directly on the side of them, I used a reflector to bounce the light onto the other side of

their face. One photo in particular the sun is behind her creating a halo type effect on her

blonde hair.

The clothes she is wearing are inspired by my fashion photography research. The colour

black has many meanings in the fashion world, it can be used to portray power, elegance,

luxury, secretive and mysterious. I used it to to create strong body shapes, strength,

dominance and a hint of glamour. 

Gillian Rosemary Designs

Check out Gillian Rosemary designs! My photo shoot of her gorgeous dresses are now on Facebook!!


https://www.facebook.com/GillianRosemaryDesigns?fref=tck

Fashion photography
Ballroom and Latin dresses
Outdoors.

Night and Day; Digital design & Illustrations

As the easter break is nearly over, I have been glued to the computer screen today to try and finish my digitally produced designs ready for printing next week. I needed to start looking the pattern on the garment, these are my first few illustrations to show how it might look. My illustrations are half drawn by hand and edited in illustrator and photoshop. I have included some design developments afterwards. These show the colours that are suitable for the high street (summer2013), as all of my designs for this project the initial drawing is from my sketchbook and then translated into digital designs.

Easter; Egg Chicks

This is a funny idea that I picked up on pinterest.com. The basic structure is a hard boiled egg with the yolk taken out, mashed up and put back in. Cutting off the top of the egg creates a small head. And the eyes and nose are placed in the yolk   :)

The Kaleidoscope Effect in Design

The Kaleidoscope Effect in Design


Design Development;

Lately I have been experimenting with scale, colour and motion in my work. I was inspired by a designer that came into uni to talk to us about using CAD effectively, specifically Ned Graphics and Adobe Illustrator. Whilst developing work with these programs I noticed I was losing the drawing style quality to my work, and therefore needed to bring a sense of texture and line back into my designs.
I have researched and developed my own work in relation to artists that use distortion, from the beginning of the project I have found this has worked well in my sketchbook and wanted to find a way to translate it into a digital design.
The Kaleidoscope effect can be created in a number of ways; these images are simply made in photoshop by cutting out a square, halving it into a triangle, then repeated 8 times round to make a square again.
All designs are developed from my own hand or cad drawings, two are made from light painting. An easy effect to create by setting a camera on a long shutter speed and drawing in the with a source of light.

NIGHT & DAY; design project

Night & Day

Hasn't February gone by quickly! As I haven't made any thing outside of uni this month I thought I would share some of my current textiles work.

Super short summary of my project so far:
The theme given to this project is 'Journey', I started by looked and observing my own day to day journey. Things that change such as my route to uni/town, and things that don't. An example I used for some that stays totally unique to me is my fingerprint.
I like the idea that life goes round in circles, in birth and death, in seasons, in patterns, or however you want to label it. I have sourced other influences to help me create two fashion collections for Summer 2013. Artists and designers researched so far include; MC Esher, Andy Goldsworthy, Henri Matisse, Mara Hoffman, Chloe, Hadley Holliday.

Two mood boards of my development work made specifically for my blog;

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Other Sketchbook work;