This Week...

At the beginning of the week Hallmark came in to view all of our work and give us some feedback. It was a bit nerve racking having a one-to-one interview with them to talk about our work, but they were very lovely and I think they put everyone at ease! They picked 4 people for work-experience too which was amazing! The people that got chosen well deserved it and had done some gorgeous work!

This vintage light by Curiosa & Curiosa is just beautiful! I want one!

 

Since then I have been cracking on with my research for the next module. I have decided on a trend from Mix magazine. 'Tender' is one of the trends they have picked out for Autumn/Winter 2012/13 and looks at late 18th and early 19th Century design with key words like 'elegant', 'genteel mannered' and 'romantic'. It has a lovely colour palette of pinks, blues and greys. Some of the design inspirations for this trend have come from Richard Brendon's range of Reflect china, old fashioned cubed soaps from Arlatep and Surfacephilia's Embelli wall jewellery.

Love this tea-set by Epha3 

I plan to bring in lots of floral details and make it lovely and pretty. I'v got a bit more research to get done, but am really looking forward to start drawing again!

Relief!!

By the skin of my teeth I managed to get all my Gift work done and presented by Friday afternoon! It's such a relief to hand it in, I think everyone has worked so hard on this module, there is lots of lovely work to see!

Come Monday we'll be starting our next module, no rest for the wicked! I am looking forward to it though as it's our individual options, so we can have a free reign to do anything we like.

I think I have finally come to the decision that I'll be doing interiors. I think I'll do something really feminine this time too! I feel like I have been quite geometric and masculine with my trends this year so I'm going to do something lovely and gorgeously pretty this module!

Hopefully next week I'll be able to get some pictures up of the inspirational things I find! Can't wait to start searching!

The Art of Gift

I have found gift a hard one to get into, hence no posts about it! But I think I'm getting there now.

We're working with Hallmark for this module, they have provided us with our Trend options - yet again more secrecy! But all the options are inspiring and I'm sure there will be some lovely outcomes.

The Trend I have chosen is aimed at the male market, as with all the modules we've had this year I have wanted to try something new.

We have been working on multi-directional repeats this week, which I loved! I've been busy on the computer mixing up colour-ways for my gift wraps and am starting to get ideas for cards and products. So we'll see how I get on!

Surface Design for Fashion....Done!

So I have finally finished my four final garment shapes this week, it feels so good to have got it all done in time! I managed to get lots of fabric manipulation done on them and tried out lots of different dye techniques, so overall I am pretty pleased!

Back in the Print Room with Olivia
hand dying Silk for my final garments...

 


Here is a little sneak peek at my final ideas... lots of colour and 3 Dimensional fabric manipulation...

It's also getting pretty close to our Paris trip now and we're all very excited! Not only that we might have a chance of exhibiting at Indigo Paris this year but also to have a bit of a break to explore and do some shopping!! Can't wait!!

This Week...

I recently mentioned that we were doing a project for Trend Bible... well I must have done something right because they have chosen my work along with six others to go in their trend book for 2012/13!! It's such a good opportunity, I'm so pleased my work got chosen. So after a little drama last week with a painful neck I managed to print the four samples needed... fingers crossed I get some good feedback!

Having handed in our furnishings project last week, we started our fashion module on Monday. We have been asked to choose our own trend to follow which gives us a bit more freedom to go in any direction we like. I will be following the WGSN trend for Spring/Summer 2013 called 'Wonderlab'... I will be taking my inspirations from cells and artificial colours, looking at all the shapes and textures to hopefully produce garments with lots of fabric manipulation. I'm still in the early stages of drawing from my primary research but when I have some samples started I will make sure to put some pictures up!

Paris here I come...!

If our planned Uni trip to Paris and Indigo this coming February wasn't exciting enough, I've managed to get myself a place helping on the stand! I'm sure it will be a bit scary at first, but what an experience getting a chance to talk to all the buyers and traders! I've just got to hope my work gets picked to be on the stand too now! Eeek!

If you want to have a look at what its all about, or maybe have a sneaky peek at some of the exhibitors follow the link:

http://www.indigo-salon.com/

Update ...

So after a lovely summer of travels to Thailand and surfing in sunny south Wales I'm back at uni to begin my second year. It's been a bit full-on and stressful after a relaxing 2 month break! It has definitely taken me a bit of time to get back in the swing of things, but I'm slowly getting there.

We have just been given a very exciting project working with 'Trend Bible', it's all very hush hush though so will have to give an update on that at a later date!

I am loving being back at college and am excited to get blogging again!