Locating- Week 8

After creating my sample and design board for the combined processes part of the Bradford textiles competition, I started altering my designs for a fashion outcome. I thought that my designs would be more suitable for an alternative sports brand, fitting the market for ski and snowboard wear. I started to gather design flats of the garments I wanted to create and edited my designs on Photoshop to visualize what my designs would look like on the fashion garments. I created a whole range of ski/snowboard wear and accessories and I was actually really pleased with how these looked. I will be sending a main board with a sample and one fashion visualization on and another board with my whole range on to show my collection. I think that this worked really well because after doing a lot of contextual research on ski and snowboard wear that is currently on the market, I feel that my designs relate well to the common themes of neutral tones and contrasting bright colours with daring patterns. I feel that my work also portrays these elements. Here are some images showing my fashion visualisation boards that i will be sending away to the Bradford competition.

Locating- Week 7

I was quite pleased overall with the samples that I created in the print room this week. They all turned out quite well although one of them that I added iridescent foil to did not come out as well as I had hoped. I think this was because the lines I used for my motif were not as thick as they should have been. Next time I get a screen developed I will ensure that my motifs are thick enough. My favourite sample that I created was a one that I added white flock to. I have decided to enter this sample into the combined processes section of the Bradford textiles competition. For this I have created a board including my main sample and an image of my design in situ. Here are some images from the print room and of my Bradford combined process sample.

Week 8- Final week

After my final tutorial this week I was pretty pleased with were I am at with my project. I have completed all of my fabric samples, which I was worried, was going to take the longest amount of time. This week I am focusing on finishing and refining my final boards, choosing and mounting my final collection, finishing of my sketchbook and creating some example boards. I have finished my final boards and displayed them in a display folder because I thought that this was the most professional looking way to display them.

I have chosen these prints as my final collection because I feel that they are the most successful prints that I have done throughout the project. I also think that they sit well with each other as a collection.

After my tutorial Rianna advised me on creating new boards which displayed my designs on design flats, garment visualizations, some fabric details and some fabric samples. I created the boards on Photoshop and then by hand added the fabric samples. I am quite pleased with the way that these boards have turned out as I have never created anything like this before and at first I was quite unsure how to display them. Here are some examples of my boards

Overall I think that I have finished everything that I have needed to this week and I am on track for my deadline on Monday. I think that I have been quite organised throughout this project and I am really pleased with my time management. To help me sort out all of my work for the last week of this project I created my own personal day by day time plan to help me meet my deadline.