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.

Week 7- Print room

I have been in the print room this week trying out a couple of techniques on top of my digitally printed designs. I started by pigment printing using a very light blue colour over the top of pink and white fabric. I printed my motif and when the ink dried it created a very subtle see through effect on the fabric and I was really pleased with this. I also printed my motifs using black pigment ink to create bold patterns. My favourite technique I used in the print room was foiling. I have never used this method before but I thought that it may work quite well on the type of prints that I had designed. I was really pleased with the way the foils turned out. I think that it created a very subtle shine to my fabric which worked really well because I used a dark lead colour foil. I was initially worried that adding foil would make the fabric look cheap or tacky but I think as I used such a small amount it created the exact effect that I was aiming for. Here are some examples of my printed fabrics

After my tutorial this week I was glad with the response I got from my print room samples. I also realised that I needed to start visualizing my prints on garments. I started creating some boards which showed my clothes in a contextual way. I also created a garment flat board visualizing my prints on design flats. Below are some examples of my garment visualization boards.

Week 6- Development

After my tutorial on Monday morning I started to think more about contextualizing my work more and creating a consumer that would suit the type of prints I am currently designing. After compiling a list of certain things that I thought suited my consumer I started researching images of a certain type of person. When I found the right images I created a consumer profile board so anyone looking at my work can easily see the type of person I am aiming my designs at. This is my consumer profile board

This week I also created some more digital designs on Photoshop. I feel like these are more developed than the first prints that I created so I also sent them to the digital fabric printer. I had these printed on Habotai silk so that they sat nicely with my other prints. I was quite pleased with the fabric that I chose to print them on because I feel that it reflects the floaty fabric style that I was trying to portray. Here are some examples of my printed fabric samples