New Designers

Had such an exciting time last week at New Designers at the Business Design Centre London!

Samples

Sampling

After reviewing my designs I decided to experiment with a different colour pallet and different scale. My colours have been heavily inspired by the artist Leon Bakst, who painted illustrations for the Ballet Russes, I came across his work through researching Paris and the late 1920's. To add diversity to my designs I changed the scale of the lace.

Final project research continued

During the sampling stage of the project I could see my designs taking a vintage direction with the chosen colour pallet that I was using combined with the style of lace and cast iron being very delicate. Hand mixed dyes; manutex printing dyes and discharge print have been used to create this sample, inspired by the mood board that I had put together.

Mood boards

Here are a couple of mood boards I put together during the first stages of the project with a combination of my own photographs, art work and images that inspirational images that I had collected.

Trip to Paris

A lot of my inspiration for my final project has come from a trip to Paris that I went on in February this year. I was so inspired by the city and the beautiful cast iron design that can be seen all over, especially on the Metro and within the architecture, extravagant but yet sophisticated.   Here are a few photographs I had taken during my time there.

Final Major Project

I really enjoyed prepearing the drawings to go onto my screens. 8 screens needed in total

What Lies Beneath silk scarf design

Here I am in Ferens Art Gallery Hull with my work. This was a set competition brief; the challenge was to design something that had been inspired by the ancient archaeology items that are in the East Riding Museum. My inspiration for this canvas piece was the roman jewellery that I saw in the museum; from there I started to look at the jewellery that I own. Women wear jewellery to adorn themselves and so I had created this design with the intension of it being a silk scarf as scarves are often warn for the same reason as jewellery. This design is a mirror repeat done with polyprint dyes and discharge print screen prints.

My inspiration for these fashion fabrics came from the textures and shape found in trees, feathers and birds. The dip dyed colour effect influence came from investigating the colours in the sky during sun rise and sun set.