Perhaps because of the stress I've endured over the past few days (or perhaps due to my general laziness) I have failed in practically every area of my life.
Actually I think I'm being a little hard on myself. I have succeeded in completing the work I had to do for the hotel but in doing so I have neglected just about everything else.
As I sit here trying to complete my freelance work I find myself completely uninspired and terrified at the prospect of producing yet another half-hearted design. Yet even this fear has not propelled me into a frenzy of hard work. Instead I find myself drawing circles on my page in a lacklustre manner hoping that I may accidentally create something brilliant. Alas, this has not been the case so far.
I have turned to my blog in the hope that someone will suggest something genius that will pull me out of my slump. I have been given the following inspiration to help me BUT I have to create said designs by hand and considering my aforementioned laziness this would be quite difficult. Here in lies my dilemma! Please help!
Showing posts with label textile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label textile. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
No More Animal Skins!!!
Some of you may know that I have been designing animal prints for a London based textile company called Bay and Brown for some time now. I should mention that I don't design animal prints exclusively (they are occasionally punctuated with geos and textures) but it does feel like that sometimes!!
Lucky for me it looks like the animal skins are finally on their way out (some may argue they were never really in) which means that i can finally get what i feel is a well deserved break from them!
I was sent an image today of a dress and jacket combo by felder felder which is completely stunning! here it is......
So basically my job now is to interpret that design for the highstreet.
To me it looks pretty architectural so i figured i'd peruse the net for images of buildings. My idea was to find a fairly modern building and crop it down so that it could be mirrored and repeated. I found the Lloyd's building and figured it would be perfect since it has some pretty unusual shapes on it that would make the design interesting.
If you're wondering what the Lloyd's building looks like, check it out below.
So, what i've done here is pretty simple, i just changed the colour mode of the image above left to grayscale and simplified it using the levels with Photoshop.
After cropping and mirroring the image i re-coloured it to create the final design. This was a pretty quick one, it took all of about 10 mins but it served as a good visual for me to work from when i came to transfer the design to silk with dye and discharge.
If you're new to my blog and are wondering what the hell discharging could possibly be aside from a description of poor health please click here to find out more!
Lucky for me it looks like the animal skins are finally on their way out (some may argue they were never really in) which means that i can finally get what i feel is a well deserved break from them!
I was sent an image today of a dress and jacket combo by felder felder which is completely stunning! here it is......
So basically my job now is to interpret that design for the highstreet.
To me it looks pretty architectural so i figured i'd peruse the net for images of buildings. My idea was to find a fairly modern building and crop it down so that it could be mirrored and repeated. I found the Lloyd's building and figured it would be perfect since it has some pretty unusual shapes on it that would make the design interesting.
If you're wondering what the Lloyd's building looks like, check it out below.
So, what i've done here is pretty simple, i just changed the colour mode of the image above left to grayscale and simplified it using the levels with Photoshop.
After cropping and mirroring the image i re-coloured it to create the final design. This was a pretty quick one, it took all of about 10 mins but it served as a good visual for me to work from when i came to transfer the design to silk with dye and discharge.
If you're new to my blog and are wondering what the hell discharging could possibly be aside from a description of poor health please click here to find out more!
Saturday, July 2, 2011
New Designers 2011
Firstly i'd like to wish all UEL students good luck at New Designers 2011! I've been a bit slow on the uptake with this one but i hope everyone exhibiting in the first week had a successful show! I would encourage anyone with an interest in design to get down to the Business Design Centre some time in the next week and check it out! It's a great show and a fantastic opportunity for young designers so please go and show your support!!! :)
In other news i'm still working on the winter leaves this week and i'm pretty happy with the results! Take a look!
For more information about New Designers please see http://www.newdesigners.com/
You can also find work by UEL textile students if you've missed it at New Designers by visiting http://www.ueltextiles.com/ (you can also find my contact info in the archive section if u want it ) ;)
In other news i'm still working on the winter leaves this week and i'm pretty happy with the results! Take a look!
For more information about New Designers please see http://www.newdesigners.com/
You can also find work by UEL textile students if you've missed it at New Designers by visiting http://www.ueltextiles.com/ (you can also find my contact info in the archive section if u want it ) ;)
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