Illustrations

At first we did not want to designate any specific jobs to anyone, especially when we came to using illustrations as we had not yet developed a style. However we knew that we wanted our illustrations to contain collage and colour blocking. We also discussed using our imagery to suggest garment shapes. I made some examples of our suggestions to visualise my ideas. For the final trend book all imagery will be that of our own.

Alice produced more hand drawn illustrations which we really liked but felt did not keep in theme with where the project was developing to. Grace however created more digital based illustrations which were more in keeping.

Containment - Jar

After our last tutorial with Laura and Alex, we were encouraged to create more 3D objects. We did some more research and wanted to establish a more science experiment style image. Grace and I carried out these experiments with dropping wax, milk, ink and water in the jars. We settled on the four jars below. Grace and myself did a test shoot first of all, then took the jars to university and photographed them in the stairways for an added diverse setting. We feel that these images have worked well however we do not want to use too many of the images as it could become repetitive throughout the trend book. We also agreed that these images could be used for any Art based context, as we originally planned to focus on fashion, we realised that we were narrowing our market down too much.

Style Sight Interview

After exchanging a number of emails with Helen from Style Sight, we arranged a suitable date and time to meet in London. I went to the Style Sight offices, and we had an informal meeting were I showed Helen & Hannah my latest project and we chatted about how I came to be involved with trends and art direction. Although I was quite nervous for the meeting I enjoyed being able to talk about something I am passionate about with people who feel the same, I won't find out till May if I have received an internship, however even if I do not, I feel that I have accomplished and learnt a lot already from this interview. I learnt to be more confident about my own work and to be prepared for any questions, although I felt that the interview went well, these are areas that can continuously be worked upon.

Iris Van Herpen

Iris Van Herpen is one of the most forward thinking designers within the fashion industry, I believe this as after the Sally Denton talk, as she highlighted the major effect that 3D printing is going to have on the future of fashion. Van Herpen has curated this 'Bio piracy' collection, which asks the question 'are we still the sole perpetrator of our bodies?' this collection was put together with the help of Lawrence Malstaff who concentrates on the interaction between biology and physicality, this is something my group and I would like to make a connection between. Another interesting aspect of this collection is their 'vacuum packed' concept, creating an embryonic environment for the model, literally by vacuum packing them. I find it interesting that even though 3D printing is not completely fully established yet, the collection remains high end and does not lack in quality, as a group we would like to create inspiration for a high end market, I will keep the Iris Van Herpen brand in mind when constructing the trend book.

Joanna Vasconcelos

Today Alice, Grace and I went to Manchester Art Gallery as we had decided that we needed a lot more visual, tangible research and inspiration to really be able to push our project further. This led to going to visit the Joanna Vasconcelos 'Time Machine' exhibition, which was extremely inspirational. What the group and I specifically found we could relate the exhibition and our own work was the vast colour that has been used and the array of textures used. There was a new texture or colour at every different angle you looked at her sculptures; this is something we would like to reiterate in our own work.

A Daily Dish - Klari Reis

When doing some further research after the tutorial with Laura, I wanted to look further into the petri dish idea that we had. I thought this would be an exciting avenue to explore as each outcome is different and it could create some inspirational imagery. I stumbled across Klari Reis who in 2013 revisited an idea that she had in 2009 called ‘The Daily Dish' this idea was to post a different petri dish painting everyday of the year 2013.

Her paintings are really interesting and take on cellular forms. This is an interesting take on the use of a petri dish, the idea of a scientific container with art inside is more intriguing than just another science project. Her work is exciting as she uses a mix of vibrant colours and no two petri dishes are the same.

Print Room: Seer Sucker

We wanted to further develop our recent experiments with the ice and microwaved soap; we wanted to portray this with the use of fabric as we felt that the soap had taken on a cloud-like structure. Alice took some natural based fabrics into the print room and used the Seer Sucker technique to create a chemical reaction within the fabric. The reaction was not how we expected to the naked eye however once we scanned the fabric, it became more relevant to our project. We decided not to continue work in the print room as it was not working for us and was simply wasting time.