Surface Design for Fashion...

Mood board:

Drawing sheets:

Paper layouts for garment shapes:

Final Fashion Fabrics:

Work all ready for submission:

Surface Design for Fashion: Sneak Peek!

Moodboard
Trend - Garden Crop 

New Blog Post

Sorry I haven't posted in a while.. Been busy, busy, busy! I've just finished my first module of second year: Surface Design for Interiors. We've been working with a company called Trend Bible. Unfortunately I can't post any photos or information on what I've been doing, but hopefully I will be able to post something soon! 

Summer Sketchbook...

Here are a few photographs of my summer sketchbook so far. The theme is Inspiration so I have started with flowers as they are my main inspiration within my work...

Introductory Surface Design - Part 2...

For this part of the module we had to pick a period style which we were wanting to use within our work. I chose Rococo as it is my favorite period style...Above are my rococo influenced visual research sheets.

From these visual research sheets we had to design repeat patterns for our furnishing fabric. All of my designs are half drop repeats but some of them have different repeat sizes depending on the imagery I have used within them.

Once I had chosen which of the above designs I wanted to produce into a furnishing length, I had to create my design in repeat by drawing it repeatedly onto graph paper.

From the graph I then had to produce a koda-trace which is then exposed onto a silk screen ready to be printed onto my 3 metre length. Below are some photos of my koda-trace and screen.

Here is my final 3 metre printed furnishing fabric....

Introductory Surface Design - Part 1...

  
On all of my embellished garment shapes (above) I have used hand embroidery on the petals/ flower heads as well as using machine embroidery on all the stems/leaves.