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Creative Design Practices-Trends,Market Levels and Conatiner Culture

These are 4 images of trend boards to help me with my final Line-up for my Zara Collection, I had to do research 4 different trends for Autumn/Winter 08 and collect relevant fabric and colour swatches to go with the certain trend.

Images from Market Levels Research, I looked at different window displays and inside the stores taking notes.

Market Level Research:

After doing research on shops comparing different market levels by the quality of the material ,layout of the shop, prices, simple detailing on clothes,window display etc. I had to do a write up on every shop I had looked at.

Final Line-Up for Spring/Summer 09 'Zara'

Visit to the Thackary Museum for Research Work:

Images of My research work I started of looking at Architecture and then moved on to looking at skeletal images:

Creative Approaches To Fashion

The brief was container culture; we had a list of words/phrases and an artist to choose from. I choose the word ‘slash and burn’ and Hussein Chayalan as an artist. And as an end product we a to create a garment from plain garments: Shirt/blouse, one pair of trousers and one bag.

Out of studio work:
On a minimum paper size of A3, using different kinds of paper (wallpaper, brown paper etc. Draw using the following exercises

Continuous line with a felt tip
Drawing with your eyes closed
Draw with one hand you dont usually write with
Three different media on the same drawing
Attach a pen to a paint brush

AFTER READING WEEK:

Line & porportion
CAD manipulation of my work
Drawing dressed figures

These are images are drew using different techniques of drawing: black paper and white chalk & pen attatched to a paint brush. I then worked on these images on CAD.

These images are from my research work using slashed and burnt fabrics as garment on illustrations. As well as looking at Hussein Chayalan I also looked at Giambattista Valli.

These are my final images of my garment with 'it fell from the sky' as my inspiration.

Overall I enjoyed the brief , it was my first given brief at University. However It would have been a very successful project it I was more imagative with the word slash and burn and my final image aswell.

Digital Photography

I choose to study Digital Photography for my elective, as I have always been interested in photography. I really enjoyed my elective because I learnt how to use a digital SLR camera and using the studio. My elective was very useful; as I will use the techniques I have learnt in my future work.

Some of my favourite images I took and Studio Picture:

Some of the images taken from York:

Fashion Art And Culture

Brief:
Had a choice to choose to do research on Subcultures and Styles, The Urban Traveller or Cultural Communities/Identity and from the research and the lectures we had to an image and a fashion piece, which would be put on an online art gallery.

The module began with 3 lectures:

Lecture 1, 1900-1929
- Briefing of project
- Research into the subjects covered in the lectures
- Subject discussion with my study group.

Lecture 2,1930-1969
- Research into the subjects covered in the lectures
- Subject discussion in my study group.

Lecture 3, 1969 to present
- Research into the subjects covered in the lectures.
- Subject discussion in study groups.Briefing of Presentation

I enjoyed all the lectures, as it was interesting to learn about fashion history. After the lectures we had to decide on the subject we wanted to do research on, I choose to research on Cultural Identity as I thought it would be a very interesting subject to do research on and I also wanted to see weather it would work combining two cultures together because studying cultures and the meanings and messages behind certain cultures is very interesting. My main focus was on African tribes and Japanese Culture and at the end of my research I was going to create a garment that incorporated both African tribes and Japanese culture.

My Final images show that I linked both African tribe and Japanesse Cultures together, I used african print fabric to make a contemporary skirt with silk fabric. I also dressed my model with african Jewellery and made a fan in African Print fabric. To show the Japanesse link in my images and model I did Geisha Make-up on my model as I did research on the messages and meanings behind geisha make-up. Overall I liked the outcome of the pictures.

Working with a 3rd Year Student :Verity Smith

As Part of my PPD1, I was a design assistant to a third year student. I was contracted to work with the designer every Thursday from 30th April - 28th May. Overall it was fantastic experience working with the designer as I got a chance to see what It would be like If I was to work as an assistant to a designer and also what it's like to be a 3rd yr student.

Day 1
(30th April) :
Met the designer on the first day.

Tasks for the day: