Made in Jesmond Open Evening

We are having an opening evening at the shop Made in Jesmond this will take place on this Friday for industry and friends and family this Saturday. Please come along to see mine and classmates work.

Made in Jesmond Final Outcomes

Here are some photographs of my final outcomes for the live project with Made in Jesmond:

Scarf Number One

Scarf Number Two

Fell in love with feathers...

This module was very exciting, this was a live project with Made In Jesmond a local shop in Jesmond, Newcastle - www.madeinjesmond.blogspot.co.uk
For this module we had to research trend, product, branding and packaging. After researching we had to decide which product we would be making to sell in the shop. I decided to follow the trend, swallows and vintage birdcages. I then realised that this had been used a lot on the high street so after a few drawings i decided to look more at just feathers. After drawing one feather I fell in love and the level of my drawing was a lot higher. My final product was going to be two scarves which fell alongside each other.

This is the mood-board I produced to help me keep my mind set for the rest of the project.

I started drawing feathers using fine liner and pencil.

I was very happy with my end result when I was finished drawing.

                                                     

After I was finished drawing, I started to design a hand drawn repeat on tracing paper. Once I was happy with repeat I got this put onto a machine so I can start experimenting with colours.

Screen Printing

These are the colours I decided to use on my screen prints, using water based inks.

These are three samples I produced, I was testing colours to see if I was happy with the outcome, which I was, and I felt they worked well alongside each other.

After sampling individual feathers, I started to screen print the hand drawn repeat I produced. I decided on these two to be my final outcomes for my scarves. I didn't want them to be identical, but I wanted them to lie alongside each other well, so I decided on one scarf to be full of colour and the other to just include a light colour and the strongest colour in the palette, which I felt was the coral.

Close up of one final outcome print.

Subterranean - Samples & Final Outcomes.

Screen Printing

I started by screen printing some samples towards my final outcome, here are some photographs of the outcomes:

These two are the screen prints when I was using manutec dies, these give you a very limited colour palette and I wasn't happy with the colours I ended up with, as they were very dull.

I was happier with the outcome when I used water based inks, as these come with a white you can mix colours together to get the exact colour you are looking for, I also experimented with gold foil which I was really happy with and decided these would be the colours I would use in my final outcome.

Digital Printing

I decided to experiment with some digital prints, so I completed a hand drawn repeat and scanned this into the computer, and then started to refine it using Photoshop  I then scanned in some of my screen prints and started developing them by flipping and repeating them to make a whole new pattern. This was the outcome I ended up with:

I was extremely happy with the outcome so these ended up being my final designs, I added gold foil to areas and I then created two garment fronts with the material.

Pleated Skirt

Pleated Top

This was some left over material I had which I used as a sample with gold foil.

All done & dusted, ready for hand in.

Subterranean - Sketchbook Work

I haven't posted in a long time, been very busy with 2nd year projects so my next few posts will be a huge insight in my previous projects.

Subterranean
In this project we were given a list of themes to choose from and my chosen theme was subterranean, our final outcome was two-three garment fronts. I decided to look at designers such as Basso and Brooke, and look closely at rock layers and natural substances. Here are some photographs of my sketchbook work:

 Basso and Brooke - Fall 12/13

 I to a great liking to the naturally formed stalactites in caves.

 Small sketches, inspired from Basso and Brooke collection.

Various drawing techniques and medias. Drawing from rock layers & stalactites. 

Mark making using black fine liner, pencil and a black sharpy pen. Drawn from a photograph I took of an interesting rock I found. 

 I also decided to look at another natural form, icebergs  I didn't find them interesting so decided to look at them whilst melting. This gave a more interesting feel, here are some drawings.

After I was happy with the amount of drawing I started some development. I started to join various different motifs to produce a completely new one and this was the outcome.