Week Eleven

This week further sampling has taken place in both the print room and digitally, I wanted to make sure my compositions for my screens designs worked well together as a collection; complimenting one another whilst showing variation but also test that the processes I wanted to use were well suited to my designs.

Original Sample

Aside from this I’ve reused one of my initial print samples from very early on, at the time I thought the fabric and colours used were more suited to a fashion context so I thought why not go with this… I have taken part in the Bradford live project designing a fashion print, Mary Katrantzou inspired me particularity with her Topshop range of bold busy prints, I was interested how she adjusts such bold designs so they are ready to wear. 

Mary Katrantzou

I digitally manipulated my fabric print and considered it suited to a garment that is almost used as an accessory (a Kimono) where people who wouldn’t necessarily wear prints would be more likely to consider being more daring making it appeal to a wider audience than say a brightly patterned pair of trousers. 

I found it really helped me working digitally, seeing how quickly different colourway’s can be tested is a method I can carry across into my screen designs saving much more time than if I was to screen print every colourway experiment. 

Bradford Live Project

Although my particular design is in repeat I found the different requirements of when designing a fashion print interesting, the width of fabrics vary to interior designs and the repeat only needs to happen at the top and bottom of a print not necessarily along the seam too. 

I think it’s important I understand these different requirements for when I’m working in the design industry, considering everything I’ve learnt from this live project shows designing to a different context and working in a different method has proved very valuable.