Design & Realisation PT302
Design Proposal
For this module I will be designing for fashion fabrics. I will be continuing the theme form the last module, which was mainly based upon seashells. I will be altering the theme slightly and working upon it to give it more depth and substance. I will broaden the base idea to a more general topic of coastlines which will give me an excellent starting point for image collecting, a vast range of colours and textures to work from, from which I can then choose and work down into a varied, yet succinct palette to work with. By changing my theme slightly, by broadening it, I hope to overcome problems encountered in my last project.
Visual research is key to the success of this work and so I will be drawing from a wide range of imagery, for example harbours/ ports, seaweed, barnacles, lobster pots, fishing nets…there are many unexpected points of interest in this area and this will provide some exciting visual research. I wish to use a varied palette of drawing media, such as pencil, ink, watercolour, collage and Photography will be a key element in image collecting, and also I will collect articles found on the shore to draw from and use for inspiration.
The spring/summer ’08 designs from Zac Posen bears some similarities to the work I produced in my last module: Prints focusing on the use of colour and placement in a ‘painterly’ fashion. This is a large trend for the upcoming season, and whilst I could have explored more avenues in my last project, I would like to have the opportunity to continue this ‘painterly print’ style (through using direct printing with acid dyes and digital printing) but combined with more structured patterns and shapes, using both digital media and print techniques.
One of the pieces I produced in the last module.
Zac Posen S/S '08
There is a heavy nautical/ marine influence this season in several areas of design, eg, interiors, fashion and greeting cards. This theme is often used sparingly to avoid overkill; inspiration being drawn generally from shapes, for example, Sprout Home’s brass urchin candleholders, or Michele Oka Doner’s reef glass bowl:
Often with this marine/coastal theme, colours tend to be dark blue, red and white. Fred Flares pin buttons are a good example of this:
Whilst these are catchy and are so connoted to this theme that they instantly, simply, call out, I want to avoid these colours. I wish to explore my own colour palette thoroughly. For me, colours are a large part of the design process, they are very important. It is key to success, choosing and working with colours that are right. Also, with this colour scheme, designs tend to be ‘naïve’, I wish to create a more sophisticated collection, with less blatant associations.
Coastal towns such as Scarborough, Filey, and Redcar will be invaluable venues for research. The beauty of visiting such venues for primary research is that on any given day, there will be a multitude of textures, colours and patterns to explore, and these will change from minute to minute, giving an unending and limitless supply of research and influence.
Books such as Ernst Haeckel’s ‘Art Forms From the Ocean’ will be useful for reference and inspiration, as will online blogs such as DesignSponge and the Print & Pattern blog. Magazines such as Vogue are invaluable for trend updates and catwalk shows.
I would like to continue to explore, where appropriate, with the direct form of printing using acid dyes that I used in the last module. I would like to combine this though, with digital media, to accomplish a more structured and solid design. The use of laser cutting could very well be an appropriate technique to explore in this work. I began experimenting with fabric manipulation within my last work, this is an idea I would like to continue. I was working primarily with pleating fabric, and I feel that this could be developed much further, along with other manipulation techniques, to create tactile, creative, and striking fabrics. Shelley Fox is a designer/artist who utilises fabric manipulation techniques to create innovative textiles:
I aim to design fashion fabrics, aimed more towards a luxury market rather than perhaps, high street. I do not anticipate that these fabrics will be suitable for everyday wear. The context in which these fabrics will be used is yet undecided, eg, whether for clothing- dress, skirt etc, or accessories, eg scarves, bags etc.
Janet Stoyel is a textile artist who uses innovative technology and techniques to create fabrics, which she then creates into scarves. An idea from my last project was how the colours and patterns were affected by different positions, and movements, so the idea of creating scarves with my fabric is appealing, due to the fact they will be open to a variety of changing positions, which will in turn, affect the colours and patterns.
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