From my research and images taken I produced mood, visual and development sheets from these I took certain elements from my sheets like my waves, tentacles, sea urchins and coral pieces, I chose these as I thought they all looked really good together and it looked very ocean like. Also from visiting the shop I took inspiration from some of the colours and the fabrics used , the clients from the shop had asked for the product to be designed for spring/summer in monochrome (black, white and grey) and one single colour of my choice, therefore I could not use a wide range of colours like I usually try to use in my work.
Even though throughout this I was only limited to monochrome and one colour I still tried a variety of different fabrics to show what my design would look like on thicker and different textured fabrics. Although when I tried using devore velvet which I found quite troublesome as when I came to use to devore paste it was very thick and wasn't a very good consistency to screen print with, so I had to pull it through the screen as hard as I could for it to print onto my velvet, after that the devore did not show up very well and some bits were missing completely which was really disappointing because I enjoy using devore and seeing the outcome. Also I experimented with satin which turned out lovely the feel and finish on it was better than I expected it to be, I would have tried alot of other different types of thicker fabrics but I didn't want to stray too far out of the brief and try and stick to lighter materials which were suitable for spring/summer, not only would you not want to be wearing thick clothing in spring/summer you also wouldn't want to be wearing very dark clothing which brings me to my next point. During summer or spring you don't want to be wearing darker type of clothing so I tried to make my colour very natural, light and quite pastel like, I would have liked to try a wider variety of colours but with the constrainst of it having to be monochrome and summery I had to limit my options.
Whilst doing all of my processes I have looked into artists along the way that have inspired me, the first artist is Mariel Manuel her "Keep Your Eye On The Doughnut" collection was widely based on sealife/sea creatures she also uses light weight material as her collection is also based for spring/summer her patterns, colours and designs are beautiful and are very much how I imagine the people from Moo were looking for something similar to her designs. Another designer I looked at was Iris Van Herpen I was highly impressed by his crazy patterns and designs, he is a fabric manipulation designer and some of his work is so quirky which made me think that with this project it needed a little bit of quirkness/unique style as the product was going to Avant-Garde.
I took my final design from one of my development sheets as it look quite different and a little out there, I also thought it fitted the brief quite nicely with the colours I had picked and the design is a repeat pattern, my final piece is also very easy to reproduce as tracings are available for screens to be made but I already have screens made up, along side screens already been made up I have a recipe card for pigment inks to be easily made up without hassle or messing about. I have used different processes during this I have done a small weaving sample made out of non slip underlay for carpets, when woven together it looked very corally and I really liked the outcome out but it was quite difficult to do with it being quite thick and rubbery so pulling the sticks out was very hard to do. Fabric manipulation is also on the list I took a lesson to sit down and learn about how do it and it was a lot easier that I thought also it was very fun and I enjoy trying out new techniques, then finally and most obviously I did screen printing.
Throughout I've had my fair share of ups and downs my fabric manipulation was very well done and I found everything about it went quite smoothly. With the screen printing it had a lot of ups and downs first the bad part was that one of my screens was the opposite way round so after having to re-expose my screen everything went quite smoothly from that point on wards my screens lined up really well. Also as I mentioned earlier my devoring went quite badly and it didn't turn out as great as I wanted it to. Time mangement was very push and shove with this project as I missed a week with me going to London/Paris with college overall I think if I would have had that extra week there would have been certain things like put extra effort with my sketchbook as I feel that is defiantly the weakest sketchbook I have produced when in fact it should have been the best I have produced yet. On the plus side coming in on my days off to work in the print room have helped me out with my samples vastly, if I not have come in my days off then I wouldn't have found out the problem with my screen and I wouldn't have time to sort it out and my samples would have been catastrophically bad.
Working with a diary has helped me out massively being able to document my progress and seeing what has been done and what needs to be done has encouraged me to work on things that need to be done on days off and the use of my diary has made me thing about buying/making one for my next project to keep on top of things. Also working with someone outside of college has been really different to thing that i'm actually producing something for someone instead of just doing it for a normal everyday college project it's been really nice thinking that at the end of this project someone is having there work made into a dress and is going to be sold. Overall satisfaction of this is that I could have done a lot better if I would have tried to get more work done in the time given and next time for my final major project I will take into consideration of creating a diary and giving myself tasks and deadlines and sitting down when I get home and telling/writing down what I need to do the next day and in my spare time concentrating on experimenting in my sketchbook and doodling and getting general ideas down. Making notes in there and writing a lot more annotation.
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