Monday 26th January.

This week has been heavily focussed on my branding project for Issey Miyake due to the deadline for completion being next week. I recieved positive feedback in todays tutorial on the imagery I have produced and the sampling which I have produced this week. I'm really happy with the way that my colours have come along from the paper folding and inky photoshop work I have done, and these qualities are transferring well into my samples.

I will continue to experiment and reflect these colour proporations and quality within my final collection of samples.

 The polyester yarn that I have been using is working well, and I really like the shiny and soft feel it gives to my samples. Furthermore, it holds the heat set shaping really well and this is a  tecnique I will defintily be using a lot of within my final collection due to its success. This could be developed and experimented with in many different ways, in different shapes and sizes which is exciting.

Photoshop Colour work.

Domestic E-Wrap technique.

Dubied Pleating.

I would also like to develop this pleating technique on the dubied machines, as I think that the way it reflects my brand Issey Miyake is very succesful, and also compliments the other techniqes I have been experimenting with. I intend to experiment with different types of pleating, and the colour proporation within the pieces.

Monday 19th January.

Over Christmas, I spent time exploring the city and capturing contrasts through photography and drawings as a starting point for my visual research for my self initiated project. I'm happy with how this went, as the process of exploring the city and recognising things that are usually overlooked when walking through the fast pace of the city is a really interesting and inspiring practice.

Sketchbook development of imagery page.

Example of creating coloured textural pieces.

 I am keen to use this imagery in an abstract way, as I don’t want my visual research to become very structures and building like, as previous work contains a lot of that type of imagery. Instead I would like to focus much more on developing into these images with colour, and dissecting them into segments of interesting line qualities and textures. These fragments of imagery will be as important where they are not (empty spaces/transparencies) as where they are, as this distortion and absence reinforces and suggests my concept.

Fragemented image weaving using colour connotations.

In terms of the branding project, I have made a decision that the brand I will be focusing on and creating a collection of samples for will be Issey Miyake. This has come from an interest and inspiration that I have always had from the work of Miyake, and my love for structural fabrics. I am particularly fond of the s/s15 collection, due to this new heat set process Miyake has discovered, and so I will be focusing on using my own version of this with my knitted fabrics.

Brand Awareness Board.