Evaluation Locating Project.

Branding Project.

Overall, I am very happy with the way this project inspired and intended for designer Issey Miyake developed and the final pieces that I created. I am glad I embraced the opportunity to create work focusing on fashion as a context, to develop skills and knowledge in an area I am not usually interested in doing. The strengths in this project where definitely my use of colour and the compositions in my samples, along with the experimental heat set processes that I used. I would love to have had the time to push those ideas much further and in a much more experimental way, as I feel that there is a lot further this could have been pushed and developed.

Self initiated project.

Looking back on my intentions written in my brief for this self-written project of work, I am disappointed that I did not succeed in producing work to the experimentation and standard that I aimed to do so. Sadly, unforeseen circumstances halted this development at a key stage of my sampling and affected my concentration greatly.  However, in my final samples there are some areas that I am pleased with and would have been great points to develop and experiment with much further. For example, I love the use of foil and flock that I have used in areas of the knits, which represent this idea of fragmentation and broken image that I began with at the start of my visual research. Also, I think that the use of cable ties would have been really interesting to experiment with as useful attachments and edges, along with giving a flash of colour communicating my ideas of different emotions in the strength and weaknesses in layers of the city.

Self Initiated Project- Final pieces.

 

Although these final pieces contain some successes, such as the flocking and foil printing and the contrast of yarn qualities and knitted structures, when thinking about my intentions for this unit of work, I have not succeeding in being as experimental and definitely not 3-dimensional as I'd have hoped. Due to unforeseen circumstances last week which affected my attendance as well as my concentration greatly, I lacked the development in sampling which I was hoping for to succeed in this project.

However, I am pleased with the fragmentation of imagery and quality, and the contrasting primary colours which represent my ideas pushed through this project my by concept. I also really like the use of cable ties as an embellishment in some of the pieces, which I think could have been developed greatly and used in interesting ways such as fastenings and attachments between pieces if they where to be displayed.

If i had the chance to develop this project further,  I believe that these pieces would be much more experimental an dinteresting to communicate my intended ideas to an audience. I would also consider scale and composition much more in accordance with my context, thinking much more about spaces or places and how these pieces would fit together to be displayed to communicate my intentions.

Monday 16th February.

Although the samples that I have created so far in development from my imagery for my self initiated project reflect some of the qualities that I have intended to represent and communicate from the start of this unit of work, I need to reconsider and be much more sensitive with my colour pallette, compositions and the qualities of yarn which I have been using using together.

My yarn choices can feel slightly acrylic in some areas of the pieces which is something that I definitly do not want, so a revision of these yarns is well needed.

Furthermore, I need to begin to develop the printed imagery that I have been wanting, to represent the segments of imagery throughout my visual research. To do this I will be using flocking and foil, whcih will communicate this segmentaion, but also add to the different qualities and different feeling which represent these different layers and emotions through the city.

Scale and communication is definitly something that I need to think about when creating these pieces due to my context.

I have had some success in finding a volunteering role, as I have been asked to assist as a volunteer at an event at Salford Quays titled "PixelPyros" on Friday 13th March. This is a really exciting opportunity for me due to my interest in this field.

Monday 2nd February.

Completion of branding project.

When looking at the final collection of fabrics I have created for this branding project aimed at Issey Miyake, overall I am happy with the outcomes. I am glad that I had the chance to experiment and aim my work at a different context, and I really enjoyed working with heat setting polyester, and I think that the final samples I produced using this technique are the most successful and interesting. 

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Personally, I think that my colour compositional work and the colours in my final samples are the most successful points of this unit of work. If I was to improve on this work, I would love to take longer in experimenting and pushing this heat set process, as I feel like it could develop into something really interesting and unusual.

Self Initiated Project development.

In hope to get the chance to develop and support my context for my whole practice as a student, I have been in contact and have applied for a volunteering role at Manchester Art Gallery. Having a passion for contemporary art and gallery spaces has drawn me to this, as I would love to pursue a career under this category and so this would be a fantastic opportunity to be involved in.

Screen shot of application for Volunteering Role Manchester Art Gallery.

In terms of my self initiated project, a second tutorial with Amy this week has been very helpful in decisions about yarn colour, quality and knit techniques I want to include in my pieces of knit.  I intend to reflect and interpret the concepts and ideas behind my visual imagery, through different textural qualities and techniques within my knit pieces. For example, representing the weaker structure of the city that has been effected by poverty and uneven distribution of economic growth with fine yarns- in the colours that represent the negative connotations (reds, oranges, blacks) and in contrast, representing the economic growth in the stronger layers and connotations of the city in much more fancy, smooth, flourishing yarns.  I love the idea of these pieces representing and changing through these different structures and qualities, communicating these different emotions as intended in my concept.

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.