February - 2016

ABIGAIL KNOTT

L6 UNIT X - DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

L6 UNIT X - DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

I have begun to scan in my drawings and play around with imagery in Photoshop. I realised that it might be easier for me to produce designs and immediately create visualisations so that I am able to see how my designs would work on fashion accessories such as bags. I am trying not to think too much about repeat patterns yet and focus more on the sort of designs I can produce in a A3 format especially for a product. This week I have spent some time trying to make samples of ba

L6 UNIT X - INITIAL RESEARCH

L6 UNIT X - INITIAL RESEARCH

In February I attended London fashion week to do some street photography, I gathered imagery of what people were wearing and noticed that there were a lot of big motifs, metallic leather and fur. After looking at WGSN I found that the trend for S/S 17/18 is reflective sheen and metallic. I think that I could use this to my advantage when creating a look book for my collections. This week I have been to the sea life centre and blue planet to gather photographs to begin drawing

L6 Practice Unit: Final Evaluation

L6 Practice Unit: Final Evaluation

Practice Unit Evaluation: Over the course of the Practice Unit, I have had a lot of ideas for which I have not had the time to explore to their full potential. After inspecting the moths in the archives at Manchester Museum, inspiration for techniques that I could incorporate in the print room became apparent - If I had more time, I would have liked to create a collection of samples influenced by my photographs, I think that using devore for the transparent wings and foils or

L6 Practice Unit: Development - Direction, Refelction

L6 Practice Unit: Development - Direction, Refelction

After playing around with imagery on Photoshop I found that I have started to create a new narrative of a ‘manchester jungle’, I feel that there is a lot behind this concept and that I could push it further if I had more time. I have started to introduce my hand drawn illustrations into my photographic imagery creating a series of windows that are swallowed by foliage, from this I created visualisations of bags with their broken windows and corresponding lining, to give the i

Recent Posts

Archive