Florals/ Print Inspiration

Stella McCartney SS 2012

 

 

Stella McCartney's Spring/ Summer 2012 collection is one of my favourites. I enjoy the scale in which these prints work, and the specific placements of the floral design. The contrast in different types flowers and their colour work so perfectly together, with subtle hints of background design (not above, bottom left). The photographic elements is something that I would really like to produce in my own prints. 

 

  

 

Abigail Borg

 

 

Abigail Borg is one of my favourite textile designers due to how raw her work is. Drawing has been a vast contributing factor to me wanting to try print, and I feel that Abigail's work reflects the way in which I'd like to work. Interiors has always been my main focus when working on designs, (whether this be in print or weave, or even both combined). Abigail's prints are large in scale and the colours are very overstated. Her designs make a bold statement within interior design.

 

 

 

Camilla France

 

I came across Camilla Frances whilst searching floral designs on Pinterest. Again, photography is playing a vast part in her work, but I've mainly found myself looking towards these designs for colour inspiration. Acidic colours have always captured my attention when researching, and I feel that colours similar to these could be interesting to take into interiors for wallpaper and upholstery.

 

 

 

Self Initiated Proposal: Floral Design For Interiors

I plan to create floral print designs for interiors, specifically wallpaper and fabric for upholstery. Due to arriving in print very late and having no experience with any of the techniques or processes, I do not plan on having a final collection of samples, but instead to experiment as much as possible and create a body of visual research and design ideas. Ideally, if I was to have longer from this project, I would have liked to create some Jacquard samples where I could be much more illustrative with my designs. One of my reasons for trying print was due to being restricted in my drawing skills; consequently I am looking forward to utilising, experimenting and developing my drawing ability. I believe photography is a vital element of this project, not only to draw from, but to also take colour inspiration. I plan on making contact with local florists to take some inspirational photographs. I plan to experiment with a range of bright, acid colours mixed with luxurious dark tones, which I feel will bring me out of my ‘colour comfort zone’. I hope to take a very simple, illustrative approach to make the most of my drawing skills.
   

 

Abigail Borg- Illustrative Textile Designer

 

 

 

Abigail Ryan Rose- Illustrative Textile Designer

 

Due to changing my area of specialism, there is an unclear link between previous works, however, I would like to stay within Interiors which has been a running theme with all of my earlier projects. I’d like to see my designs stocked in commercial stores such as John Lewis and Debenhams, targeting the younger (20-30s) interiors market. To bring my designs into my previous work, I plan on creating designs in two different colour ways, where I have used my initial live brief weave colour palette.


 

Live Brief: Tigerprint

After a couple of weeks of struggling to produce sketchbook work and ideas for the live Wallace and Sewell brief, I finally spoke to Lesley about my options. We spoke about how much I miss drawing and being illustrative within my work; an aspect of design that weave limits. We finally came to the conclusion that maybe I should be working within Print (which I've not actually tried yet), to allow me to be more free with my work. This will be a challenge as I am now so behind in terms of time management.

To start this journey, I have decided to do the Tigerprint live brief that focuses on floral prints for gift wrap, gift bags and tags. I feel that eventhough we are a considerable amount of time through this project already, I am so much more enthusiastic and motivated to work towards this. I'm hoping that my current Photoshop skills will carry me through this project to create floral digital prints. In terms of weave, I would still like to cross over the subjects and do some work on the Jacquard loom will is a much more illustrative way of weaving.



 

Live Brief: Collage Development

 

 

I started off my design journey by creating some hand rendered collages from found papers in my colour palette. These worked really well as I was able to physically alter the proportions, shapes and sizing of the pieces. I enjoy these as abstract designs, but I need to considerably develop this idea to be able to transfer them into weave. I feel that I have made the right choice in my colour palette, as this gives me so much to work with. I am happy in the way that my ideas and concept has initially started to develop.

 

 

 

 

I have taken inspiration from Matisse and Emily Tilzey's techniques and style (noted in my inspiration book) for these pieces of work. I expect that these artists will play a continuing part of my journey.

 

 

 

Matisse

 

 

Emily Tilzey

 

 

 

 Photoshop Collaging from Photographs 

 

 

Life Brief: Initial Ideas and Concept

I am basing my live Wallace and Sewell brief on a [screen-print]collage by Atelier Bingo, previously noted. Looking into the definition of Collage enabled me to put my concept into perspective.

 

1. An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and colour.

2. The art of creating such compositions.

3. An assemblage of diverse elements: a collage of conflicting memories 

 

I noticed on the W&S website that they produce patchwork cushions, and I would like to expand these interior products by making patchwork throws. The idea of a patchwork throw will also physically demonstrate my concept of 'Collage', by putting together an assemblage of patterned and plain proportioned samples. I would like to take inspiration by the placement and mis-placement of everyday landscapes. These could be a small series of Limited Edition throws for the company, with a change of colours per pattern.

 

Live Brief: Colour Palette/ Chosen Painting

 

After spending some time looking through all my references (refer to Inspiration Journal), I finally decided that Atelier Bingo was the right artist for me to focus my Wallace and Sewell brief on. I feel that as a collage artist, he reflects my style at the way that I work individually.

 

 

 

After spending some time painting up a few of my favourite pieces' colour palettes in Photoshop, my decision is to going with the collage below. I feel that the colours demonstrate retro vibes, which is an aspect that I'm particularly interested in within textiles. In terms of reflecting on the brief given by Wallace and Sewell, the amount of colours would cater to their needs and style. I now plan to start considering my warp and the type of yarns I'd like to use.

 

 

Live Brief: Choosing a 'Painting'

 

Initially I struggled to find a painting that I liked enough to use throughout the entire period of the Live Brief. I resolved this by emailing Lesley and enquiring as to whether I could interpret a painting as any piece of art, specifically a collage, (to which the answer was yes). After narrowing down many of my favourite artists, these are a select few that I'm considering to use.

 

Eugenia Loli
 

 

 

 

Eugenia is a Greek collage artist that now works in California. She experiments with visual narrative through a collection of images. I like the range of colours and often the underlying message within Loli's work. This may be something quite interesting to experiment with the theme of one of Loli's pieces as an underlying topic to my own project.

 

Richard Hamilton

 

 

Richard Hamilton is a 1950/ 60s collage artist. I enjoy Hamilton as an artist because his works are all memorable classics. I love the techniques that Hamilton uses within his work, and I'd definitely like to consider using a lot of collage within my work.

 

 

 

Storm Thorgerson

 

Storm Thorgerson was an English Graphic Designer, well known for his work of album covers (Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and Biffy Clyro to name just a few). Thorgerson liked to temper with reality, where a lot of his work would start with photography. Maybe Thorgersons' work wouldn't be so great to work from due to a limited colour palette.
 

 

 Atelier Bingo

 

 

I only came across Atelier Bingo (Max and Adele from Paris), when I was searching through and making a Pinterest board for this project. They make contemporary collages and screen prints with a vast array of colours. I feel that their work would be perfect due to the sheer amount of colours, but also to take inspiration from the techniques that they use. 

 

Kenzo Advertisements

 

 

The Kenzo Advertisements came to my attention on Pinterest when in search of block colour pieces of art. I love these adverts due to their colour clashes and quirky themes. I feel that these would be interesting to translate into my own design development in terms of blocks of pattern.

 

 

Matisse

 

Henri Matisse is a French artist known for his use of colour. These specific pieces are a cut- out collages. In terms of colour (a very important aspect of this live brief), Matisse only tends to use a select few within his works. This may be very limiting to take inspiration from for my weaves; however, I may want to take inspiration from his processes.