beginning our project 28th september

application of design brief regarding our summer work was given on the 28Th of September. from our research, we began getting into our groups and we were told what we have to do. the brief looked quite complicated but i hoped it would make more sense as the week went on. my group was Claire Greendale, zainab, Adele, Vicky wallace and Jess pike. Jess was not there on the first day so we informed her we had been put into our groups and we began on the work, putting together an A2 mood board so we could create four more individual research based on our summer work as a group. to the left hand side of the page is one of the research pages i did based on our group mood board. we decided to look at structured shapes, strong, bold colours, bright flowers and natural shapes. this combined made an interesting mood board and my research after this was more interesting.

from his personal research that was to be completed during the week we were then to begin designing for our group. we needed to design a designer diffusion brand. we needed a name. branding and mission statement to begin designing so we all had an established idea of what to design as a group as we had to make a coherent line that had combining features alongside our own personal line-ups.

as a group we decided to create 'impossible to define' as a designer difussion ine for miu miu we were using a slogan already linked with the brand. all this had been done in one week along side team talks, planning, preparation, and our own personal research. it was beginning to look like this brief would be hell.

we also had our first Enterprise lecture this week, i understand that enterprise is very important to designers and other creatives, and i think the lessons will be really helpful when thinking about business. our first lecture was quite interesting and it gave us a basic insight into what we need to know when thinking about setting up our own business's.

summer work 09

summer work? well we have been given our summer work for the next project and i know from last year that i need to do it before go back otherwise i will be behind before we start.

• we have to do 4 research pages


• a mood board based on the information we were given


• start a fabric file


• and produce brand research on a designer diffusion level

over the summer i have complete the brand research, i chose to look into see by Chloe, roksanda ilincic's new range for whistles and bcbg, i also looked at Stella Mc Cartney so i could compare the difference. along side my brand research was the designer research on miu miu, i really enjoyed looking into miu miu as its a brand i like for its playful clothing!

the fabric research file was quite difficult to compile and i had to wait until i had time to travel to fabric shops so i could get a wide range of fabrics. i don't know very much about the fabrics so I'm guessing i will have to look into it more.

i don't think the research i completed was as good as the research i was doing all of last year, certain aspects of my work lacked creativity. this is one of my summer research pages

i was more focused on the research aspect of our summer work.

this is an illustration form one of the first projects we did, and i was surprised some of my illustrations... i also liked some of the others but we can only have 15 images. too the right of the illustration os the first photoshop page i have ever made by myself. i felt it was an achievement and had reduced my research cutting and stciking time so i think it is an important piece of work.

being the first thing we made at college, even thought it was only manipulation of garments i

think this is one of my favourire pieces out of everything i have made because its interesting, weird, and i learnt how to use the button hole machine.

considering that i only learnt how to make a hat in 2 days i was very impressed with what i had achieved during this week, and i think the crash course really helped me to realise what i can achieve in one week.

looking back i am really proud of mkaing this dress, i only had the image to work from, and it did take alot of help but i managed to make something based on only what i had seen, it was the first time i had ever made anything like it so it was a turning point for me on this course.

i enjoyed the beginning of the year because i did more drawing for my research and this is one that i particularly liked for the buttoned down gathered up project.

this was my fashion art and cultre final image, i was really happy with this as it took alot of effort to find the right spot to take the photo and to have everything set up just how i wanted it. it was also very difficult to make models do things they dont want to, so in this case i am also proud of my powers of persuasion.

these are examples from my fashion art and culture project..my design sheets have developed and instead of having just drawings i now think about what i have designed and then quickly jot notes down so i can take that into consideration when i develop my designs and this helps me to produce more interesting work.

the market level research was also something i was proud of because it was quite indepth and

had lots of very usefull images.

im really happy with these 4 research and design sheets i think they show how my skills have improved through the year, how im now using samples for research and how i interact more with my research.

i chose this dress form my final interdisciplinary project because i made it using a new technique for me, designed it, and it worked relativly well!

tuesday 4th june

well today i have been helping the third years by modelling and it was fun!!!!!! it was also really good to go in and see what happened during a crit when we did the modelling 2 weeks ago, so i will roughly know in third year how prepared you have to be for the crit of your final line up.

monday 25th week 37

a very stress-full weekend, which involved taking that dress which wouldn't go back together and i lost a piece fantastic. but i finished making it, Monday today and all i needed to do was over lock the insides, put in the zip and finish off a few bits and pieces, binding and things like that making the front cover. so i'm glad i came in and got things sorted. so Tuesday like Monday was just finishing off day and doing the illustration. i am not happy with my illustration but never mind its not my strong point and i will have to improve it! i have also had to chose my pathway, and b it is. after the meeting on Tuesday morning i decided i would enjoy aspects of both but b would be more suited to me. thursday and of all the days my third year needed me today...a nightmare she overslept, her alarm broke!!! but nick and i got it sorted...we made the stand..sorted the fial block and generally ran around like headless chickens..but it was all worth it. so next week my only third year thing will be to help people model!

monday 18th may 09

after a small amount of stress this is basically the week before the hand in. so i went in to college today and moulaged my garment. i now know what I'm making. i just have to work the pattern out from the moulage which i imagine will be rather difficult so that's my job in college tomorrow. Tuesday was fun, i have to take my moulage apart piece by piece. and lay it all out so that as pattern pieces it worked, and thanks to the scrunched edges of my design, its rather difficult. this is going to be so much fun to put back together, in a new fabric. OK now i have made he pattern its a case of putting it all back together but i need to produce the metamorphosis affect that i wanted on the garment, and this went horribly wrong when i tested it again on the machine, but never mind. so i had to go back to the fabric shop and re-buy the fabric i needed to do the metamorphosis in a different way which to be honest i think will look better now. so i spent all of wednesday night making the metamorphosis section of my dress even thought it would only take an hour, never mind.

monday 11th may 09 week 35

right i have made more design sheets, i'm quite happy with how things are going, so fabric shopping time here we come! i have chosen a blue and white slightly stretchy fabric, which is based on the colours of my research for the 'seaside' i have also chosen a series of cotton candy pink fabrics which are completely out of my comfort zone but apparently this will help me work in new ways. hm. so tonight ill experiment with my fabrics and double check they fit into my research. wich they should as its all the seaside stuff, simmilar to my research page here! i will also be able to take them to college to do some metamorphosis on them!

Tuesday, bad day, well good day depending on how you look at it, a voluntary crit has lead me to believe that i need to basically start again with some design ideas and shapes. so all the design sheets i have done basically needs scraping, but its good as there is no point handing in work that i know isn't up to scratch. right, Wednesday, start again. so my mission today was to make a few more designs, that fitted in with what i had been told yesterday. i have decided moulage is the way forward so i will be doing that. Thursday was good helping the 3rd years it proves what you can learn! i have decided i definitely need to do so much more practical work, maybe make a could of bits and pieces over summer just to remember what we have been doing!