Minor Project - Theme: Thailand & Vietnam

Primary research: Thailand & Vietnam 

Product: Interior fabrics for furnishings

Mood board

Primary research 

Pattern making, using a Thai fruit - Rambuton and ink, as well as pencil drawings, watercolours and ink studies.

Ink drawings

More ink drawings and oil pastel studies

A combination of pencil, watercolour, monoprint, ink and acrylic studies

Timed and blind drawings as well as ink and water studies

Lino printing onto different materials using a range of earthy colours

Blind drawing with washable inks then manipulating with water and stitch

Observational drawings

This is an ongoing project and will continue into my 'Final Major Project'

which will be my last ever project that i will complete at CCAD

I look forward to developing my drawing into prints and patterns for interior furnishing fabrics.

Tanfield Railway inspired cushions

Digitally printed cushions with hand embroidery, embellishment and foiling via screen print, based on studies from Tanfield Railway (County Durham), the place that I like to call:

"The Train Graveyard'

Initial mood board & end product board, massive inspiration taken from "Flavor Paper" an American wallpaper printing company, and other textural interior products found on Etsy.com

Drawing sheets, collaged with different media to try and capture the textural qualities within my primary research.

A developmental sketchbook page showing colour ways and sampling.

A mixture of textile sampling, including embroidered, foiled and embellished pieces.

The final products!

I have photographed the finished cushions in in the same location as where the ideas originated, with wild plantation and rusty metal to enhance the contrast of the delicate cushions against the rough outdoors.

Completion!

I have finally completed and handed in both projects for my module "Digital applications for surface design" here is some of my completed work:

Gift wrap work

I have been working hard on my gift wrap ideas and hope that my original ideas will appear interesting and not too 'different'.
I would love to wrap my Christmas gifts in these prints with some nice gold foil ribbon and gift tags.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The beginning of card and gift...

Here is some of the photographs I have taken at a reptile centre (Blaydon Exotics), I have tried to capture all of the textural qualities within the reptile skin and fish scales.

 I have began experimenting with some prints I have done using real snake skin and inks, I have been repeating, transforming, adding colour and changing the size and layers of the patterns on Photoshop to get a few starting points. 

Single layered repeat

 

Double layers with change of colour

 

3 layers, 3 different colours

Painted gold snakeskin scanned in, cropped and repeated

 

Colour change using 'colour balance'

This is my photograph of a reptile that I firstly transferred onto watercolour paper using the screen-wash technique. Then I have scanned the image into Photoshop, cropped it and then repeated and rotated it to create an all over print.

This is the above image but with 3 overlapping layers (lowering opacity) to create a blurry effect.

 

UPDATE!

My first two final A2 fabrics have been printed and I am so excited to start embroidering and foiling into them!



Sorry about the quality of the image!

I am going to add foil to the left print and embroider into the piece on the right.


Here is an update of some of my fabric samples too...

 

 

I will be continuing to work into my final samples whilst also working on my card and gift designs so this is going to be a busy project!

Inspiration for card & gift

Rekha Athi

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom price - Designer & Sculptor

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Folding Maps Company

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas Albdorf - Sculptor and Photographer

 

 

 

I have chosen to research unusual designers from a range of different fields instead of other card designers, in order to come up with original ideas that may not have been seen in the card and gift industry before.

My aim in this project is to create texture through my drawings into development on Illustrator so I am starting to play around with thick paints, foils, foil pens, inks and card. I am not thinking too much into how the surface designs will work as a greetings card/invitation just yet. I want to experiment with applying them to this specific area once the designs are well underway.