15/02/16 Week Seven | Self Initiated

After reviewing my samples in the tutorial, we all agreed that I should defiantly take up dying in the next unit as it help majorly within my colour pallet. as it was too late to learn the process of dying, a friend suggestion the sublimation printer where I can transfer my images onto material. from this I created a few samples as some materials would not print the image clearly.

 

These are my top 10 samples.

 

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Nearly all of my samples are two sided which I loved creating. so what I have decided for my concept is a room divider. reasons for this is that you would be able to see both sides of the piece and also the option to go full cover or light depending on the chosen material.

08/02/16 Week Six | Self Initiated

For further inspiration, I went to visit the new collection by Tibor Reich at the Whitworth Art Gallery. instantly I noticed that this artist works in columns as my primary images were all lines like this. after further investigation to how detailed his work is, I noticed that he used the same technique. For example, orange background with a black motif on top. Another design would be a black background with an orange motif. This simplicity gave me the thought of how my images also include that technique so why not do that while sampling?

 

The next collection that I came across was this wallpaper collection by several artists combined. what attracted me was that the colours used weren't your typical colours you would see in someone home.

My favourite one would have to be this piece by an artist called Edward Veevers. Why? because the colours used are so complementing to each other and there was also an unusual texture to it.

 

From the visual research, interpreting them through my drawings gave me a boost to making samples. I continued using the structure of panels within my drawings all the way through my samples.

These are my samples; inspired by my visit to the Whitworth.

Locating - Live Brief Evaluation

The live brief has been an extremely short and quick experience. not having enough time to explore with my drawings as well as sampling, had a negative impact on my development process. if I had the chance to start over, I would most defiantly prepare my time because I feel I wasn't organised well in this project due to personal issues. with two units alongside each other made thing more difficult as I couldn't recognise what goes with what.

 

With the chance of having more time, hand stitching would have been cooperated as the history of my chosen brand do hand stitching on their products.

Visualisation of what my samples could look like on the timberland shoes

04/02/16 Week Four | Live Brief

It is now week four and I have only a couple of days to go to complete the live brief. I felt very short of time therefore I had to rush my drawings and samples. Below are some of the drawing that I had done.

 

At the beginning of the locating unit, I was focusing on using the same topic of broken surface for both of my projects. But this became extremely confusing and also a hassle to separate which samples goes with which one. So, I got the idea of using the colour theme from specific fruits and tweaking the colours to more of my style of using colour. Experimenting with how you can change colours hue, saturation etc. on the printer made things much easier at the last minute which I know isn't the best option but it did help me achieve the colours I intended.

 

 

 

From the beginning of this unit, I was determined to improve my skills/ knowledge on the embellisher. As you can see from the image above, I interpreted this by using the embellishing machine, alongside various thickness of thread made out of wool, mohair etc. to capture the quality of line within  my drawings above. The sample can be seen below.

 

01/02/16 Week Five | Self Initiated

After laying out all my samples that I done so far, it was clear to see that my colour pallet was no where near close. Neither were the material choices. So, what I, my tutor and peer groups decided was for me to go out and gather more materials that connect to my primary images, and also look carefully at what my images are telling me. the suggestion of using the dying technique was an option but after a tutorial on how it works, I just could not understand how you get the colours right. so to overcome this, I will be achieving the colours I need through mixture of threads and stitches.

 

01/02/16 Week Three | Live Brief

1952

Nathan Swartz bought a half interest in the Abington Shoe Company in Abington, Massachusetts.

1955

Nathan Swartz bought the remaining interest in Abington Shoe Company and welcomed his sons into the company, manufacturing private label shoes for leading brand manufacturers for almost 10 years.

1965

The Swartz family introduced injection-moulding technology to the footwear industry. This revolutionary technology fused soles to leather uppers without stitching, producing truly waterproof boots and shoes.

 
The fact that they are hand made makes them special, suggests the makers put 110% in their work,
company is worth 1.8 billion. The shoes/ deisgns have been similar throughout for almost 100 years and it is always in fashion in all types of weathers

The Original Mens Timberlands

 

http://www.timberlandonline.co.uk/en/about_timberland_corporate_timeline.html