Ikea

Last week i visited Ikea and during my visit i found some interesting furniture that had simular digital prints on the material to my designs for my pratical work. Belowe re some images of the furniture that i thought had interesting prints.

I like the prints on the cupboards.

Roberto Cavalli.



This week i have been looking at digital printed scarfs that inspire me to help create my scarfs. One designer i did find interesting is Roberto Cavalli. His designs are unique and the imagery he uses on then are quite interesting how hes mixed imagery together. Below are a few examples that i like.
 On this scarf above i like how detailed the drawing is and for each different image they have there own colour palette so the scarve has numerous colout palettes on it.

Scarf and Wallpaper design last week.

Scarf design mixing optical art with geometric shapes.

Matching wallpaper that would be placed in a shop window.

Ideas for Scarves and Wallpapers.

This week , I have been creating designs for digitally printed scarves and wallpapers by mixing all of my themes together ( Geometric/Op Art , Vintage / Pop Art of the 1960's and Flower Power).

Hermes Silk Scarves Inspiration

Limited colour palette and has geometric patterns spread across the scarves.

This week I have had a tutorial and decided to create samples for scarves and wallpapers. I started to research scarves and first of all looked at Hermes collection of silk scarves as i know they are very colourful as well as creative. Below are images that have inspired me to create my scarves in a similar way.

I like how the squares of images create an animal gives me inspiration to create something simular using my vintage  imagery .

Has a lot of geometric pattern and shapes in the scarves which is similar to my shapes and designs.

Visit to Bents Garden Centre

This weekend when i visited Bents garden center i found a lot of Orla Kiely designs she has created for household items. When looking at these items i have noticed that her colour schemes match's the 1960's colour.

Orla Kiely's Biscuit tins.

Cups and a shopping bag.

Candles

Cushions by Orla Kiely

Experimenting with Adobe Illustrator.

Last week after creating a lot of designs sheets I started to scan my images in and change , add or repeat the image in Illustrator to create patterns i could use for wallpapers. During this following week I will be creating more designs , adding images to my Blog to show how the designs are developing.

Pop Art Inspired

For one of my design sheets I have painted and outlined a old 1960's T.V. Personally I like what I have done here and from this piece I can imagine it on wallpapers and fabrics, and  I like how it has a quirky style to the image.

Bruce Gray Inspired Sheet.

This week after Nick showed me some work by Bruce Gray , i was inspired to create a piece of art work like his but in my colour palette and to experiment by cutting pieces of paper out.

Mood Board in Studio

For my third year project im focusing on three collections , which are Geometric/Op Art , Flower Power and Vintage / Pop art 1960's. Below are images of parts of my mood board that are full of inspiration to help me start to draw from to gather ideas for designs for the samples i will start to be creating in hopefully three weeks time.

Geometric/Op Art Inspiration Board.

Vintage / Pop Art based on the 1960's Inspiration Board.

Flower Power Inspiration Board.

Orla Kiely

This week for my third year project I began to research Orla Kiely. I like the limited colour palette that she uses and the bold shapes she creates. Her prints have give me inspiration for my floral shapes for my flower power collection.

Inspired by Bridget Riley

The end of last week and this week i am focusing on geometric shapes taking inspiration from Op artist like Bridget Riley.
Here are two images of one design sheet.

 This image was taking half way through painting the design sheet.

Here is the final image. I have zoomed in on my camera so that you can see the fine lines alot clearer in the circles.

 

This week so far i have nearly complete another design sheet based on Op art . With this sheet , i am going to cut it out and create smaller versions in different colours based on my colour palette for my theme of geometric 1960's shapes.



Third day back at University

Whilst looking for research in the library in University for Critical Studies I came across this book. Looks like this weekend i will be trying out these techniques for my third year project.

Hallmark Project

In August I handed in my Hallmark Project , after six months of painting , drawing, researching and designing. My collections was based on Geometric/Patterns and Animals.

Hallmark work exhibited.