Evaluation.

At the beginning of assignment it was my intention to base both units on the same research and context but as the time passed each unit found their own separate paths. I found the rolls royce brief daunting at the beginning due to the fact that I had never thought of designing samples for the interior of a car and I wasn't sure how I was going to create something to suit this brief. But after discussing with my lecturer he told me not to think to much into how my samples would sit in a car but to be as free as I wanted so that's what I did, I didn't think to much into where and how they would go into the car, because rolls royce in theory if they used them would adapt them to be made appropriate and how they could manufacture them. I'm glad that in the last week i thought more about changing the colour scheme of the Rolls Royce samples. I was put under a lot of pressure and it was change very last minute and un expected but it did allow me to be in a new situation and i found i worked better, despite not thinking this when told to change. I also found the new colour scheme more clean cut and graphic which suits the brief more appropriatley. As for my own self written unit I feel it went much smoother as I really wanted to get the feel of my jungle theme I kept to my colour scheme of green and yellows which in one of my first tutorials I was told that it was a very obvious choice. In spite of this feed back I decided to stick with this colour scheme as it is that very natural and camouflaged look that I wanted envisioned from my work. At the beginning I wasn't sure where I could envision my work being placed within interior design, but as I was creating my samples I could see them being In a shop window display hanging as a drop back or draped over tables with tribal inspired hand bags delicately placed on top. I must admit that I feel my rolls royce samples are more thought out have a more professional appearance I think this is due to the fact In the final week I much more preferred working on these rather than the other units. I am disappointed that i didn't really learn anything new in this assignment but I felt that I really wanted to work more with the ethos and I thought it worked well with the rolls royce brief as I envision they actual use that or a similar machine to actual create the emblems and surface design. One thing I used which I haven't before was the PFAF and it was a god send for bring texture and repetitive pattern into my work to match my illustrations. I made a lot of mistakes within this assignment with my colour scheme and the materials I used,I started using neoprene its a material I have been wanting to use for a while now but I looking at it now I wish I had got some coloured neoprene. And i think some of my harshest feed back but true was to stop using cheap sheer fabric as I was told bluntly "it looks tacky", and looking back on it I agree, but by this time I had a week left in my assignment and i had to work with what I had. I was happy that i managed to get my hands on to some real leather which was brilliant to work with. If I could go back I would get real leather straight away instead of imitation swede. I much happier with the out come of my rolls royce brief than my self initiated and I do think that was the fact I was forced to work under pressure because by the time I was told that my colours weren't working I was left with 5 days to change but surprisingly I feel they came out much better than what I had anticipated. I feel I had a clear journey from my initial drawings to my final samples. 

A tough week.

I really was set up with a challenge this week I went into a pin up on monday morning a week before my hand In and I knew my samples for my rolls royce brief weren't as strong as they should be. So when I went into my pin up they were brutally honest and said to think about changing my colour scheme to my work stand out better. I looked back through my work and looked at what colours I could work with, in some of my early drawings I created drawings and stuck bright tissue paper over the top and it's the bright pink that pops out to me. And my tutor said to work with the grey scale so that its not to over powering and then the pink would really stand out.

 I decided to go back a step to start with and create more drawings so that I would have more visual research to work with. From them I began working from those and my samples began to come out much better, the first image below was a sample i did In a panic straight after my pin up session and then they go on to get much better like the last image which is possibly my faviourte sample for this whole assignment.  

The starting ones are awfull I was clutching at staws to come up with ideas but then I feel I really started to get into my flow. Getting onto the ethos was a god send as the only sample that did work out of my last set was a ethos stitch out which I wanted to do again but change the colour scheme, which luckily I was able to do and stitch out another design of two of my drawings cut in half and placed together. I really liked the abstractness of the image they're very graphic which is the look I wanted for this assignment and the grey backings make them very sleek and stylish i feel like these designs are simplistic and timeless which is the apperance that I think of when I think of rolls royce. 

Sandra Fettingis.

A friend of mine told me about a artists that she thought I might be interested in, Sandra Fettingis a pattern based artist working within the fields of pattern, installations and murals. All of her work involves a process of layering different medias. It very much reminds me of my own way of working using collages and layering my own patterned work. I had been looking for another person who worked in a very graphics and geometric way. I was also asked after a tutorial to think about the colour pallet that I was using and to be more adventurous and more risk taking with it to pull away from the obvious green and yellows of the jungle. Looking at few of Fettingis work I really like the colour ways on her new neon work as seen below, Its the pink and Grey's that I am particulary interested in. 

Inspiration - Jazmin Berahka.

Jazmin Berahka is a artist who creates pieces using illustrations, installations, embroidery, graphics and costume design, I came across her work while I was looking for inspiration on pintrest. Her work imediatly caught my eye with her use of geometric shapes etc she was filling in areas of drawings with different patterns and shapes. I related it to my own practice I thought about all of the line drawings that I had started with and how I could fill those drawings in , in a similar way.

I then went on to combine bold triangles of colour into the background, I am still not entirely sure how I feel about these due to the fact I feel that they are too random there Is no meaning of them being there.

These drawings I want to take further but I want to take them into my engineering embroidery practice as I feel they fit in with that brief much better. All of the geometric shapes and patterns make me think of the work "engineering" I feel I can see the all working together much in the same way the engine of a car would.



Alessandera Branca

For my own practice I'm still looking into interior design I wanted to find designers that I can relate my own practice with. I came across Alessandera Branca when I was looking through some home interior design magazines. She combines graphic prints with old world craftsmanship. Her embroidery collection combines hand embroidery Indian and paisley patterns with traditional old Scottish tartan effects. I always find myself being drawn back to hand embroidery I always try out different techniques but its like the work of Branca that really excites me. I could s the work that I create sitting very nicely along side her own in a very high home furnishing store. 

Change In colour.

After a feedback session i was advised to change my colour scheme for my rolls royce brief as they wanting something with a little more risk taking and the greens and yellows just seem to fade into the background. So I was put under pressure to go back to the drawing board and re think my orriginal idea. I was adviced to work with the grey scale and add a bright eye catching colour, so going back and looking at some of my previous drawings and researched I looked for inspiration. It came to me from re looking at the work of Sandra Fettingis I had said earlier on that I really liked the colour scheme of her work new neon. I then decided that I already had chosen another colour scheme I was going to base my new colour scheme on this but without that orange tone I just want the pink and greys, So i began to draw with this in mind.