Drawings for Part of Popular Culture Project

These first two images have been printed with emulsion as a method. They were then drawn back into with inks, procion dyes and pencil. The first is taken from a D&G advert and the second from a Jamie Oliver program.

Collaborative Project

During my second year at BCU, we were placed in groups a five for a project. Students from embroidery, constructed and printed textiles were mixed together and asked to create a final outcome of a wall paper. The final piece was printed by Tektura, a wall paper and cover company. Above is the briefe created by my group and below is a few fabric samples.

Collaborative Fabric Samples

 

 

Drawing - Red Pepper Studies

Some old pictures scanned from my second year elective sketchbook. Mostly inks, acrylics and pencil.

Christmas Cards for Textiles Fundraising

Textiles students at BCU are asked to raise money in their final year for the degree show held in June. Each specialism has to raise about £1000 to pay for business cards and promotional materials, the show and transport to the Young Designers show. These cards were my contribution to the christmas craft stand. They were influenced by my dissertation subject; popular culture imagery and given a festive feel!

Global Colour Collaboration

Birmingham City University has linked up with UBM Live, the exhibition organisers behind Interiors Birmingham, and forecasting agency Global Color Research – mix publications, to present the future trends of the interiors industry. Students were briefed with one of four trends predicted by global colour and asked to develop and create products and imagery fitting with their trend.
My tutors gave me the trend "Punch"!

Reds: luscious lipstick colours, red browns, red foils, especially classic pillar box red. Punch is completely co-ordinated tonal interiors, based on tonal variations of one colour, a strong forward trend creating maximum visual impact. This trend involves clean slick lines, simple arresting shapes, lack of detail, air-brushed perfection, pared down unromantic but maybe dangerously sexy, racy, brash, fun design, 80’s bling, graphic, kitsch, tonal, and conceptual. This is not a decorative trend but one of high impact, think red Ferrari and cocktail cherries - strong structural glossy shapes.

http://www.bcu.ac.uk/trends/punch.html

Interiors Birmingham 18th-21st January

Below is the Punch trend on the Global Colour stand at the NEC'S Interiors Show 2009.

For the show several students works were utilized to create stands that depicted what each trend was about. For Punch I created 250 origami birds and hung them at different heights to portray a flock of birds in mid-flight.