shoes...

both westwood and mcqueen have managed to break the tradition of regular clothing through their designs, taking iregular materials and shapes to make their clothes, this is also a big aim when it comes to my stamp designs, I need them to stand out individually and as a whole, making me realise how important the asthetics are for my stamps.

At the v and a I managed to find a small section on shoes, there was such a clear divide between where the shoes were made and design ect, i've had the idea to use these to show the differences between the stamps? or perhaps a different designer per stamp?!

here are a few of the shoes I looked into so you understand a bit more....

designers...

my first start was to look into british fashion designers, even if I go off the outline slightly its always going to come back to that. I went to library to look up designers like vivienne westwood and alexander mcqueen, both of there designs have so much colour and break all the rules to do with fashion. below are a couple of the illustrations I made from there work: 

this illustration was influenced by lots of the images I found in Vivienne Westwood by Claire Wilcox, I think so much is based around the fashion that most of the time you would no the designer if you saw them walking down the street...perhaps by placing them with their designs it gives the illustrations a unique appeal? 

research begins...

when we were given the brief we were told to not just base our research around the internet so I went to the library today to try and get a better understanding of different designers and there work. The first name that came to me to research was vivienne westwood, I no her style of being really eccentric I found a quote in one book by her saying that there is no reason why there should be rights and wrongs within fashion. I would love to be able to interpret this into my own illustrations. 


the image below just reflects the amount of possibilities there are in fashion, I have soo many shoes and still keep buying, I think its the same for most people and because these stamps are aimed at such a wide audience perhaps shoes would be the way to go?

new Brief! (sorry about all the blank posts above, can't work out how to delete them!)

I got a new brief last week after handing all of the other work below in, i've spent the last week researching and trying to pick a route I find the most interesting. There were quite a lot of briefs to choose from but this one stood out to me straight away, it was over 2 pages long so i've summarised it up to help me focus:

-the aim is to produce 6 stamps keeping a continuity through them all, that relate to british fashion

- examples of routes I can go down; inspired by music, cutting edge fashion, key statements through the past half century etc.

at the minute I am thinking about focusing on the history of fashion but once I start researching and brainstorming ideas this might change...

summer project-use your brain

This is my final illustration for the "use your brain project"I based my idea around epilepsy as its something thats I have personal understanding of, I wanted to create an illustration that would help the public understand it more than it is now. I wanted to show the seizure in a simpler form, and in a way that can be understood easily. the simplest statement i read was that a fit was “a short circuit”. I related this to my final image by showing a blip in a computer circuit board. 

my final outcome could be used as an illustrated image alone, or as part of a poster campaign. I feel the final image relates to a much more wide spread audience than others posters i have seen. I hope that by using an everyday object as relation that even somebody with no knowledge of the condition can be informed by the illustration.

summer project: mix tape.

I no this is really backwards as we just had christmas! but I wasn't using a blog at the time and wanted to put this up here. The brief was to make a cover for a mix tape with your own collection of songs. I chose to base mine on a theme and picked songs about being trapped. This was the end result and relates back to the lyrics of one particular song, "life's like an hour glass glued to the table". I think I lost the element that this is meant to be an hour glass but I was pleased with the idea at the time, my experimentation focused around drowning.