Beta Fashion Outcome

Following on from the designs i created for Beta Fashion, here are the boards I made up on photoshop to present this. 

MOODBOARD

ADDITIONAL DESIGNS

GIRAFFE PRINT

ELEPHANT PRINT

PAISLEY BIRD PRINT (Used on website)

Finally finished my Self Initiated Briefs!

Self Initiated Briefs - Finally Done!! 

For the past couple of weeks I have been pretty much living in the library finishing off my Self Initiated Briefs. This was a recently finished project from uni where I had to design 4 different collections for companies on illustrator and photoshop, each inspired by something completely different. This is so i can have a portfolio showing how diverse i can be. 

Design Brief 1 was inspired by typical England, to design a collection for Topshop. 
As I have a great love of the countryside, I decided I wanted to base my ideas around the typical English country, and incorporate royalty into it, naming the collection 'Countryside Royalty'. 
I decided to go for a quirky approach, and to bring the two ideas together, for example have foxes wearing crowns. 

The board below is the moodboard I created for this project. 

This was the quirky foxes head I designed on illustrator to bring the idea of Countryside Royalty together. I thought it would be a different style if i scanned my hair in to photoshop, to use as the fur for the fox, and I think this has worked really well! 

For a second print design I chose a pheasant, with a quirky twist of adding a beefeater hat ontop, which I think creates a really unique fun design. 

I then took the idea of the pheasant feathers and decided to turn them into a placement print on a shirt. 

Brief 2 - a collection inspired by circles to design a range of evening wear. 
As the theme was circles i decided to use the idea of mosaics and tiles and coloured glass (stained glass windows) to create a moodboard to help me with inspiration for my print designs. I also chose the theme of mosaics as with the collection being evening wear, I thought this theme was quite sophisicated, naming the collection 'Mosaic Montage'.

Above - My evening wear outfits featuring own designed print. 

These prints above were created from drawings of simple circular shapes on paper, scanned in and played around with the adjustments on photoshop to create two completely different prints inspired by mosaics and glass. 

The prints above were created by dripping ink into water and photographing it then playing around with it on photoshop creating a repeat print. The one on the left is painted with an overlay of bubble wrap which i scanned into the computer and played around with the thresh hold on photoshop. 


Brief 3 - a sportswear collection inspired by futurism.
For this brief we had to take the idea of futurism and take out of it whatever we wanted the idea of futurism to be. I chose to base my moodboard and designs around the theme of fibre optics and nano tubes. 

The above print on the left, was inspired by me just looking at a  back of a computer and finding a plastic casing holding all the wires together. I thought it really fitted in with my theme well so I took a picture and transformed into the print it is now - 

Design Brief 4 - a collection with inspiration chosen by me. 
I decided I wanted to create a collection for Karen Millen, based on the theme of architecture as I have never used architecture as research for any of my work before and thought it would be quite a nice different idea. This is one of my favourite collections I have designed. 

Above is my moodboard, and I love the colour palette I have chosen; neutral tones with a splash of blue and burnt orange. 

I really love the print designs I have created for this collection. They were inspired by different parts of buildings whether it be the brickwork or the patterns in which windows create. I think overall they really come together and compliment eachother as a collection. 

Beta Fashion

For uni we were asked to enter a competition in order to complete one of our pieces of coursework. I decided to enter the Beta Fashion competition, designing a scarf on photoshop under the brief of a Noahs Ark theme. I have created 6 different designs to submit as I couldn't decide on just one!

Birds of Feather - The bird was a big part of Noahs Ark, and so i wanted to base my design around this. I also love paisley and decided to incorporate this into my bird design, with effective use of colours and different sizes to tie in all different types of bird. This design is currently up on the website, so if you would like to vote for me please follow this link and spare some of your time to enter your email address, would be much appreciated! http://www.betafashion.com/competitionratedesign.aspx?SubmissionID=6749&compID=0&filter=0

 

 

Elephant - Inspired by my love of elephants, with hand drawn designs of giraffes and Noahs Ark too. I have used a large elephants head to show the largest animal on the Ark.

 

Elephant repeat - Created using the stamp tool on photoshop layering up my hand drawn elephant design.

 

Butterflies - I wanted to keep to a simple line drawing however incorporating bright bold colours behind but so they didnt neccesarily stay within the lines, and I think the use of scale has complimented this.

 



Giraffes - I love this design and the way I have hand drawn the giraffes in a simple yet quirky way. I think this has become really effective and have decided to keep it simple with just the line drawings.

 

 

Elephants Reunite - Pattern created using my hand drawn image of an elephant.