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.