Tuesday 26th September

Today we had to make our final piece for Fashion Textiles. We had to use the same design as we used for yesterdays exercise. It was quite difficult for me because I always plan what I want to do, and I have some time to figure out what route I am going to go down, how I am going to present my work, and how I am going to create a really interesting, unique and different concept. I found it challenging that I was getting put on the spot, I felt that my idea wasn’t as strong as it could of been. I also couldn’t change the idea, which I found very hard as I thought of some better ideas throughout the day which I couldn’t change.

I had the whole morning to create the final piece. I thought I would do a hat. I used masking tape, and I would tape up a small plastic cup and I would peel it off when it was strong enough. I draw triangles on the masking type as part of the design, but I didnt like it as I felt it was very basic, and when doing the triangles at different sizes, it didnt look like I was thinking out of the box. I like being creative with my work, and I couldn’t do that as it was so fast paced and on the spot thinking.

These are some of the photographs that I took of my final piece hat.

The above photographs, some are steps by steps and so were just experimentation, but the hat was the final piece. I didn’t find doing this enjoyable to be honest, I have never done 3D making, and creating fashion garments, but I didn’t find it enjoyable, I prefer doing digital creation.

In the afternoon, we watched an episode on Abstract which is on Netflix. It was about a Nike Design who created the Air Jordans. It was quite interesting to watch and learn about the brand and about Tinker Hatfield.

During this day, we also created a consumer profile that would relate to a Wolfgang Tillmans customer. This was quite difficult because I have never done a customer profile before, and I felt like Wolfgang Tillmans customer is a unique and niche audience, and all customers will like different things. so I felt it was hard to figure out with a customer would like.

This is what the customer profile looks like:

We done this small project in groups.