After many ups and downs throughout this
unit I can say that I am happy with my final collection. Especially my finished
placemats, the colours turned out so vivid and I think they really represent my
style.
With this unit I really wanted to gain an
understanding of my own design process and really be able to recognise my
practice, but I have found myself just getting lost in terms of who I am as a textiles
designer. I have always known that I want to produce designs for interiors, but
this unit I have realised that I need to broaden my approach to what I can
apply my designs too. Until my tutor had mentioned designing placemats I would
have never even thought of it and I think this really benefited my work
throughout this unit.
Over the summer I spent a few moths
traveling around Southeast Asia and Bali and this was great inspiration for my
summer project drawing up tropical botanical plants that I discovered through
my travels, which I carried all the way through this project. I have a strong
body of drawings that I am proud of, and I’m happy that my collection represents
this but even though I had so many drawings, I still didn’t really have any idea
where I saw my work going and this was something that really held me back throughout
most of the project. It took me a long time to actually decide what I wanted to
do but after a lot of research especially looking at the designer Junko Shimada
and photographer Sarah Illenberger I started to see what I wanted my final
collection to represent.
I regret not sampling enough in this unit,
I feel as though I haven’t experimented as much as I would have liked too. I could
have taken my work a lot further and if I had the outcome may have been very
different, I have really let myself down by not sampling and experimenting more.
I also regret not keeping on top of my blog as much I would have liked too, it’s
something that I’m struggling to get into even though I know it will benefit my
practice massively.
This unit I decided that I didn’t want to
sample onto fabric with the nature of my outcomes to be placemat designs. The
colours didn’t come out as well I would have hoped on my final mounted
collection. They should have been as bright as the placemats themselves, but
after testing many different methods I couldn’t afford to waste any more money
on printing, which lets down my final collection massively. I think I suit
printing onto fabrics more, this way I can bring more to my prints by adding
stitching and giving them a more tactile nature. I know I could have
experimented way more if I had chosen to print onto fabric by dying fabric or
using the laser cutter, but this is something I am going to take into
consideration for the next unit.
Overall even though I am happy with my
designs and final collection I know I could have done more to benefit myself
and my practice but I have learnt from this and I will be carrying this
knowledge into the rest of my time at university.
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