Sustainable City Showcase Pt. 2

Here are the rest of the photos from the showcase that we (AUT textile + fashion students) participated in:

Vanessa added to our collection with some of her own garments - she constructed them all in one weekend = legend! 

Vanessa's dress: She constructed this out of a printed fabric that she designed. If anyone is interested in her garments, you can go here.

Mel's children's bedding samples (with Carol's behind)

Carol's screen- + digital printed swatches

My workspace (With coffee-bean-sack-bag in progress)

This is the mock up bag I created (all hand-stitched!)

Close up of the hand stitching... was a pretty rough attempt, but then again it was a mock up!

Info Poster for our area

In action! From left: Rachel, Rachel, Kahli, Carol (with Diana behind her)

Rachel's work with our products

Sitka's display 

I cannot remember the name of this business, but what is amazing about them is that they use all natural dyes for their fabrics i.e. using beetroot, tea, coffee etc.

The mock up bag again.

Myself, Carol, Kahli and Diana

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Creative block = conquered.

I have finally managed to get through my creative block, and here are my resulting designs that I will be putting forward in the hopes that Charles Parsons will choose them to try sell!!Fingers crossed...

Visualisations:

My main theme through these prints is the inspiration from the patterns that feature on the wings of moths etc, like these:

Bring on the presentations!!

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Mary Katrantzou + Peter Pilotto

Adding two more designers to my inspiration for digital print:

Mary Katrantzou

Peter Pilotto

I really love the abstract elements to each designers textiles, as well as a hint of geometry. These are super inspiring, and I have managed to come up with a design of my own, inspired by these two:

This is the original photograph...

...and the end product:

This design is probably more similar in composition to Mary Katrantzou.

It feels good to actually feel confident about something I am creating for once.

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Wooo.. inspiration!

Monika Traikov's flickr.

Just so beautiful - I am going to use these as major inspiration for my digital design paper!

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Creative block - 0, Alanna - 1

Finally have breached my creative block (to a degree)... so here are some of the fruits I have produced!!

Have someone from Charles Parsons coming in today for class, and she is going to have a little look at where we are at - Charles Parsons is wanting to purchase some of the designs from our class at the end of the semester.

So a wee bit nervous about going into uni today, but oh-well.

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Latest pieces of work...

These are the latest outputs of my unblocked creativity! The first is for my digital design, and the second is for my screen printing.

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The things I do.

From this... -> ...to this.

And that folks, is what I do whilst experimenting.