Screen-printing inspriration

Some more images that are inspiring me with my screen-printing assignment:

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Latest design:

So this image is my repeat for screen-printing: the red and black part of the design is what a baby will be able to see within the first few weeks from birth, and as their eye-sight progresses, they will be able to perceive the blue aswell :)

Now I just have to print the films, expose the screens, choose which ink system to use, and PRINT!!! Woo!!

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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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Geometriiiic!

Feeling super excited and inspired right now for my screen-printing assignment again, this time it is a more developed and matured inspiration - I have managed to whittle down my ideas and where I am getting them from for my baby eyesight-development prints: Architecture, and paper-folding.

Check out these images :) They all include very geometrical designs and make me all fidgety, just because I can't wait to come up with some concepts soon!

This first image is taken in our flat's bathroom (it is the detailing on one of the windows):

Super pumped that I now have my buzz back!

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Screen Printing Inspiration

Just an update on my previous post, I am not going to be going to India in September, because University was too difficult to work around, but God has managed to outwork a better outcome! I am now heavily considering moving to Kolkata for a year to work for Freeset in February 2012! I am beyond excited at this prospect, as my heart just broke thinking I wouldn't get to India at all!

Now that I am remaining in New Zealand for the time being, I am having to refocus on my final semester - we are working on our Digital and Screen Printing media, as well as learning Illustrator and about Design Communication, and I am pretty happy that we are watching movies and studying them in theory! Good ones too: The Devil Wears Prada, Roman Holiday, Dracula, and Memoirs of a Geisha!

So I have begun to gather some images of inspiration for my Digital/Screen Printing/Illustrator classes to use as my stepping stones to get some designs flowing!

Here are my Screen-Printing images:

Louis Vuitton S/S 2012

From this image above, I have found that I am quite inspired by the geometrical aspect to it, which is what I am using to spurn out further images related to it...

Louise Gray

S/S 2011

(Two separate links btw)

As you can see in this collection, there is a glorious amount of geometrical imagery and patterns going on, which look fantastic!

This is a nice colour palate, but I am wondering whether it will be best for what I am going for, as many S/S collections are brighter colours - although this is quite a soft, warm colour palate, which reminds me of quiet evenings in with a friend or two, chilling out with a nice dinner and wine, after a sun-blasted day. Oh Lordy, my imagery is embarrassing.

Image from Design*Sponge

I love this image above - it reminds me of the vibrant colours of India (I know, I am obsessed!). It's cool, because in our screen printing class, we have access to foils, so I can add metallic accents to my design (whatever it will be), so I can have elements similar to the above two images.

Patrick Dan featured on Design*Sponge

I saw this image on Tumblr, and it made me really want to incorporate flags/bunting into my design! It is an interesting concept, and I am thinking that if I am to focus on this idea, I would design for a wallpaper banner that runs along the wall horizontally (if you get what I mean?).

Another image on Tumblr, and this one has inspired me beyond the initial concept of a wallpaper banner featuring bunting, but if I am to pursue this idea, I think that I will add designs within the flags, similar to the above two images.

And this image I just love - I love the flags in the background, with the overlaying of a hand-drawn design - simple three-colour palate - perfect for screen printing!

So I will see how I can develop and intertwine the two concepts of geometrical designs, as well as the flags/bunting. I have to also decide what I will design for - be it S/S swimsuit, or a fabric for designers to use to create garments... or maybe even a bed-spread, a beach towel.... the possibilities are almost endless. The boundaries are only what I can screen-print onto successfully.

Quite a long post, but my way of being able to purge out some of my ideas and sort them out a bit (and now you might have an insight into my mind and how I process ideas and concepts!).

Hope winter is treating you well (down here in the Southern Hemisphere), and that the Northern Hemisphere gets ready for when we claim summer back! Not long now... haha.

Ta-ta for now.

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Kolkata

Currently I am anticipating a conversation with my year leader at university, because I am wanting to travel to India for four months, Sept - Jan. This means that it will be cutting two months out of my semester, therefore I might have to add a year onto my degree to fit around it. I will talk to her about trying to shuffle around my papers, and see how far I can stretch my luck.

The reason I am wanting to go to India, is because I am one of two people being considered for a four-month volunteer placement at Freeset in Kolkata. What this is is a business that is working towards the freedom of the red-light sex trade women, and they are doing this by providing these women with the option to earn money in a different way, in a way with dignity and without shame. They hire these women (who many have been sold into, or forced into the trade) to either make tote bags and t-shirts, to screen print these, or to do pattern making. These bags and shirts will have images printed onto them (this is where I come in, I will be designing these images), to the requirements of the customer.

The great thing is, Freeset accepts women who have little or no skills, and teaches them, provides childcare, and a greater income, as well as allowing them to learn how to read and write.

It is such an amazing company, and their hearts are 100% sold to see these women into freedom.

I so hope that I can go, just look at the beautiful faces, and beautiful people...