Lesson 23 and 24: Planning your final piece

Lesson Aims: To plan your final piece referring to the work of your chosen Fashion/Interior Designer or Textile Artist 

Lesson Objectives (during this lesson you will):

1. Present your selected Fashion/Interior Designer or Textile Artist 

2. Create a plan for your final piece 

3. Use existing samples to explore design ideas for your final piece 

Tasks/Timings:

Ensure with all activities that you refer to your chosen Fashion/Interior Designer or Textile Artist - ensure that you incorporate aspects of their working style in your final piece. 

Fashion

Use the photocopier or projector to enlarge fabric samples and see them on the body

Drape material and pin fabric samples onto mannequin 

Create sketches/Visualisations to show design ideas 

Photograph all activities to document the process 

Eleanor Hardwick - projection onto figure

Draping Activities by East London Design Student Sarah Turner - MORE HERE

more draping ideas

Erin Petson - Fashion Illustration

Visualisation AS Textile Students 

Interiors/Textile Artists

Decide on an enlargement and/or cropping approach or a repeat pattern design for compositions for interiors 

Photocopy samples/drawings/photographs/etc to create designs and compose in paper

Photograph activities (well necessary) 

Collage with colour, photocopies, photographs, drawings to create repeat patterns - Marten Jelle

Mixed media compositions combining photocopies, fabrics and drawings

Monoprinting to explore repeat pattern - Jo Faulkner

Visualisation AS Textile Student

ALL: Problem Solving

Identify a list of problems that you will need to solve in order to create your final piece. Make notes in the back of your sketchbook.

e.g. 

Lingerie - how do you adapt square samples to corset shapes and straps?

Lampshade - you need to buy the shade! how will the panels connect visually? will you combine plain and patterned panels? What will these be made of? What shape will the lampshade be?

HOMEWORK

1. Complete the activities outlined for your chosen pathway
2. Research and find a piece of Fashion, Interior or Textile Art which clearly shows visually the final outcome you intend to create. Print a copy of the image(s)

3. Begin to present this weeks works as either 2-3 Final Design double pages in sketchbook OR 1xA2 Final Design Board 

DEADLINE: First lesson next week