Day One
After exploring the fan shape last week, I
wanted to carry on this way of working, as I believed it was working for me. I
looked into my trip research and started doing the same exercise I did with the
fan shape, however this time I used the shape of two Chinese bottles and also
the coke bottle from and Andy Warhol piece in order to combine the two cultures
together. So I created hand drawn and digital designs as well as collaging to
develop these shapes. I collected a range of interesting structural shapes,
which I really liked. Once exhausting the bottle shape I began to take interest
in traditional Chinese dress. I chose to focus on the shape of the seams used,
so I took the seam shape and placed it on the stand in a multiple of ways.
Experimenting to see how it could feature on the body. I then developed off of
my stand work and developed straight off of the traditional dress looking at
ways I could reinvent it.
Day Two
Recalling my previous research and design
developments I chose 4 of my favourite and began to design off of them in order
for the shape to be developed to its furthest, I did a series of very quick
designs, which I then focused on into developed designs. I did this for the
whole day I believe that I worked well but possibly could have worked more
efficiently by being faster and thinking less about what I was doing and just
focused more on the shape.
Day Three
Yesterday I developed designs thoroughly,
so today I wanted to look into the possibility of creating a print or using the
laser cutter. For this I fixated on Chinese and postmodern iconography. I
looked at the Coca cola bottle and logo, taken from pop art and the Chinese dragon,
which I had noticed, had been featured on many Chinese artifacts from my trip
research. I mixed the two together, combing the two cultures in a postmodern
way. I did this through drawings which I developed into digital files as this
allowed me to experiment in a more efficient way. I developed some ideas for
initial prints and also possible laser cutting samples.
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