Tag: Thinking

Blurry English Boys and Arnold

Blurry English Boys and Arnold

After a few chocolate bars, a whole chocolate donkey cake, and my mate’s chocolate dessert, fueled by sugar, I was finally ready to start with my designs for the other three major tournaments – Wimbledon, Australian Open, and French Open.

Another relationship in Falmouth

Another relationship in Falmouth

A few weeks ago I was given a project on designing for a brand. Well, apparently, creating objects you love is a bit harder when you have to consider how other people/brands might feel about it. I chose to design for Christopher Kane, hoping I 

CAD Jacket

CAD Jacket

Illustrator is not exactly something unfamiliar to me but, you know, one can never stop learning. In that respect, I feel I learned something quite useful today, so that will be the theme of my next blog post – how to quickly create a CAD image of a jacket you just came up with – what I actually did.

So first of all I decided on my silhouette and found and image on WGSN, showing a jacket of similar shape, although not made of the same material, as the one I designed and that was my template for the basic sketch.

I started slowly tracing off the right part of the jacket and then reflected that shape to the left side of the canvas, using the Reflect Tool. After a while I chose a color palette and added color to the jacket, using the Live Paint Bucket. Adding a few stitches where needed made my jacket look much more complete so that is how it actually started taking a decent shape.

Working on the same file for over half an hour made me a bit tired of the colors I had used and I felt the baby blue made the jacket look really pale and soulless. That made me change my mind and I combined my indecisiveness with one of the techniques we studied in today’s lecture – creating a clipping mask to give some texture to the garment. Personally I thought that woolen sleeves would look pretty cool, and the changes I made look like that:

Having a finished jacket did not actually feel so finished which made me try to give it some life by adding shades and wrinkles. First of all, I went back to the image I had chosen at the beginning and copied it to the same layer I was currently working on.

I started tracing off the areas where the fabric was wrinkled and reflected them to the left half of the canvas – it actually looked quite nice.

Finally, after removing the template image, my illustration looked the following way:

Not bad,actually…

Oliver McKenzie

Oliver McKenzie

Ape-Oli seemed to me to be really different as a brand because of its dedication to team sport and unity. With the statement Ubi concordia, ibi victoria.

Emily Wild

Emily Wild

Going through Emily’s idea, I realize she is trying to fill a gap in the market that is not as easy to fill as it sounds.

Izzie Crew

Izzie Crew

Someone who I noticed to have taken their brand to a really personal level is Izzie Crew. She relies entirely on her own experience and her own beliefs, which I think makes her product so special. Continue reading Izzie Crew

Izzy Lewis

Izzy Lewis

The story which Izzy has based her brand on moved me a little and I hope what I write is not too sentimental because it is project work after all. 

Lotty Gunning

Lotty Gunning

I decided my first interview post  to be about Lotty Gunning, as she was the first person I spoke to about their brand, although not the first person I interviewed.

Techniques for Design Thinking

Techniques for Design Thinking

 

Today we had a tutorial on Design Thinking that really inspired me and made me question who I actually am as a designer. After a few afternoons with tea and James Morrison music, and sportswear-american football-chocolate talks with my housemates, I finally came up with the three words that described both my presonality and my designer alter-ego.  Continue reading Techniques for Design Thinking