To be honest I did have my preconception of fashion and textiles; I didn’t like what most fashion stood for (expensive clothing that makes you look stupid) and wasn’t looking forward to this project. However once I got into it I found myself enjoying the subject; our brief was to create a fashion or textile outcome from a character or muse of our choice using old shoes and bags. I originally started by picking Will.I.Am as my muse creating a leather jacket, as most of my items where leather-based. I started making mini jackets due to the time, pinning bits of bag and shoe to make mini compositions.

It was from this exercise that I was able to figure out my final composition for my jacket which seemed to have a female silhouette due to the shape of the mannequin but the outcome wasn’t all that bad. My friend Sophia had done this project before me and has a better understanding of fashion than me; it was her who infromed me to work on the contour of the mannequin as the designs tend to reveal themselves after some manipulation. As I worked in miniature i had finished my first jacket; which then led me to further carry on producing two more jackets. Overall my precoception of fashion has completely as i never realised how much textiles influences my work, because of this i will always keep in mind a textiles outcome to some of my work. Below are the three jackets I produced for this project.

All compositions together

I’ve learnt a lot from 3D design of what type of artist I am. I know that I like the idea of making something out of nothing so the idea of making something 3D was great. For this week I had to Make a 3D piece of work from a book that had influenced me in any way. I chose the Guiness World Records 2009 as  my starting point as i love pointless information; it contains facts that you don’t really need to know but could find interesting. As a child i would look through the whole book sometimes reading all the recordsm page by page, yet at the end i would forget 95% of the records set only remembering the most unusual and factoral records that interested me the most.

for my final piece i came up with the conclusion that the book just contained TOO MUCH INFORMATION… so my piece would reflect this.

This was my final piece for this project; the title being “Too Much Info” reflecting my observation of the book. My main inspiration was Su Blakwell who inspired me to include pieces such as the typography in the piece and the use of the 2D cut outs to make my final composition. The Pictures Below are of different views of the book 😀

First off I had NO IDEA THIS EXISTED… It was a great experience doing a subject of art that i never thought of. Vis Com is SO relevant to the art world of today as it includes illustration, advertising, fashion, graphic design etc.. My Topic was making a cup of tea; it didn’t have to be the literal meaning of physically making tea; it could have been expanded to where tea was first discovered where it’s grown etc. I chose to go with the where it’s grown route. I did my research recording my work as I went on; however it is only during my conversation with a tutor which changed my view completely about tea production. He told me of the hidden hardships of the tea making business and how workers would get virtually nothing according to western analysis; which is typical of raw material manufacture, where the true profit comes from the process of advertising and selling tea.

Tea leaves are naturally sharp and tiny as it’s the new shoots that are picked to make tea. Workers, after hours of picking, are left with cut, bloody hands, something I never thought would be an outcome of tea picking. It’s because of this why I wanted my final work to have this message of brutality, all in the pursue of cheap tea. My final piece was a series of posters with the slogan IT’S JUST BLOODY TEA as my way of communicating my message. I wanted to explore the different ways i could portray this, and if i had more days (as we only had a week 😡 ) i would have produced more poster ideas applying the use of negative space as most of my compositions are quite busy; however the message is carried across as it shows the chaotic nature of tea production.

This was my initial idea having a visual hand in the poster, however i felt that this idea was to basic and GCSE… so i carried on exploring how i could compose the poster in a more commercial way while still haveing the message portrayed clearly.

I really enjoyed Vis Com and would have loved to explore more ways of manipulating this project, i tried adding tea to the actual poster and some compositions worked well.