Digital Technology - Final Project

My final project for my first/only year at Ravensbourne was much more productive that I might have imagined. Put simply, the project was to encourage us to explore new ways of presenting our work 'digitally' and take a closer look at branding, competitors etc. Here's some of what i came up with:

Some quick prints using layers and staggering

I named my imaginary brand after Leonard EULER who was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physician seeing as my project was based around  geometry, physics and the such.

Models taken from RAD Hourani's work

We were told to make a final line-up of 10 pieces which obviously isn't much for a 8 week project but all on illustrator was a joke, Upon 100 design rough in the sketchbook.

I listed my competitors as Wooyoungmi, 
Rad by Rad Hourani, Songzio, Balenciaga 2008 Fall/Winter &
Aitor Throup

You can see it's been rushed a bit because not everything is in proportion etc. but you get the gist

-CC




P.S As promised here is my feedback at a C+/B- Grade

'Good verbal breakdown with supporting digital visuals. Strong competitor breakdown. Shockingly bad fabric board. The photoshop documents need to be saved as jpegs for presentation purposes. It is not acceptable for work to be presented as individual files. Digital work must be presented as a finished presentation in appropriate software. Work on this over the summer. Well the very positive thing to note here is that your work has improved dramatically. The standard of your digital work is impressive with very distinctive and original ideas that reflect cutting edge menswear aesthetic. However, time management and organisation/preparation remains an issue for you. The sketchbook is thin in content with no colour exploration. Work hard on addressing the remaining issues over the summer to put yourself at the top of your peer group for your level 2 experience. More content and organisation and consistency of quality!' 

Innovation Project

Recently, on my fashion design course we were given a project where we were told to be INNOVATIVE? Imagine?  Shouldn't we be doing so anyway? Enough rhetorical questions!

The Project was called 'The Shock of The New' you could either chose to be innovative or to shock. So people chose deformation, disease, transexuals etc. 

I chose Slavery as a theme. I was going to investigate how the modern black man ( business man)has lost his sense of purpose and has no grounding away from his roots in Africa. 

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Linking pin stripes with whips and chains/cufflinks jewellery with the gold taken from Africa. Interesting? Non?

Colin (my tutor) thought it was a bit cliche
cliché but I knew my innovative approach would avoid that. I'd already bought £10 worth of rope so I'm not changing the design direction.


I also looked for coffee bean sacks to give a rough worn look but no luck in Soho in any of the coffee shops so I had to buy some brand new from The Cloth House.




We also had to do a photo shoot at the end which went so-so considering the amateur photographer (my cousin) and the facilities that were available (the great outdoors) 




so here's here's best three

Front View

Back View

& some extras

Close-Up

1/2 outfit 1/2 casuals

The Stylist/photographer/ Assistant/Cousin

Textiles Elective

On the Fashion courses at Ravensbourne every student has to partake in an elective in which they're able to sample a different pathway the choices being


: Menswear
:Womenswear
:Fashion Promotion
& Textiles


I changed from Menswear to Textiles as textiles is a big part of my 'Aesthetic' as people say. Anyway, I failed regardless of the fact that my tutor Jenny Udale took a liking to them I didn't hand everything required which meant resubmission.


Here's some of the RESEARCH

Not incredibly cohesive but...


here's a couple of the PRINTS
& one of the FINAL PRESENTATIONs I did

Experimenting with shapes on a trouser silhouette 

  

  

     

Grade: F- or something but life goes on

My first T shirt

What's happened here is I went to Tooting and bought some Henna Ink and a turban ( Basically 1 metre squared of black fabric) but the Sikh man gave me stretch fabric and far too little of it.

Henna Ink

Broadway Market

I asked him twice (2 times) if it would be enough to cover my head and he nodded. M@dness!


I think this is a clear case of him thinking I was disrespecting his religion?


So Being the Creative person that I am I decided to take the horrible fabric and make a t shirt idea i've had in my head for a while.

Draping the style on the mannequin....didn't work

                           

Silhouettes

The Rank fabric

               

Chain Swang

My New Creepers

& Finally The T-shirt