After the day's workshops, I finally managed to catch up with Fiona later in the afternoon. It is slightly irritating that workshops always coincide with tutorials, as it means that i'm unable to see how everyone else is getting on and share my ideas to help them with their projects and vice versa, but there's not a lot that can be done about it. On the other hand I really enjoy one to one tutorials as it means I can just focus on my own work, spend time asking more questions, and come away with a clearer direction of exactly what needs doing in the week ahead.
Today's key points;
GLUE GUN/ YARN STRANDS. The glue gun samples were a success, creating interesting pattens; the next step was to decide how to present them- could I possibly embellish onto them, wrap yarns around them, use invisible threads to secure them down, maybe print with them? The list goes on, and as usual my head was spinning with ideas. The same applied with the photocopies of the knotted yarns, and also the original samples, how could they be developed and presented... This is something I'm going to have to play around with, to achieve the best results.TWO BRIEFS IN ONE? At the moment the two projects are becoming very similar, so I need to jump back a few steps, and go back to my research stage of my personal brief and start drawing my knots again. The two briefs don't have to have the same colour schemes, so working on a new one for my live project will be done both this week, and in next week's colour workshop.
BRING THE KNOTS BACK. The joke is back again, my knots seem to have gotten lost in the development process; I have been so focused on the lace side of my work they seem to have momentarily been pushed out of the frame, losing the personal side to my brief. As stated above, I need to go backwards this week and produce some drawings, attempting to re-ignite my knotted ideas.
SAMPLES. I was really touched when Fiona said that she thought that I had grasped the cornely really well and that the samples from the previous unit had a lot of potential to spark ideas for this unit, so I need to get myself back on the machines, which I've said will be my main focus over the next three weeks.
BRIEF WRITING. As we are getting further into the project, I need to start thinking about properly writing up my personal brief. Of course as I have been going along I have had a clear idea of what it is I want to get out of this project, I just need to device a final written brief at some point this week.
ELIE SAAB. Today has been the first time that I have brought in any work to do with the Dash and Miller brief, and I have been struggling in regards to what needs to be included in the portfolio. The key ideas around the portfolio need to be the designer's style, colour schemes, materials and compositions- which will be researched in more depth this week.
The tutorial has given the basis for a lot of work and research for the week. I am going to mainly be focusing on getting to grips with the advanced 121 machines, drawings for my personal brief, and general experimentation (as well as brief writing, Elie Saab researching and goodness knows what else. Watch this space!....)