Group Workshop... COLLABORATING OUR IDEAS

Today was a chance for us to spend the day working with each other and collaborating our two ideas and concepts. Philip Lord, who I am working with in this collaborative part of the project, has been looking at miscommunication and misperception within language. Below is a mind map of our ideas of portraying both our concepts through one design idea.






After talking through our individual concepts and ideas, we are both very interested in the pattern cutting techniques in the 'T-Shirt Issue' garments. We both want to take our designs down a pathway of creative and innovative pattern cutting techniques (as opposed to technology) to help inform a language (that we will create) through structure and silhouette. Our aim is to create a 3D form through pattern cutting in a similar way to that of the 'T-Shirt Issue' where in our case, geometric shapes will have meaning and create something else within the garment that may by misinterpreted by the wearer but overall will represent either a word or phrase through a language within the fabric pieces.


We had a play around with simple geometric shapes to create a 3d structure from paper that we placed around the body in order to change the silhouette. Pleased with the result, we made one up, 1/2 scale size in a grey cotton and attached it to a basic front and back dress block.

As you can see from the photos above, in fabric it worked just as well with a nice soft touch to the edges.