Fashion and Textiles exploratory day 1

My samples

The first task that we were given to do on the Fashion and textile rotation was to create 5 samples. These samples could be constructed based around texture, font or structure. I decided to first explore font to find different ways to make typography into a 3D structure - however I did find this challenging and after several attempts I also tried creating a simple structure. We were given a hour to create these samples - they were made from paper which meant we could in cooperate different types of paper such as: plain paper, brown paper, coloured, paper from magazines, newspapers and  other people brought in material such as tissue paper and wrapping up paper. Using paper which had different images printed over it gave a nice effect to the sample which the plain paper didn't - however for a majority of my samples I used brown paper as it had a nice quality which let me fold it. 

 

 

 

Even though some of my samples didn't necessarily work the way I would like, it enabled me to experiment and trail and error until I got a idea which was much stronger. Here are some of the samples that I created during my hour of experimentation. They are all quite different and have different elements.

 

 

 

This is my response to produce a 3D structure focused on 'font.' This is a 'G' which I was inspired by my timeline I created in the research week. My timeline had curved shapes which wrapped around certain areas of the design. I liked this and so decided to include this within this particular experiment. Furthermore I felt the brown paper had an earthly look and thought that creating this enchanted look gave the sample a intriguing characteristic. I decided to give the letter the 3-D effect by slicing a corner and then folding the triangle up so that it produced a layered effect. Furthermore it felt like scales which could give further connection to the enchanted look it already has.

 

Here is another sample which I really liked because it had a nice shaped which was easy to adjust by folding the outer arts of the curved lines. Furthermore this sample stood out among some of the others since it had the best body - the 3D element was key to the design. Furthermore it is different from different angles - for instance inside the shape was a tunnel which absorbed light and shadow which was really interesting.