EVALUATION

I have found this project to be very challenging. It has pushed me out of my comfort zone and taught me new skills. I first found the thought of working with a group exciting, but if think my group took a while to get around to meeting up regularly and all doing our fair share of work, I feel that some have pitched in more than others. The latter half of the project I believe that we turned it around and produced an excellent portfolio of work. We have used all our strengths to our advantage, using all our best techniques to collaborate on a collection, which i believe is fantastic. I have learnt a lot from the other students I worked with on this project, my drawing and Photoshop skills have improved immensely, and I have been introduced to digital print. I have thoughally enjoyed this project and is think that my knit samples are very successful in that they are understated – simple but effective, especially my later ones which we have used majority in the final designs. On reflection I could have organised my time better, especially through the holidays so that I had time to do other things I had intended and could have developed my drawings further. I struggled with the technical drawings in this project, as I had never done them before, however with the help with the help of my group I was able to produce the flats of our designs for our final portfolio, which I was very pleased with. Overall, I think the project went very well, I have enjoyed it and look forward to collaborating with fashion students again.

TODAYS PRESENTATION

After the feeback from our presentation today, my group sat and worked out a pplan of action. The feedback was that our final designs where 'uncool' and 'didn't flow as a collection', here we have annotated how we can solve the current issues we are having before hand in next week.

on reflection the prints lash a little to much and it isn't quite the cool but quirky vibe we where going for. with these changes hopefully they will become what we first intended.

PLANNING DESIGNS

Design experimentation - As i dont have much experience in fashion design/illustration I have started to draw up some designs for possible contenders in the final line up.

I am covering both mens and womens wear, these designs need developing further, they aren't masculine enough, i want them toi be more oversized 'baggy'.

KNIT DESIGNS

I have developed more knit designs which are will be included in our final design line up. I have experimented with the shading of our colour pallet (previous image) and narrowed down the techniques so that they are simpler as I am collaborating with bust digital prints and it proved to much with both busy designs. my designs all though simple are very effective and i believe will pull the basis of the colllection together.