Starting Level 6

Over the summer period, I felt apprehensive about how I would cope with the pressures of my final year on the Textiles In Practice course. However, I felt motivated to create a body of visual research that would allow me to really kick start my final year, as well as continuing with an idea that I had in a previous project which I felt could be developed further - Unit X from level 5 - which included geometric compositions from the entrance of a Bruntwood building we were redesigning.

57 Spring Gardens entrance - triangular peak - reasoning behind geometric approach.

Most of my initial ideas were developed through research on Pinterest, as well as looking into current interior design trends on store websites such as John Lewis and Next, as I feel this is where my work would sit within industry. During the previous Unit X project,  my group saw a trend in businesses using an 'accent' colour within their spaces. This is the reasoning behind my choice of colour palette including an accent colour. I have also recycled some of my Photoshop designs into drawings for the first project of level 6 - see below.

After receiving the Bradford Textiles brief, I felt it would allow me to experiment and play around with scale, and during my first tutorial, it became clear how I was going to develop my visual research into something appropriate to the brief. I came away from last weeks' tutorial and looked at CUSTHOM, a company that specialise in embroidered wallpapers. This is the kind of scale I want to try out through this four week project as I feel it will push me out of my comfort zone, not only by the scale but also the materials - I hope to combine paper prints with embroidery. I have not used the wide format printer before however, which is also outside of my comfort zone. I also realise that quite a lot of this project will involve Photoshop work, which I am a little unsure of still, but I will refer back to my technical file from previous years for help.