|CONCLUSION OF UNIT|
When I first started this unit I had no belief in designing for menswear, I saw Toms work of what he had done in James Long and how he did his designing and I was thinking that I would really be starting out designing for women.
Starting off being Group 1 was difficult because we had little time to create a theme idea to show to Tom, which made us panic and choose at a rush, but he ended up liking one of the pictures we presented to him so we stuck to that after-wards.
As a group, we created a Pinterest board and I feel like that really helped us all to see what ideas we all had and what we could bring up in conversation when we met up what we like and what we didn't like.
Our theme changed when we all watched the movie Train-spotting, because whilst watching the film we took screen shots of interesting parts where we saw the interior and exterior of the housing they were in, when we got a good picture of some of the garments they were wearing and when there were some clear shots of Ewan’s face for our muse research.
After Ashleigh came up with some interesting prints we finally figured out what colours we would be sticking to and when the prints came together with different colours it really helped us with designing and collaging as it gave us a load of ideas for what we can do next for the line-up and garment designs.
The few things I enjoyed about this unit was working for menswear, after drawing and designing for men I realised that it was quite easy to get the hang of, and it has given me the idea of possibly, maybe designing using a hint of masculinity for year 3.
The group work was hard to get used to at first because of how different it was to work with TIP and Fine Art.
Also along with having one of our fashion member go on a placement after the first week or so of the unit then a member of textiles drop out of the unit, I felt like as a group only having 4 of us in made it just a little bit more difficult for us to have a lot of work as a group.
Another point for this unit was the workshops and I felt like we would have done so much better in sample wise if we had been able to attend the workshop if we wasn't inducted as I felt it restricted us completely because we didn't have a member inducted in knit, so that opportunity for us wasn't reached. I wish that it could have been possible as one of our group members missed out on creating knit samples for our group, I think the reasoning was one of the textiles girls who was inducted in knit, didn't fully attend until she dropped out, meaning no other member was able to then take that knit workshop.
After the final presentation with Tom I have learned so much about designing and working towards a designer, having his point of view voiced out to us helped us realise what we had done right and what we had done wrong and I feel like that will help me through to year 3.
On the other hand, working on a group file and then a personal file, I felt I struggled because I focused so much on working towards presenting in the group file than my own work, but the blog has helped me to look back on how my work progressed.
