Pick 'n' mix (week two)

During the second week I began to develop my print and technique by scanning in my hand samples of plastics; merging sweet wrappers, lolli pops sweets, plastic bags with PVC I was able to convert it into a digital format to work from manipulating my designs on the stand and also in my sketchbook. 

Pick 'n' Mix

The words I have chosen to base this project around are: The Corner shop in the Personal column, Alice in wonderland in the Creative column, for processes I have chosen Heatpress, Digital Print, Pattern cutting, Stand work & drawing and the Materials; Non woven fabrics and plastics. 

I began my initial research by mind mapping my two main themes in order to break down the meanings and extract the not so obvious factors. I focused around the symbolic factors in Alice in Winderland the idea of this novel written by Lutwdge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll of it being an adult book rather than a children's fantasy book due to recurring symbols of drug use. 

My concept was to create a series of prints, drawings and designs to accompany my final garment design keeping it under the influence of child's play/ fantasy, keeping it fun. 

The above image shows observational sketches of symbols mentioned in the novel and also shown in the movie 'Thr mushroom is Magic' suggests Hallucegenics as well as the 'red pill & blue pill' which during the 19th century was the era of legal opium use. I began to link the idea of the 'mushroom' with a mushroom cloud also known as the effect of an atomic bomb. 

This sample was achieved recycling sweet wrappers placing them between two sheets of PVC almost as though preserving them just as the the novel preserved the young adolescents youth and culture as they reminisce in their older years passing down the story.

1960's British youth subculture

Mods & Rockers

During the first week I was researching around my chosen theme I've decided to go with looking into Mods and and their fashion statement and their conflicting culture clash with the Rockers during the 1960's, the seaside riots where it all began the medias coverage and exageration of the situation and the transition to London. the Mod subculture was solely based on fashion and music whilst the rockers was ventured on motorcycling. 

I decided to go down to camden as this area is filled with fashion of the 1960's era the leather of the Rockers, motorcycles, platform creepers and Dr Martens which the Mods wore simply to get inspirations and hopefully catch modern day take ons of the fashion during the 1960's. I was also able to do first hand observational line drawings of the scenery and crowds down Camden market and Carnaby street when it thrived during the 1960's. The observational drawings mainly in pen so I can further develop them int the following week.