I have been working digitally to design prints for this project, i have mostly found myself working on tropical florals. this was spurred by the 'iridescent tropicals' trend for SS17 and inspired from my thai travels.
For this design i used he hibiscus drawings and also a few lea drawings from a previous project at college that i still had saved in a layer bank.
i feel this print is effective because if fits the design requirements and would suit the market i am working towards. It fits the beachcomber trend for SS!& and the tropical trend also.
I have developed this design further into black and white. From that, i shall use the print to apply heat transfer dyes to, from there i use the print ton fabric. This technique will give the effect of digital printing, but with a more hand made feel and also is quick and easy to reproduce on a small scale.
Also this week, i printed my previous designs onto silk using digital printing. this is a new technique for me and i was quite excited to see the results. Once i hd collected my silk digital prints from the studio; inspired by the trend, i decided to add some foils to them to enhance the iridescence vibe. i found that this was really effective on the darker prints and also worked really well with the bronze foil. i will take this forward to my final designs and i feel they were very effective, fitted the design brief, theme and market. i decided to scrape the foiling glue on vertically as i have been working with this vertical image idea throughout my project, this was inspired by the long tiles of the grand palace.
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