Just before our presentaion to Tom on May the 9th, i wanted to quickly contribute some more samples to the group, just so we had more than enough choice. i decided to experiemtn with the sublimation printer as it is something i hadnt worked with before and i am a keen digital print designer, so this is a quick and easy way to apply digital design onto fabric. I used two of the macro images i had taken during the beginning of the project and adjusted the colours and shades on photoshop to match the colour palette we are working with.
From these i used the heat press to apply them to a range of synthetic fabrics as you can see below. During one of our sessions, natalie suggested we started to use beading on our samples so i have worked into these with beading also and it gives quite a pretty outcome with lots of texture.
Above: Sublimation onto white foamy mesh.
Below: Sblimation onto textured fabric with appliqued mesh and beading - one of my favourite samples from the sublimation experiments.
Third below: Sublimation on white scuba with bead detail. i really like how clear and deatiled the subliamtions are printed onto the fabric and is deffinatley somehting id like to work more with in the future.
I can see these samples being used on things such as tshirts, jackets and panels within these garments as well as all over. they would make interesting placement print ideas also. i feel these designs really emulate the rust and decay theme quite well because of their smokey deatils and scattered beading - everything is quite orgaincally placed much like rust and decay.
Unfortunatley, by the time i had completed these, i was a few hours too late for them to be used in the line up which we worked togther on after a session with Sarah and Natalie. We needed twelve looks so, together we placed all of out garment designs on a table and decided how many of each garment we needed and then picked which ones to chose from the selection. once again my designs were mainly overlooked bat a pair of shorts - and i am unsure as to why, however, we got the task completed and began to wok on the illustrations for the line up.
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