Lucy Madeline Watson

I came across Lucy Madeline Watson’s work on the second floor of the degree show, she is a student that studies Animation and illustration. I choose not to write a review on another print designer because I was drawn and inspired by Watson’s imagery and motion picture. Watson had displayed canvases of imagery of water that she filmed at a local aquarium called Liquid Indigo and a moving image piece called Cube Projection Mapping based on the poem 'Aquatic Nocturne' by Sylvia Plath This piece was inspired by the line: Deep in liquid indigo. I was drawn to the mood and motion of her work. Her film was complex and well thought out and identified as moving shapes that I found therapeutic and interesting.

Along with my print designs I make fashion films as an advertisement of my print designs constructed in a creative way, I could see a correlation of her theme of work to how I work with my films. I enjoyed the complexity of her creative motion film, I found her work to be exciting as a moving design that morphs into different colours. Her film and her canvas pieces had a mood that gave off a therapeutic approach. In my film work I wish to make my viewers feel something while they are watching the film. While watching her film it dazzled me with the different movements[AP1]  and colours and she has truly developed an exciting piece.

Watson has taken a simple context such as water and made it complex. Her editing skills are advanced with motion picture editing and I feel that she has outstanding work by making her motion picture look like a final finished print design that entails movement. I found her calming blue colours in her canvas work were presented well and her mirroring work to be intelligent and precise.

From the Degree show this piece of work stuck with me the most and I wish to create a film that will stick with people and I want them to be visually moved by my fashion films. I feel that Lucy Madeline Watson’s work has inspired me to create a complex film that entails moving designs. I found it interesting how she displayed her film as a 3D cube and that she thought outside of the box, to display her work. I want to create the same approach in my film work.

Elain Mair

When I came across Elain’s work (print design student for high fashion) I was mostly impressed by her row of print designs. She had a rack of carefully prepared prints and images supporting her designs and a photograph of her designs on a garment. I was impressed by her collection of luminous colour print designs. She chose her colours well for each print design and had made all of her prints look unique, with a correlating theme through each design. From my observation she had playfully created prints from her own painting and photographs and had mirrored them to create final corresponding designs. I identified her designs as a floral theme enriching in repeated print and print placement. Elain Mair has the ability to take an organic raw object such as her floral designs and manipulate the object, transforming the object into a modern futuristic design using bright complementary tones, complex lines and edgy shapes.  I am inspired how she is able to take an organic object and make it look exciting and bold. I find her drawing and designs crazy and expressive but there is still a high quality of profession and neat craft. I was mostly impressed by her business card and her logo that was displayed on the front. It had definitely showed contemplation and careful thought. I found Mair’s work to be a high standard and I felt that her work did not represent a work of a student but a work of a designer that works for a high street company such as Topshop. I find her work to be that of a professional designer work, her identifiable skills of Photoshop and Illustrator are diverse. She used good range of primary resources and her theme of work authenticated as electric and energetic. In Mair’s work I found that she is able to take organic natural colours and collage theme with futuristic metallic colours. From seeing her work at the degree show I was inspired by her ideas of taking the organic and natural and making it manmade I wish to demonstrate a strong theme in my work that show a contrast of two different ideas that can be created into a correlation. I was also impressed by her bold metallic colours that crafted her work as exciting and vibrant I wish to use bold vibrant colours that transforms my designs into a concept that is electrifying. For my degree show in a year to come I wish to develop my Photoshop and Illustrator skills to as a high level like Elain Mair.

Grace Davies

I was attracted to Grace Davies’s (print design student for high fashion) work at the 3^rd year degree show, her work demonstrates a theme of materiality and an investigation of new and innovative materials used in architecture and design. She demonstrates ‘Manipulated Materials’ I find this concept inspiring and diverse. Grace both had a look-book and designs on the wall, what had drawn me to her work was the materials such as foam and wood upon the floor to me this signified original thinking and a bold but confident statement to demonstrate along with her designs. I am inspired by her quality and complexity of her print designs, in my designs I wish to work as Grace Davies does within her highly complex detailed print designs. Grace Davies’s look-book was outstanding in my opinion she had taken the concept of future forecasting and developed it to her strong ideas with material and colour. I was attracted by her bold colour and shapes that she produced in her look book it made her portfolio exciting. She demonstrates high quality concepts within her look-book by mixing drawing, pictures of materials and print designs to create a collage that almost tells a story about her development of her work. Her consumer is aimed at a high fashion audience and I find it highly intelligent how she is able to demonstrate raw materials and manipulated them to a high fashion quality. As I wish to show my process of design through film I feel that Grace’s work has inspired to demonstrate modern designs that take upon the future of fashion.  It is clear that she has experience in fashion and textiles and she is inspired by exciting shapes and colour.  I find her designs almost therapeutic to the eye as she uses complementary colours that show a rhythmical balance in her designs.  In my work I wish to manifest bold and complex ideas that demonstrate a modern theme. I could see a connection in Grace’s work that shows a process that is modern and edgy approach in her designs that I feel is similar in my process of work. Davies has inspired me to create a look-book along with my final designs and a film that demonstrates movement, and rhythm within my concept. I was impressed by the hard work that had gone into her degree work and her work showed thinking outside the box and that is how I wish to approach my degree work in the future.