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.