Back to the extremely enjoyable daily college grind....

At uni we are deep in design development and its great fun, although I am a bit all over the place with so many ideas flying about and so many good resources to draw on.  The intention is to design 6 individual collections of scarves each collection having at least 4 designs and several different colorways - this of course could change to 4 collections with 6 cohesive designs - but....that's the word that's causing me a slight discomfort at the moment they is absolutely nothing reassembling cohesion in my current work at the moment.

colourways for men on the moon

Some of the imagery is beginning to translate as a collective design but I need to rein in the colour palate or at least make it consistent to each collection.  The collections themselves are at the moment very individual, linked only because I have designed them!! It is early days yet and I will keep experimenting and laying images and producing some lay outs and hope that in the long term the collections will emerge and identify somehow as'cohesive'.

loving this but I cant use it as the tiger is another artists but I just wanted to play... its a homage...  the chicken in a basket will show up somewhere,,,

I have a vast array of resources I collated for my minor project - drawn, painted, stitched and photographs and my interpretations of them are limitless.  I hope to be able to convey my ideas about juxtaposition and the invitation for people to view things slightly differently.   Its harder than I imagined it would be to make the move to put odd things together and I'm not sure if this is because it breaks the norm or whether in fact (my preferrred option) I just do that anyway, so going the extra extra diverse way is quite hard for me personally!!

I don't think the toads in the jars work but I love the giraffes

I have never liked matching things and work on the principal that mix as much as you can and eventually it will unmatch perfectly.   This applies to my design work and one of the reasons I find repeat pattern work quite hard to live with - hence my preference for placement designs, be they singly multiple, mirrored or random.  My concept centered around juxtaposition allows me to be as odd as I need to be and experimental with the content I can sit side by side.

I am also trying to appeal to a wider audience, while not wanting to be too commercial I recognise I need to consider potential markets so I am experimenting with quieter designs.... not sure they will make the final cut!!

this is a combination of a collage I did of a church roof and a drawing of a marigold from my garden.

The combinations of my resources are endless, I love just playing about with placements and colour  and I have decided to allow myself a free for all until the end of the week when I need to get disciplined and start reining the design work in so I can concentrate on quality rather then quantity.