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.

RubyStarrs in Paris...

Finally we have made it to Paris. It was a bit of a long travel day - we decided to come by train so we could experience the full glory of British Rail or whatever it's called now which actually delivered perfectly on time... and then the Eurostar which was incredibly disappointing! All that beautiful St. Pancreas Station and the Eurostar is sited in the dungeon... overcrowded, dark, lousy facilitated space... and then the train was an hour late it felt like a long time before we got any fresh air - but eventually we wound up in gay Paree... We navigated the metro and found our airbnb gaff. A mere 70 steps to the fourth floor on a rather lovely winding wooden staircase to a very nice roof top flat which is comfortable and gives a view across a lovely Courtyard with some obviously much posher flats. It's located really centrally about two minutes away from the Opera Garnier so a very good location for getting everywhere...

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty backyards.... We got off th

Another Day in Norway where our Trusty Traveller finds Tromsø, Trolls and Totally misses Aurora....

Tromsø - the most northern city on the planet... Its quite a pretty little town with lots of wood fronted shops, but of course like everywhere like this, it is just one big tourist hive and every shop is selling 'indigenous' gifts- didthe Sami make aurora themed mugs and fridge magnets? Nearest I'll get a polar bear (i hope) Although I have to say I did like the big stuffed polar bear and black bear and I am presuming that these are either not real (unlikely) or culled as they sometimes have to be. But most of the stuff is just northern lights tat or Troll tat. Peer Gynt.. famous worldover To be fair the best bit of Tromsø for me was the Troll Museum! We went to the art gallery which was quite interesting (see instagram account) but not astounding, but I always like to look at the local art. We had a mooch around town in the snow and then we went to find the Trolls. This museum was absolutely crazy daft... it was totally dedi

Planet Ruby Starrs

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