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.

Alesund

Our final destination stop was Alesund. This is a very pretty town in southern Norway built on a peninsula. All the houses are painted pretty colours and a lot of the architecture is all very Art Nouveau based. This is because the town itself was completely burnt to the ground In 1904 by a fire for which they never found the original cause. The whole town had to be rebuilt and this became a huge National Effort and a lot of prominent and up and coming architects flocked to the town to stick there 20 pence in. Consequently the town is very heavily Art Nouveau which was very fashionable at the time. There is this wonderful Museum just off the harbour which is a very beautiful Art Nouveau house. It has amazing panelling, doors, wallpaper, and it's all furnished with beautiful art Nouveau Furniture. It also house a collection of of enameled Art Nouveau Trinkets,boxes, spoons, jewellery, very very beautiful. There is an interesting collection of old books and paintings a...

Isle of Bute

Another Landmark Trust tick - this time Ascog House on the Isle of Bute - stunning as always... a very comfortable warm accommodation for the usual 8 suspects. This time we had a wee tower house for Dr Fred and myself - a lovely bedroom up the stairs with a big window and a bathroom al to ourselves - having said that all the other bedrooms in the big house were large and serviced by two bathrooms so there was no hardship for any visitors! The grounds of the house were very extensive with ponds and secret passages - hidden paths and we even spotted a deer late afternoon - there were lots of old features - ornate staircases and a lovely hidden door which I did a quick sketch of. Bute provided quite a lot of entertainment as well - the weather was kind and we did a a muddy wander down the south of the Island taking in St Blanes Monastery and Kilcannon Bay. The views were spectacular and it was fabulous to be out in the fresh (and it was fresh on the tops) air and we...

The Blue Dot

Excellent evening spent at the first Blue Dot festival held at Jodrell Bank. Clever use of the radio telescope as back drop for the main stage... there were some major teething issues which hopefully will addressed if this event happens again - mainly access and parking.. it was a nightmare approach to the festival and fortunately as we were only doing one night we decided to ditch the car and chose to walk the last mile and half into the site... what a relief as if we had queued we would most certainly missed Public Service Broadcasting which was one of the reasons we were going.. anyway we caught them and then enjoyed fantastic set by Underworld - danced much of the night away in the rain - my trusty solfest poncho almost kept me dry.. it was a splendid evening and the telescope looked brilliant when lit up when it got dark. There was a rather fab "installation" called a luminarium, lack of site information - another hiccup meant we were really lucky to catch it just ...

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