Planet Ruby Starrs

Its all hands on deck full steam computers ahead and final designs are starting to emerge.... they are a little bit scary!!! Having spent a week or more colouring in digital images  - trying to establish a colour palatte that matches my original mood board I've come up with 15 shades based on 5 colours and while I personally think my mood board was almost sophisticated my designs are coming out completely bonkers!!! This is not entirely unintentional, my concept was to use traditional quaint porcelain posh ornaments as seen in the Bowes Museum collection and transform them into funky, naive, contemporary designs and that's pretty much what I have done! The colour palate however has got very vibrant - very primary - gaudy to say the least - but I got to the point when I thought if I want bonkers designs and gloriousness then there are no half measures. Its a slamitin Ruby style again!! I've done some market research and find that my work could well sit (colourw...

Two very productive and enjoyable days at college doing lots of things I really like doing... sticking glueing, drawing. Our brief this module is to design two different scarves in different colourways.   Lots of the drawings I've been doing over the summer and more recently have come together to build a final overall design.  I have experimented with lots of different placement ideas using iconic liberty scarves, and other designers - Hermes, Swash and Lacroix for inspiration.  I've played with simple repeat designs in a William Morris style, they were pleasing but not quite right.   I tried changing the scale and making a picture scarf inspired by Swash scarves and it started to look more interesting.  potential (discarded) scarf design But in the end I decided to go with Lacroix inspiration and do a bold linear design for one scarf and a random large border design to be hand coloured for the second design. To this end I have spent all day ...