Enterprise Approach

Throughout the project I wanted to find myself a Interior placement, I have been researching into different brands and companies and also looking for interior internships and jobs for when I graduate university. 
I have been researching into companies such as; Curve Interior, 360 InteriorDesign, Lynx Interior Design Group, NoChintz and so on.. Sending them individual emails about how I love their company and their work. 

Even though I haven't been able to grab myself a placement, I am still pleased that now the companies do know who I am and know that I am interested in their companies maybe for the future when something else comes available. I am putting myself out their in the world of interior design. 

Web Design

With the end near of university I do now need my own website what I can out on my own individual business cards, it is a much easier way for companies or maybe other freelance designers to be able to see my work and if there interested they can get in contact with me, I am using Wix web design and am hoping my website will be able to be published and out their very soon before I finish university. I am working on a simple layout which showcases each individual piece of work with a title and description.  

I have also set up my own Instagram account for my designs only and have been following designers and they have also been wanting to follow my even though I have put in the description box that the new page is still undergoing being made by myself. Social media is such a big thing in today's society and I think this will be a huge networking place for me I can also keep up to date with others designers work and see what's out there in the design world. 

Instagram Page: ANNIEBAKER_PRINTDESIGNER

Desiging

Throughout the project I have been continuously designing with the drawings I have been doing trying to use my colour way to add more dimension into some of my designs;  

Here are two images from the collections I have been working on, the first image being from my more textured and surface collection which I will be including the more delicate surface images inspired by the patterns on the New Harlequin Range with more intricate patterns. 

My second image is one design from my second collection which definitely has more bold, blocked shapes and patterns. These images show the different feels and moods my collections will show and how different I can portray the same chosen colour pallet and make it look different in different designs.








With all designs I will be making them all into different colour ways and printing before deciding for definite which colours I will choose for the final design. I think this way is much more professional as I have learnt from this in the past as colours from Photoshop don't always print out the way you see them on the screen so I have time to prepare myself for changing some different colours. 

Liesl Pfeffer

Lisel Pfeffer is a visual artist who uses collaging and drawings to express himself in a playful way, he also loves photography and has an ongoing project of photographing his daily life He believes photographs are an accurate show of documents of our lives. 
He has inspired me to take a different direction with my drawings in the way that he is more playful and expresses himself, I then decided to be more playful and just start enjoying my drawings and being more free. 

Inspired by Pfeffer I then began to draw my own expressive drawings;

To be more playful I decided to draw with different types of media I found around my house such as; cotton buds, string, different shaped utensils and it really helped me to enjoy my drawings more and made the drawings expressive. I was able to explore shapes and lines that I never had before.
Here is one drawing I did using an old comb, pulling the paint on the page on a circular motion, it shows surface and texture with also adding shape which I have been trying to achieve so I am really pleased with how these playful drawings have turned out. 

Colour

Harlequins new range has really helped me with choosing my colour pallet; Anthology 03 has various designs of texture, surface and shapes. I'm not really sure on their colour pallet choices as they seem a bit dark and frosty so this has now inspired me to make my designs bold and powerful so they stand out from the crowd. I can see the clear lines of shapes and each different bit of surface, the prints are very clear and I also cant see where the repeat design starts, this is something I know I need to work on when designing my own and to have this new Harlequin range to look back at will really help me along the design process. 

CORBRA; Harlequin new range

 My final colour pallet has come from some researched inspiration off pintrest; inspiration that I will also be using throughout the project whilst drawing and designing and looking at the Harlequin new range has help a lot when choosing which colours I should use.

I have chosen these colours because I want to try and create different surface and textures in my designs with colour and I think these shades of colour can so this, to do this I have chosen lighter and darker shades of the same colour to see if I can maybe add some more depth to my designs, give a sense of a 3D quality on a flat wallpaper design. 

Abstract

Peter Krauskopf has inspired me to to take another different route with my drawings and prints, I want to use my pallet knife to do some more abstract prints and I thought Krauskopf use of colour was a really good way to make simple lined drawings into colourful shadowed prints. 

Peter Krauskopf

Adding more abstract lines, texture and surface into my drawings will bring another element of design for my collection. 

I am now starting to think I could build on 1 or 2 collections with all of the different ranges of drawings I have and have been jotting down some ideas; One collection being very surface and texture inspired, a second collection being abstract with my block shapes and textures and maybe a third. 
Doing this shows I can design different ranges of wallpapers and designs with different shapes textures and patterns.
Trying to aim for three mini collections shows I am willing to broaden my skills and show what I can achieve as a designer, I think this will help me gain a new understanding for what it could be like in the design world, having not one collection to design but three.  

Mark Making

For this project my aim is to add shape into my surface and textured drawings, being inspired by my photographs and previous mark making in the Practise Unit I decided to make marks using a brush strokes with a ruler so I could still get the ruff edge and messiness with adding the straight abstract edge with the ruler. 
The straight line at the edge of the paper adds another element to the drawing rather than it being just a simple brush stroke on a page.

I really think this technique has worked, I can see all the small grains of the brush stroke and then with the straight line I like how it has made it into more of a shape than just a simple brush stroke. I did this mark by moving the brush to the left, I also want to try moving the brush up and down. I am going to carry on with this technique making more bigger marks and also smaller marks to see the difference and compare them.

The second image is me trying to trap the brush stroke and I think this is really effective, again it isn't like any other simple brush mark. By creating a simple square shape with tape I have created a completely different mark, with this I am also adding shape into my mark making drawings.

Evaluation

At the start of the project I was very certain with what theme/route I wanted to take. Surface and texture have always been a part of my work so I took the opportunity as I could when being able to write my Learning Agreement.

I started by taking my own inspirational photographs from around my own area and from Fletcher Moss Gardens. I was very pleased with them and wanted to look at them throughout the project to pull surface from them and also manipulate them in Photoshop.

Exploring surface really took off when I started my drawings, I used all different types of media such as, and pallet knifes sponges, stencils, paint brushes and different types of pens. I also done all my drawings in black and white so I could give myself time to really research my colour pallets. I wanted two collections showing neutral and bold designs and I really think my final collection show that.

My live project was Pattern Mash, Marbelous Malfunction. I decided to take a different route rather than a digital wallpaper design and designed my own marbled coasters, I designed a range of 6 and I really enjoyed doing this and am considering doing something like this for unit x.

Overall I am really pleased with how I have managed my time keeping and I’m also pleased with the work I have produced. I am proud to put to put my designs in my portfolio for future references.