Designing for Fashion Textiles
Just a little over seven months ago, I started a BA Hons in Design (Surface).
In that small amount of time, my life has changed dramatically and I have grown so much as a designer. I have found new mediums to work with and experimented with new techniques as well as spending my days hanging out with some awesome people.
Although I am still a Photoshop and Illustrator geek… and I will ALWAYS be ‘MAC’ till I die… I have found a new love for drawing and filling sketchbooks….a new love for research and trends. But one of the biggest new loves I have found is that for Fashion Textiles.
I had always embarked on this journey to use my designs as pretty papers, wallpapers, accessories, cushions and homeware, but now I see them on hangers in Topshop, River Island and All Saints.
With that in the back of my mind and the persuasion of others, I have chosen to specialise my degree in ‘Fashion Textiles’ as oppose to ‘Surface Design’.
Been at Uni has really opened my eyes and Surface is so much more than my vision of ‘Print’, it is all about ceramics, 3D, Plaster, Metal…intergrating all manners of surface to play an important part in the final design.
Whilst Fashion Textiles is all about the manipulation of fabric from print through to its cut and hang….i love it!
I am so excited by this little turn in direction and can’t wait to show you some of my work for the previous two modules.
I’ve been so busy creating and having fun, there is plenty to come!
Claire Smillie - Creativity Rocks 