Extended Practice

Friday 22 May 2015

Thursday 21 May 2015

Student publication - All interviews and Replys

Fashion Year Book - Postcards communication students & Evaluation

Fashion - Postcards

Template:

Communication template

Design Examples:

Fashion Design and Realisation Pathway: Examples

Fashion Design and Realisation Pathway Final

Evaluation Fashion Year Book

My practice has really been influenced by fashion design this Year and has been important to me to make sure I make the most of my time in third year doing projects that will benefit my portfolio and me as a designer. When the fashion year book was mentioned I felt this would be a good opportunity for me to further my knowledge in layout design and see the difference from designing for a look book as apposed to designing an actual year book.

As me and Issy worked so well together for YCN Scavi and Ray we decided we would do the fashion year book together. At first when designing the year book it was fine as they wanted a scrap book theme it worked out pretty well it was very open to interpretation and we were able to place images and move them around and really see what worked best whilst getting feedback from Janie the fashion teacher.

We seem to have a lot of problems along the way there was always missing images due to having them on one of the teachers memory sticks so we kept having to pass them back and forth and things were becoming to get a bit messy. After the yearbook was finished and sent off we began the look book cards and kept having problems with the InDesign file it would crash unexpectedly and leave us with a corrupt file. We managed to resolve the problem but this did seem to put a dampener on the brief for Issy and I especially so close to the dead line this really have an effect on us. Although we did sign up for the brief I do feel as though everything was unorganised due to the fashion students being busy and not having there work till such times did have a knock on effect for us as we had our own things to be getting on with as well.

Strengths from the brief would be it has helped me to work better under pressure not with my own work but the pressure of trying to keep things organised and waiting around for content from people. I enjoyed working with Issy again and i feel like we managed the situations well. We had obviously underestimated the size of the brief but it has been beneficial and will look good in our portfolio.

Tuesday 19 May 2015

Adorned - Digital & Look Book Design.

Adorned Digital

The web development for the new mocked up page was really straight forward the clothes are very bright and bold so i felt having a simplistic layout worked best.

Web Layout Design:

Using a simple grid i used the same tab menu as the original website and placed that down one side.

I next dropped the images into the grid and put prices underneath the images with a small line so it was easily viewable that they were the tabs to click on.