I am definitely staying at A.U.C.B.

It is now definite that I will stay at A.U.C.B for the BA top-up year. I really like the sound of the new course and it would be sad to leave. The that the course is call design and technology appeals to me more than maybe other courses that do more fashion theory and research and essays; I would not enjoy a final year of my academic career doing a course that requires me to write something I am not interested in.

I also stated before that I am interested in creating my own business and I believe the entrepreneurial with help me to solidify my knowledge and creative skills to do so. However, I do also like the idea of a placement; as I was unfortunately let down with several placement oppoutunities last year. With this in mind and the fact that fashion is all about networking I think I will have to do some form of internship at some point.

Something from the amazing Stumble Upon!

These images are by a designer called Setareh Mohtarez. I will research this designer further for my collection his pieces reflect the pattern cutting techniques and effects in which I am intrested in.

Setareh Mohtarez, Brigtness Dawn Collection.

http://www.setarehmohtarez.com/index.php

Fashion As A Forum.

Presentation Task.

This was really interesting as I was unaware of the many locations of online fashion and was unaware of some of the exhibitions and shows that various designers and artists had created for fashion lovers. There are so many new and exciting ways of displaying and promoting fashion and I now know to think outside the box a little more.

One online source of fashion which my group and I looked into was Stumble Upon. I now believe that everyone should sign up to this and have a go it is really easy a good fun. Simply highlight the areas in which you are interested and click and enjoy. I chose photography, art, dance, music and obviously fashion as my topics.

Get Stumbling!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Flourish! Business Development Course.

I am really interested in setting up my own business so this course run by the Enterprise Pavilion at uni has been so beneficial to me! I am thoroughly enjoying the sessions run by Pete McKinnley, and I have learnt alot about the business world itself as appose to the fashion industry; where sometimes I can be only a little bit narrow minded!

My business ideas have strongly development throughout the programme and aim to produce a business plan to put forward my ideas to gain feedback and hopefully be assessed for the business start up fund available to graduates up to one year post graduation. I have included starting up my own business in the plan for my career and I hope that I will be able to successfully get my foot into the fashion industry's door after I graduate in 2012 and get myself a job and continue to increase my knowledge, experience and status/reputation within fashion. When I have enough money and feel I have gained all of the relevant information needed I will start my business.

Some serious fun that Hannah Bingham and I had.....After discovering a YouTube video of Adam Saax cutting some Ed Hardey t-shirts on a model, then pleating/tying/weaving together to create interesting and personalised garments.

I will include some of these customising ideas in my project as they are very quick and easy to create. They are very cheap and eco-friendly as they are produced from old and unwanted t-shirts. I hope to explore more possibilities within this styles with other garments also. I can't wait to model some of designs and record reaction to this 'punky' fashion.

Stumbleupon!

I was looking for some interesting illustrative ideas and I got lucky with this one.

It was also suggested to me that for the Professional Project I should look into surrealist artsists. I didn't want to go for the obvious and look at Dali.

The illustrator that I 'stumbled upon' is named Raquel Lissima and he has several inspirations for his work including personal, siblings and the ark project. I will look further into this artist and take ideas from his work for my designs and illustrations. I feel it is necessary for me to develop my illustrative style to increase the aesthetics of my design work.

Some other works of interest to me.....

Cool Photo shoot.

This mysterious object which looks like something straight out of a science fiction movie is actually an artpiece called Superficial by French artist Michel de Broin, and it’s located in the forest of Vosges in France.
Upon invitation to reflect on the notion of transparency, that led me into the forest to envelop the contour of a large stone with fragments of mirror. The large stone, tucked away deep in the woods, became a reflective surface for its surroundings. In this play of splintered radiance, the rock disappears in its reflections. Because it reflects one cannot be mislead by its presence, yet we cannot seize it, rather it is the rock that reflects us.

I stumbled across this artist/photographer whilst looking for smashed glass and mirrored images for my Draping Project. I typed in made of mirrors into Google after Karen sent me an image of a 'man made of mirrors' a sculpture from www.kurisitas.com.