Vintage...

Hope your all having a nice and lazy sunday!

Currently I am working on a vintage project, with its end market targeted at quirky and fun greetings cards. For my initial drawing development I have been around the city and taken photographs of vintage design and objects to draw from. Some objects have really interesting shapes and patterns and I am hoping to draw from this later on.

Enjoy! Kelly :)

Collections courtesy of Retro Boutique and Leeds City Museum.

Look out for...

...my post on Rachael Taylor's design blog tomorrow!

Here's a sneak peek:

Image courtesy of Pretty Bitter.

Enjoy! Kelly :)

Wizard of Oz...

Hey guys!

I am very late with this, but hopefully I will keep more on top of the blog now!
Anyway, here is my most recently completed project on the Wizard of Oz. We were given the concept of journey and of course my child brain automatically comes up with the journey of Dorothy, the Tinman, the Lion and the Scarecrow :) My final market was to create digitally printed wallapaper and interior furnishing designs. Enjoy!

Excitin'!

I have some exciting news, as of next Monday I will be a guest blogger on Rachael Taylor's design blog! Being in my third year and constantly researching I will definately have some interesting inspiration and design ideas to post about! So look out for me!

Find Rachael's blog and my weekly Monday posts here!

Enjoy! Kelly :)

Busy Bee...

Well I've been a busy bee on my work placement for the lovely Rachael Taylor, and hopefully I've left a good impression. I was grateful to be given the time to create some interesting posts for her very popular blog, check them out here.

I was sad to finish but she gave me some lovely presents to console me!

Thank you Rachael!

Kelly:)

Autumn/Winter trends 2013

Hey folks.
As part of my work placement with the lovely Rachael Taylor I have been researching trends for Autumn/Winter 2013. The search has thrown up some consistent trends such as geometrics, alongside more quirky trends such as 'Curiosity' as featured by trend bible.

http://www.aliceatwonderland.blogspot.com/

http://beauty.bgfashion.net/article/6037/34/Top-print-ideas-for-Autumn-Winter-2012-2013-from-Printsource

http://www.trendbible.co.uk/blog/home-trends/home-trends-autumn-winter-201213/#comment-1765

I particularly enjoy the trends featured by trendbible for adults and children, the quirky and fun 'hunter/gatherer' vibe is kooky and plays on something new for print and pattern. I specifically love the earthy colours and tones chosen to accentuate the animal motifs and blocky geometric patterns.

Enjoy.

Kelly :)

For shame...

It’s been a while folks but very exciting stuff to come. Yours truly starts a placement with reputed textile designer Rachael Taylor in a few days, and can’t wait to get stuck in!

So the next couple of weeks I will be posting about my experience working with the lovely lady, and I apologise in advance if I sound like a kid in a sweet shop!

Until then I will update the blog with my most recent work from my second year of studying Textile Design at Uni of Leeds. I’m going into third year now and a cap and gown never looked so scary!

Keep posted and enjoy!
Kelly :)