Make the most of Today...

M x

Trend Presentation Spring/Summer 2012

Glasgow's The Lighthouse was the location of Anne Ritchie's  presentation on Fashion and Textile Trends for the Spring/Summer 2012 season, Anne has worked in the textile and fashion industry since 1982 and has an extensive knowledge of both the global and the Scottish textile, fashion and accessory industry – from design and product development to market research and promotional activity.

The Trend Presentation highlighted the upcoming Textile Trends for the Spring/Summer 2012 season. The presentation included fashion, knitwear, accessories and interior trends 18mths in advance to assist design and product planning and helped me greatly.

The presentation was really useful for my work in that my colours, print, knit and weave can be aimed towards a much more commercial output and we received a useful book giving an insight into all the most exciting details.

The presentation was also a great opportunity to network with other textile businesses and creative designers in Scotland and was a worthwhile visit.

Matt x

Lack of blogging...... Apologies winter has arrived.

Up here in Aberdeen we have had a pretty hectic winter, with the madness of the snow and temperatures reaching as low as -22 its been pretty crazy.

 Apologies for not blogging very often this past month however I have lots to update you about.

• At the end of November CARi and myself had a stand at the Country Living Christmas Fair, which was a massive success, our Collars being especially popular with the cold winter approaching.
• I completed  my print project at Art School, which you can see one of the pictures from my previous post of me printing away happily. This project consisted of me making 10 professionally designed and finished printed materials which I managed to do successfully and recieved an A for my results.  I shall post some photographs for you to have a look.
• I then moved onto my Knit project, This consisted of me learning how to use the knitting machines and create a simialr ten samples to go along with that of the print. I shall also post some photographs for this...however due to the Art School eventually getting closed due to the intense snow and our knit technician getting stuck down in Edinburgh the project was cut short and we have to catch up after Christmas with our knitting.
• I have also been working with CARi at various Christmas Fairs across Scotland where we have received great Feedback for our Collar Scarves....so been pretty busy to say the least.

So once again I apologise for not being on here that often recently but I promise to get back to normal before the New Year (tomorrow) and update you in further detail of my latest goings on.

M xxx

Movement.

I have been interested in movement recently and have been putting some thought into ways movement can be expressed...one way I particularly like is long exposure.

Sometimes I felt as though long exposure never really showed the full extent of the motion so I decided to emphasise this by using flour to leave a track.

This is a few of the flour motion photos I took. :)

This one below is one of me blowing the flour..I really liked the contrast of colours and distortion of this image by my face not being visible.

Notre Dame Cathedral Paris

 Notre Dame Cathedral Paris has to be one of the most breathtaking places I've ever been.

I have always found Churches as places of wonder but I was in shock when I saw the size and scale of the stained glass windows it was beyond belief.

Art School Summer Project

Well we have just received our summer project for textiles, the summer break is nearly over however better late than never.

Although extremely busy with work at the moment with the release for the New Collection of Collars and Snoods  I have decided to spend a couple of hours (or at least one) a night to get the project going.
The project is to

• Buy Elle & Elle Home magazine
• Create 20 drawings inspired by the magazines
• Write 2 essays on each of the magazines
• Start a fabric bible to refer to costs and where to buy

Luckily the with the work we are doing for the winter collection of Collars and our visit to Paris in September the fabric samples shouldn't be too difficult to gather.

These are some of the drawings I have completed so far for this project.....Don't worry I wont bore you with the essays.....yet