Unit 2 Research - Initial stages

For Wednesday the 24th of Feburary you should have addressed the inital stages of research for your Controlled Assesment:

Unit 2 - Post Presentation class discussion

Katie - Title - Surfaces
Key Issues investigated -

• Surfaces
• Land
• Landscapes
• Emotion
• Mood
• Texture
• Graffiti
  
• Vandalised surfaces
  
• Man-Made surfaces
• Medical Surfaces
  

Class discussed action / Investigation

• The Boyle Family
• Jenny Saville
• Damien Hirst - Split Cow, Pharmacy (Currently at the Baltic till 7th March- Primary source)
  
• Knit 2 - Crafts Council
• Guerrilla Knitting
• Skin grafts, Stitches, bruises, anesthetic, Plastic Surgery
• Autopsy, Operation
• Mummification, Embalming
• Designers - Helmut Lang, Alexander Mcqueen

Daniel - Title - Surfaces
Key Issues investigated -

• Cristo - Wrapping buildings
• World surfaces
• Claire Coyles
• Kathleen & Mcflarlen
  
• WW2 - Make do and mend
• Growth and decay
• Weaving, crochet, knitting, stitching
  
• Yuayana Wantabe

Class discussed action / Investigation

• Issey Miyake
• Natural Dyeing
• Skin & bones
• Animal, vegetable, mineral
• Take for granted - wrapping - makes inquisitive
  
• Wrapping up electrical
• Visual response to wrapping / constraint
  
• Shadows
  
• Resources - coal, oil, gas, what would life be like without
• Dark colours - future bleak if we continue as we are in the surface of our life / world
  

Kat - Title - Organic
Key issues investigated -

• Georgia Okeefe
• Laura Ashley
  
• Worms eye view
• Baby
  
• fetus

Class discussed progression / investigation

• Fetal development - Organic at birth?
• Innocence
• How a child sees the world
• Black and White
• Small
• Life cycle of organic forms

Emma - Title - Organic
Key issues investigated -

• New life
• Green
• Farms
• Recycling
• World - we need to look after it
• Richard Long - Sculptor - works with nature
• Going Nowhere
• Claudia & Monica Araujo - Textiles
  

Class discussed progression / investigation

• Farm animals
• Going nowhere...
• Non machinery - Organic sewing, production
• Find alternative methods
• "Walked in a straight line in a grassy field following his own path, made his own unique route"
• Hand print / moulds
• Mud huts
• House - organic life
• Pestle and mortar
  

• Erin - Title - Surfaces
  Key issues investigated -
  

• The changing surface of our world with seasons
  
• Seasons
• Rebecca Potts - Climate change
• Carolyn Saxby - Distressing
• Global warming

• Class discussed progression / investigation

• Nature during seasonal changes
• Life affected by climate change / seasons
• Floods
• Skin
  
• Body changes
• Covering man-made surfaces with nature - vegetables, herbs etc
  

Rebecka - Title - Embellishment

Key Issues investigated -

• Theatre
• Art Deco
• Coco Channel
• Jazz
• Flappers

Class discussed progression / investigation

• Silent films
• Moulin Rouge
• Books - The Great Gatsby
• Russian Ballet / Gymnastics
• Madame Pompadour
• Can Can
• 1920 dances
• Charleston
• Look at Designers / Textile Artists

Emily - Title - Embellishment

• Italy
• Masquerade ball
• Venice
• Pompeii
• Mafia
• Religion
• Saints
• Artists - Botticelli - Michaelangelo - Donatello
• Designers - Cavalli, Missoni, Pucci

Class discussed action / Investigation

• Venice - Connection of Islands
• Tapestries
• Laing Art Gallery
• Mafia / Religion
• Burned Cities
• Masks - Religion / Hide
• Response to 'hiding / masking' yourself
• Masquerade / religion

Jess M - Title - Organic

• Chloe / Hussain Chalyan
• Georgia O'Keefe
• White
• Natural
• Natural printing

Class discussed action / Investigation

• Define organic and extend visually
• Source 'organic' primary research
• Processes
• Recycle
• Investigate Contemporary Textile designers

Chloe - Title - Embellishment

• Restoration
• Rome - Culture & Fashion
• Divinci
• Alexander Mcqueen

Class discussed action / Investigation

• Roman / Greek Mythology
• Myths
• Lanchester
• Religion
• Investigate Textile Artists

Unit 2 Assignment

You have been provided with your Unit 2 assignment topics. You must Select one of the questions from below to commence your investigations for this Unit.

Initial tasks

1. Produce a spiderdiagram of initial thoughts processes for the questions that you find worth pursuing
2. Selecting a maximum of two questions, produce a short visual presentation that investigates the following:

• Theme exploration
• Influences
• Key issues and trends
• Traditional or contemporary Artists and Designers that have explored the theme you are considering
• Fashion / Textiles Artists that have explored / been inspired by the theme you hare considering
• End Products that may have been influenced by the theme you are considering
• Any other areas that you feel are relevant to the theme you are considering

Quick think - Which Question may have inspired the following works?

Examples provided by the Examination board of Textiles Projects

Examples provided by the Examination board of Textiles Projects

Mark grades Attatched

These would all include additional sketchbook work, not shown.

Quirky little ideas:
http://wrenhandmade.typepad.com/

Some fabulous imagery and textiles can be found at:
http://alloverprint.blogspot.com/

trend sites

Some interesting Trend Forecasting blogs I have recently found:

http://www.infomat.com/

The most informative - It gives a break down of future trends with colour palettes and mood directions for Womenswear / Menswear / Childrenswear and homeware.

http://printsourcenewyork.blogspot.com/

http://cyanatrendland.com/

An interesting range of fabric samples found if you search this blog:

http://rowanspatch.blogspot.com/




http://spiritcloth.typepad.com/what_if/

Scheme for remaining weeks of Unit 1 coursework

By the end of this unit you will have evidence of:

• X 2 Final outcomes – Skirt & Corset
  

• X 2 sketchbooks – Main & Mini self directed (Independent study - Photography, sketches, textiles links, drawings of work inspired by your Unit 1 work )

• A blogspot that records your wok and shows Critical analysis
  

• A series of Large scale presentation boards in a medium of your choice - Be creative in presentation - You do not HAVE to spend a fortune on purchasing presentation boards - look at your project and decide on a medium to suit...They may include:
  

A Research board

A board that investigates Cubism
A board that investigates Architecture
A board that investigates Designers
Photo shoot
Fabric sampling
Sketches – design development
Final designs and development of final solutions
Final 3D outcomes Photographed

Ultimately, the decision is yours for the presentation of your Presentation board work, but they should present your work in its best light and not just be repetitions of what is in your sketchbook.

Using Blogspots for research

Remember to use the blogspots listed here in order to further support your textile sampling development / designer understanding etc. You may find a technique / process / designer etc that we have not investigated in class that is specifically relevant to your project or a piece of work that is specifically relevant to your project. If so, record that information and explain how it could be used in your sketchbook. For example the recent update on this blog reminds me of the type of work Erin has been exploring in some of her fabric sampling. Now if Erin has not accessed this blogspot recently, she may not have seen this and cant cite it as research material in her work....

Assessment of your work

Last week, we discussed in depth the expectations, mark allocation and breakdowns. Listed below is a reminder of how you are being assessed for this unit of work:

Textiles Design Specification - This is what you have to study over your two units of work. Unit 1 covers much of the specification. We then cover remaining point in Unit 2.

General Assessment objectives

Grid of Assessment of objectives with marking breakdown - This is how you will be marked for Unit 1.

Examples of work provided by the Examination board

This is an piece of work that would have had a range of other pieces of work with it as well as a minimum of one sketchbook.



I will upload the work showed to you last week from the Examination meeting on friday - The disk does not like my Mac!