24/02/2020

What have you learnt?

During the course I have learn some technical skills. Which is kind of useful for some of my project. In a sense of doing a work I had learned how to learn from my mistake. Know what you doing, accept what you did wrong and know how to forgive our ownself. Not to stick with the problem too long.

What have you improve upon?

Before the course I am a person who don’t like to write about myself. Lots of the task in the course always about self reflection. It’s kind of cringe to do. It's the only thing in the course I find it hard to do it every single day. The consistency makes me feel more organised about life. As a go with the flow person I have learned how to be more organized. How to do the plan the things neatly.

What have you excellent at?

I’ve been strongly passionate about designing thing digitally. It’s easy to fix and finish it faster than design physically. I learn lots making skills. I learned how to do things outside of the computer in the course. Before that I had never use sewing machine, knit machine in my whole life. I only know how to do hand stitches which I am not so good at. Practice not always make perfect. At least it's make something. So I think had been improve my hand skills. I feel I work faster than before.

What do you hope to achieve at the end of the project?

I really hope this roller coaster course makes my life better. If you could stay on this course you can do anything. Remember the hard time in foundation. Even if it getting worse I hope I’m doing fine on what throwing at me in the future.

I'm quite happy with the effect it gives me. Unfortunately, the one I squeeze the lime into it doesn't show much colour may be the ratio between the blue peas and the water is too much. I do like to try the colour with another type of eco-friendly material.

The workshop was so helpful not for only just my project. It's good for me to know these kinds of stuff before the Ba. I would love to carry on with the ruffles. other wise the fabric i brought with doesnt give the same effect with tutor samples.

I actually come up with using a Berry family to be one of my natural dyes. At the moment I look around the shelves the fruit price compare with the vegetables. It's a huge gap different. A packet of Cherry is 4.20 pound but the beetroot is only 79p per one box. There's a better to save the cost and I think using the Cherry probably had more work to do. Like take out the seed and it will be better to eat it instead. Work with the stuff I don't like having it would be less guilt.

This time look better than I expect it to be. The beetroot literally giving a good colour but it smells so weird, like the smell when you sitting in the forest and you play the ground. It's a well present name "Beetroot" and it smells like a roots.

I decided to create a shape of a bubble on a fabric. I have an idea of cut it like a hole. Then I feel it gonna look better If I make it 3d like it stood out for people to look at these pieces. I work on Beetroot dye. After I finish the first dye I am kind of disappointed with the uneven tone of it. but I chose to carry on working with it but when It turns into a sample I drape it in front of my Deconstruct object. I like the way how it flows on the mannequin. The uneven shade kind of elevate it to look ombre. I also like the back of the sample which I am kind of going to work on with the texture of the samples 

According from my project, I want to try to work with the food As I have an idea from Denim project, but I don't a chance to because of the time sufficient. I use the found expired food in my flat. I use the expired toast to be a material for today. I think about my childhood when my mum pack a toast for me in the morning with a plastic bag. so I plan to make a bag for a toast to make it look like a puff jacket.

I use the sewing machine to stitch, but it seems to be the machine is too harsh with the plastic. That's why the plastic keep tearing up. I change the process into staple it down. It does work, but It looks too simple for me.

I do like the one I stitch across the toast; I do think it would look better with a different colour thread and different tone colour of the toast.

The results was not I expected it to be. It's might be because the Cabbage has a very thin layer and the surface is not smooth. That's the reason It not showing up that much effect. 

I think we might need to change some sort of materials. The one I am thinking of is Chinese leave, the root part has a thicker layer than a red cabbage.

Also, I think the print on their own might be boring if it sits on their own. What I can think of right now is evaluated it on photoshop.

According to I observe myself I always got pinched by new shoes. It always leaving a shoe bite for a long time. The swatch of the samples is a texture of my feet mockup.

A multi placement purpose textiles. I think this set out textiles work where I want it to be. It's playful when standing in the light. It giving a vibe of going to the gig, The light, a movement on the human body through this piece. The lighting would work well with this transparent texture. 

The ideas of this project start with my comfort zone. what is comfort me? I come up with the Ideas of Places, what you see and what you can hear. 

Places(home); everybody needs places to return which is home. I research my home country, which is Laos, demonstrate how people live, how we dress, how simple we live our lives.

What you hear(music);  My fave artist has to give their fans the best through their song. Some of their music save someone life. 

What you see(cover); I think about what if I have a chance to design for my fave artist on their album cover, use the lyrics of the song to create the cover. My project would be about me designing the album cover for my favourites artist based on where my home is.

I start to draw the texture of my mood broad to get a line and structure which I had plan to develop it further on Photoshop.

After I finish the swatch I set up my work on the wall in my room. I thought I would leave textiles alone. In the end, I find a glue to put it together by using a projector to project the new digital texture to a hand made textiles.