Designing and making for a luxury home ware collection

I initially researched and developed a colour palette inspired by the tropic and geometric trend this summer. I used my colour mixing skills to make the colours using pigment.

Drawing inspired my botanical florals and contemporary geometrics.

   

I created some prototype wall paper designs to develop my knowledge of the stages in which a product is made.

Finally i had my final wall paper designs digitally printed before applying both hand and machine stitch to them.

I hand printed and embroidered this design for a cushion to complement the digitally printed wall paper in a living room setting.

Floral Geometrics

Initial drawing for the design and business module part 1.

Application

   

I am really happy with the final outcomes for this project, I think the aim of producing a collection of luxury embroidered samples has been accomplished with attention to detail.

Using photoshop I created these visualisations to demonstrate the application of my designs.

Original image on left sourced from:
ELLE - January 2015

Original image on right sourced from:

ELLE - February 2015

Paris Research Trip

 Visiting Galerie Lafeyette and the Pompidou in Paris was an insightful experience giving me beautiful images to inspire my future projects.

Production

From my design work i developed my ideas to create samples using both digital and hand embroidery processes.

I used Wilcom, a software that you can draw designs onto to digitally stitch out my luxury designs. 

I learned it is cheaper to stitch out designs this way than to fully hand embroider every sample.

I also hand stitched onto digitally stitched samples and applied bead work.

Design

With the new design brief design production application I decided to create a luxury embroidery floral collection.

This included initial floral drawings with inspiration from William Morris.

Tropic Trend

With inspiration from the tropic trend proposed by Global Colour, I created these patterns using Photoshop.

'Remote'

I used hand embroidery techniques including straight satin stitch, fly, stem and cross stitch to create delicate designs that communicate autumn decay and the intricate detail that can be found within skeletal natural forms.

Autumn Decay

Throughout this project I worked on incorporating natural forms within my embroidery samples.

I manipulated the forms using paints and dyes to fit the 'Remote' trend.

Colour Palette

I mixed procion dyes to make each colour from the 'Remote' palette to dye my fabric and embroider on.

Natural Forms Inspiration

A photo-shoot photographing natural forms in their environment to inspire my design work for the Autumn/Winter trend 'Remote'