Design with Nicola

Today we had a task to complete within the design group.
we got paired with someone who had to same kind of idea of what it meant to research TREND. I got paired with julie who had the same inspirations, such as digital print, CAD, illustrations and advertsising. She also specialises in print.
Even though her work is very different to mine and she has different questions to answer within her drawings, prints and concepts, we worked very well together and came up with some good ideas.
We researched trends for 2010 by looking at WGSN website through blackboard. We picked out current themes within this one top that stood out for us both.
some of the themes we came up with....
Graphic design Vs vintage: we linked this with how posters have changed due to the influence of technology. Vintage posters would have been hand painted years ago, and now this has moved on to advertsing on CD covers using CAD.
Graphic design and the mix of textiles, this certain top had both graphic design influences/techniques and textile influences/techniques.
this is a current issue within my work that I want to resolve. Is my work still textile crafts? I'm not using concentional materials when it comes to textile crafts, im not working on fabric, but plastic.

It was a very insightful exercise today, to see how people could come up with so many different ideas and concepts under the topic of TREND. and how trend effects other artists works. Some people focus on colour, some a word, or some a concept theme.

The session was finished by presentations from all the groups. Each group was different and also a individual presentation was given to how we would change the group ideas on trend, to fit into our own research. So it was also a good chance to fit in some extra research for our projects :)