First, the students were tasked with creating a moodboard. It is a very important tool in fashion and textile design. The board holds inspiration imagery and tells a color story. Below, you can see the one I created for my assignment. All of the flowers are from photos I took. The color scheme is colorful and light and playfull. Next, it was time to sketch and come up with textile patterns ...
I like to use different techniques to generate ideas and design. Below you can see six ideas I came up with. I created cardboard stamps, I drew with color markers, I created stencils for my silk screen. Finally, I used Illustrator and PhotoShop to manipulate the ideas into more complex patterns.