External Project

Humpties

www.humpties.com

As part of this project I have to complete and external brief, for this I have chosen 'Humpties'. This company creates fabric pouffes, for indoor and outdoor purposes. The design of their pouffes are circular with a boarder running around the edge, so I have tailored my work to fit the design criteria. My previous design work has adapted well into this shape, the straight lines work well with the curves to create dynamic ideas. The difficulty I am having with these designs however are creating them to the desired scale on the brief, as when enlarged they loose quality and become blurry.  

Line Drawing

The images below all originally came from the same image, deconstructed and rearranged. The shapes they created were the starting point, from which I have added line drawing to connect sections. The additional drawing has unified the image and added more depth. The final image was created by combining the two previous images on a larger scale. Again, additional line drawing was added to connect sections together. It is not as successful as I was hoping, the areas of just line drawing are a lot weaker then the built up areas from the previous imagery. 

Image In Repeat Continued

The prints I have been creating have been developing in two ways, one off prints and prints in repeat. The one off prints are designed towards a panel for a room, where as the repeats are designed for more conventional use. The below prints could be used for wallpaper, wrapping paper or a fabric for interiors, as they have are continuous. The work in repeat isn't as strong as the individual pieces, they don't fit right together. 

Large Scale Panels

 I have been researching where I see my work ending up, which has steered me away from wallpaper and more towards wall panels. These would be a feature pieces as the focal point in a room, possibly paper or printed onto fabric/glass/perspex. The reassembled images work best on a larger scale, these images are A1. The below visualisation is the style and scale of how I see my work progressing. 

Image In Repeat

As I am primarily print based, I enjoy putting my work in repeat or using multiples of the same image to create a new one. I have used simple rotation and repeat for the first image, which works relatively well. However, it would be enhanced if the original images we drawn with a ruler and not free hand, as they don't match seamlessly. 

The images below are the most successful, this is due to the change of scale of the original image. The first image would be richer if the layers were carried on further. If the layers multiplied down the page and the chimneys extended up, the process would work more effectively. The second image works well as a simple repeat pattern along the horizontal.