Student Work: AS Textiles Paper Dress

As part of the introduction to their exam theme 'Covert and Obscured' our AS Textiles students began to explore the possibility of using recycled materials and transforming their meaning by recreating something new. The students looked at origami techniques and were inspired by 'junk fashion' and Gary Harvey when creating their dress and played around with heat transfer techniques too. We think the finished experiment is beautiful! 

Inspiration: Paper cutting

How gorgeous is this video? It was created by the talented Nicole Licht, an in house designer for Etsy. If you're making paper art work this is a much watch - look at the incredible intricacy of the pieces cut out!

Inspiration: Mithi Shafiq

My friend Mithi Shafiq creates wonderful illustrations! Mithi has an interesting background, as well as being an illustrator she is also a Dr. with a PHD in Science; you can see the influence this has had on some bodies of work particuarly her 'Uncle Albert Series' and 'Molecular Font'. I particular love the way in which she combines handmade and digital processes - like in the piece above that was created as part of a cover design competition for Anorak - The Happy Mag for Kids. The images above are featured on her website and they give you great insight into how she creates her pieces, you can also see more of see what goes on behind the scenes with her work over on her blog.