Design Museum - Drawing Fashion

Drawing Fashion exhibition has on display the exceptional and extraordinary fashion illustrations of the 20th and 21st centuries, drawings and combinations from  international designers known around the worldwide, brands such as McQueen, Dior, Chanel, Vikroe & Rolf and Comme des Garons, the exhibition has got the exclusive drawings and skecthes you wouldn't been seen anyway else I could guarantee you that for definite.

As been a girl, and love shopping and been in to fashion this exhibition has made me love fashion even more.. :) The illustrations and drawings I have seen, I will have to say was amazing and incredible.

The exhibition demonstrates the style, passion, enthusiasm, and character the designers has put in to their illustration to fashion, combining the illustrations with art, but also raising the attraction of  elegance and appeal of glamour within their unique designs. With each design illustrating an different path way of sense of style, and reflecting it to the time of drawing, with drawings representing the time through Pop Art, Art Deco and Art Nouveau, allowing the viewer to understand the culture and spirit of the drawing at the time of the drawing.

Viewing the different style of drawings from different times, has shown me the changes that has occurred and how fashion now is displayed more abstract. Have to say it again great exhibition and inspiring in the ways of use of colour, paint, graphics and illustration. 

Images are uploaded from google images, as Photography was not permitted within the exhibition.

Design Museum - The Brit Insurance Designs Awards 2011

Great Designs, Inspiring, Creative, Simple but Genius, Wooow, Hmmmm - Great few hours spent in the Design Museum today viewing all the designs for the Brit Insurance Designs Awards, wondering which one will be the Design of the Year. From designs that made me say, that's such a ''clever idea'', to designs that made me say ''hmmm nice''

There was variety of designs from graphics, to transport, furniture to fashion on display from small scales to bigger displays. The designs were creative, some were simple, all designed for the future with beneficial aspects, and imaginative. 

Ladakh Commonealth Peace Pavilion and Classroom Initiative 

 UK Pavilion Shanghan Expo 2010

One piece that caught my eye and I did question if it was possible, but did see it was possible and has been built in a 1:1 scale in real life, I was pretty amazed of the material choose and the strength of the material. Would have loved to experience this in person especially the inside of the structure

Tape Installations - Architecture: Austria - Crostia

The continuous wrapping of the tape links to result in complex amorphous shapes reminiscent of growing organic forms developed. Up to 45km of tape went in to creating some parts of this structure, which can be experienced from inside a well as from out side. 

Fiat 500 MultiAir Engine

Sayl Task Chair

There was many designs to be viewed and to be inspired by. And also educational wise great way to learn new techniques, model structures - material uses, scale and colour use. Wish only there was more to view.. :)

AND THE WINNER OF... 

Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011

is...

PLUMEN LIGHTBLUB by Samuel Wilkinson 

It's amazing after viewing so many of the designs, and having few on mind that I believed will be the winner, I was pretty amazed the Plumen Light Bulb was the winner. To be really honest I didn't even think it would. This design was the last one I viewed within the exhibition on the day of my visit,. The light bulb does the same job of an normal light saving bulb, with using 80% lesser of it's energy and also durable for eight times more than an luminous light bulb.

'' Stephen Bayley, 2011 Jury Chair said of the winning entry ‘The Plumen light bulb is a good example of the ordinary thing done extraordinarily well, bringing a small measure of delight to an everyday product.’'

http://www.designsoftheyear.com/2011/03/15/plumen-lightbulb-wins-brit-insurance-design-of-the-year-2011/

I guess this shows that a design does not have to be over the top, or exaggerated an simple idea that has a twist and style with benefits can be a masterpiece. Relating this back to my own studies design simple, bold but clever designs that relates to the concept can be a success. But I guess that's always the case you will always start of with the simplest drawings and then later develop those simple design ideas adding more to it, but will always go back to the first drawing you have done and will go forward with that design idea with slight developments added to it. So always trust your first instinct, the first design idea that comes to your mind the minute you finish reading the brief/or design concept and be confident.

Part 1 - Christian Spencer Davies - AModels

''What is Landscape''

AModels is not like any other model making firms, the reason why AModel stands out from the rest is because they have they own way of producing abstract,transcendent, creative inspired models. The inspiration of the models can be of absolute anything that can inspire the model maker to produce an unique, exclusive model to represent the concept of the brief at it's high standard. 

AModels are against models which are fully white, bland models, or un-realistic models, they are dedicated, devotedly model makers who believe in producing models that will engage with it's viewers. Their work does not have boundaries or limitations with scale, materials or imagination, it's all about creating something that is unique and bringing the architectural design, landscape design etc to live. 

One of the things that has stood out for me while listening to Christian was the respectful, trustworthy relationship he has with his clients. His clients wouldn't have much say in how they want the model, Christian prefers to approach the brief in his own artistic way and suitable way, and the best way the model will engage with the views.

Christian has gave me the interest in model making again, he has bought back my interest I had in secondary school. I took on Resident Materials as my technology topic and always loved experimenting with different types of wood, metals, and plastic, I enjoyed every brief we got. I always gave a lot of attention to detail, and finishes, but moving on to college I dis-continued with the topic and moved on from model making. I did wish I continued in pursuing in developing my model making skills, and developed them from first year of my study in Landscape Architecture. 

One of the advantages in model making for myself is that I am not verbally good in explaining myself due to nervous every time, so my model use to always speak for it self. This should have been one of the first skills I developed from the start of Landscape Architecture. But it's never to late thanks to Christian who has inspired me :)

 

Digital Media - Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture

Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture - Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design -  Authors Bradley Cantrell & Wes Michaels

I would recommend this book to anyone who's studying landscape architecture. The step by step detailed guides helping you to develop and explore your skills in specific areas like creating digitally rendered plans, perspectives, visualisations, plans and sections, is just amazing how faster you can enhance your skills rather then spending hours in front of the computer trying to figure out how to use the program, not only you get to enhance your skills, techniques digitally it also helps with developing your understanding in different design programs. The outcome work at the end will look as good and professional. Practice makes prefect, once you get the hang of applying the techniques within your work, each and every time you design you will bring in your own style of working around that specific technique. 

At first I had difficulties getting the hang of applying the techniques and understanding how the software worked. A tip I will suggest will be first read through the specific technique you want to apply within your work, first read through the steps and familiarise yourself with the tools and the software, second time read through it normally and one the third attempt apply the technique step by step. Yes it might take time but it's a way of taking in the information slowly which will stay with you for the next time you apply the technique.

Above is the front cover of Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture 

The Book has many professional works by landscape architects with guides in how to produce the same quality of work, the above photos by Mossop+Michaels Landscapes Architects, whom design-focused service dedicated to the implementation of sustainable landscapes. The firm is focused on the public landscape of cities, parks and open space systems and infrastructure. The collage/visualisation (top photo) is created  by using Photoshop, and  the section (bottom photo) is created by using Photoshop and Illustrator.