Its time to gather my designs/drawings/sampling and think about designing the final pieces. I have many mini designs on wood and I have started manipulating imagery/collage/drawing/material experimentation on photoshop and overlaying these on a scan of the wood I was using, to quickly visualise the design on the wood. I am not planning on using the wood as a final material. I was going to use the wood as part of the design as the texture and colour pay off works really well, I plan to apply this to floor and wall vinyl for the final samples. I will show this by presenting the design on paper then suggesting the vinyl that it would be used on, in a hostel context. I need to think about how I present my designs- do I have the floor and wall design as one whole design with spaces of plain wood/design in between to break up the design and pattern so it sits better in situ? I have done some visual research to help me decide with this (below). I think hints of the design and pattern would work really well as a statement floor and wall design piece- almost like an installation but on the wall and floor so it has more purpose.
I have printed out lots small wood designs to then build up a whole floor and wall design physically rather than using photoshop, just so I can get a feel of how this would look. I have been photographing them but I could stick them down or even put the design against different flooring and walls to see how they would look in context. I much prefer being hands on and my work having a handmade look which I guess links to my research report. I try my best to use little digital process because I like the unique bespoke concept of handmade work. However, digital process doesn't mean that they won't be bespoke and have handmade process too. My final designs will be digital but will be made up of many handmade processes to get to the final design.
I have also used the physical printed wood pieces to create larger parquet designs to see how they fit together- I quite like how some of the designs/colour carries on to the wooden piece next to it as it looks like they fit together well- I could intentionally do this on photoshop so the design flows but still has a patchwork vibe to it?
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| playing with overlaying and stacking wooden design- using the idea of collage |
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| sublimated wood designs placed into to a "sort of" parquet design |
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| using the printed wood to replicate a interior space- looking at floor and wall- continuous |
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| sublimated wood designs placed into to a "sort of" parquet design |
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| sublimated wood designs with melted tape placed into to a "sort of" parquet design |
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| close up of small cut out of scans/photoshopped designs placed into to a "sort of" parquet design |
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| close up of small cut out of scans/photoshopped designs placed into to a "sort of" parquet design |
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| close up of small cut out of scans/photoshopped designs placed into to a "sort of" parquet design |