Studio Brief 1 : Competition Brief - Ohh Deer & Studio Brief 2 : Competition Brief - Talenthouse

SB1 : Ohh Deer

I have decided to take on a competition brief to see if I stand a chance of my work being submitted 

Uploads close Friday midnight 6th of November. I want to go with the November theme of Autumn and Fall. I've decided I'm going for an autumn leaf theme as I think this would look lovely on some cushions and would be bang on trend with upholstery at the minute, cosy!

When I initially had the idea in mind I was going more for the curved leaf on the bottom left : 

Using the colour picker on Photoshop I picked out the colour range of these leaves to use on my own design and created a colour palette to work with

Playing with brushes :

Extended deadline :

They got approved ! I shared the link on Facebook asking my friends to like it as well

I done some quick his and hers cushions too to experiment with text further 

I played around with some of the brushes on photoshop to create a background and then decided it looked kind of magical so I added the quote ' this could be magic '

I am not particularly pleased with these outcomes despite them being accepted I think they don't really represent my practise. I think this magic cushion in particular does not really work because the text fades into the background too much.

Another design

I think something that would be current in terms of design would be looking at vintage lightbulbs. I really like them and I think this would look good on a cushion. 

Here are some images I have used for inspiration :

Experimenting with different compositions :

Final outcomes :

I decided on the second image because I think it makes for a more unique and interesting cushion :

Overall I am quite pleased with this design because it looks quirky and playful. My strengths usually lie with character and people so getting my head around homeware and furniture is quite a challenge, but I think somehow this still represents me. Playing with colour, composition and taking something that is usually quite a dull lifeless subject and giving it some life I think represents what I am about too.

Context beyond Threadless

I have mocked up my designs being sold for Laura Ashley to show how the cushions can exist beyond Threadless.

SB2

Talenthouse - Ugly Christmas Jumper

I love this idea and it allows me to explore some character design. I think that this would become a substantial brief if I explore further where these designs could be used such as creating my own range of ugly christmas jumpers, put the designs onto christmas cards or submit them to threadless.

I also think this brief suits me better than the Borns album cover work, so it may replace it, I am not sure yet.

This is the kind of funny vibe I'm going for, I've took a spin on 'ugly' sweater and turned it into perhaps an ugly, naked/drunk santa?? :

Contextual Research:

Designs out there at the moment

My design

Mocked up on a jumper

Talenthouse - Borns Visual Artwork

Contextual research

As I've never listened to Borns before, I wasn't sure if this would be a good or bad idea but I think on the positive side I am open minded about it and I am taking from it the feeling I initially get just from songs on the album and not based on the band themselves.
I listened to some of their tracks on Youtube and some of their videos proved to be quite cosmic and vibrant.
I took some screenshots of scenes that I felt I could take certain aspects from to translate within my art work