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Vinnies fashion show - Styled by Perpetually Five

Logo Design

As mentioned earlier I have been collaborating with Dinah Pollard of ZOO Advertising. Previously Dinah has helped me with my prints but I have also asked her to help me with my logo. My original logo which I created my self is on the left here.

Dinah worked on different fonts and different ways of writing my labels name. However I thought her designs were unsuccessful. So I organised to meet with Dinah to work on a logo together.

 Dinah said that a logo needs to look good in black and white. It also needs to look good both big and small. We found a font that we both liked then decided to add one of the pictures of my prints. We chose a simple rabbit and played around with the positive and negative space. Also tried different ways of placing the logo. 

In the end we were both happy with the circle logo.

Converse Shoes

For the end of year parade I plan to have my models wearing customised Converse shoes. These shoes will be designed to match the colours of the each garment. According to the website it takes 2 to 3 weeks for your unique and individual creation to arrive.

You can also personalise the shoe with an ID. Since Perpetually Five will not fit it could be an idea to number each shoe design and since I will be having 5 models that could be a nice way to link Perpetually Five.

Sophisticated Prints

My graphic designer also produced some prints with a more sophisticated colour-way.

These colours were based on the current trends that she found through designers such as Marc Jacobs and Paul Smith

Collaboration with graphic designer - Dinah Pollard

I met with Dinah Pollard a graphic designer at ZOO Advertising to help collaborate with me for my fabric designs.

I informed Dinah of what I am trying to achieve with the prints whilst also showing her some of my designs.

Dinah was happy with my original print designs but thought that some of the colour combinations needed some work.

Dinah thought that it would be best to create vibrant colourful prints to reflect the imagination of the child and also to achieve promotional designs.

Together we sat down and worked out my colour-way and tried to refine my prints. Below are the prints that we came up with:

Visit to Campbell Primary

On Tuesday the 3rd of April I went to Campbell Primary to meet with two classes to help with my inspiration. The classes were made up of year one and twos both boys and girls. I came prepared with activities such as: Mr Squiggle drawing activity. Draw their favorite place, animal, clothing, costume, person and character. Plus another final drawing activity where they were asked to draw and tell a story.
Whilst they were doing this I was going around asking the children what they were drawing and why. I found the experience very valuable for my concept as I was able to observe the children using their imagination to draw what ever came to mind. What I got out from this experience was the shapes, colour and the use of space when they draw. From here I want to use their use of elements and principles and attributes to create my fashion designs. Picasso's technique can also be included in these steps.

BELOW ARE THE DRAWINGS