EVALUATION OF CULTURAL PROJECT

Project Evaluation 

This project has been a huge challenge of motivation for me, this is because at the start of the project I felt a bit unsure about what I was doing and didn’t feel like I have a very good flow within my work. Although after attending my tutorial sessions I felt better as the project went on with more reassurance and guidance from my tutor Clare. 

My project started off with my summer project when I visited the Victorian Albert museum in London. This museum was full of inspiration from different cultured object from all over the world such as japan, china, turkey, India, south Asia and more. The museum is filled with pottery, furniture, armour wear, fashion, fabrics, it is overwhelmingly inspiring for a textile print student. 

I then furthered my research by looking into interior designers that used culture as inspiration for there work. I wanted to link this project to interior as I felt Victorian albert was a good fit to developed within interior and because I want to base my print work with more of an interior designers’ style as this is the job I want to have in the future. 

I then had an unexpected trip to japan with my in the middle of this project. This was a great opportunity to explore around japan take as many photos and link it within my project somehow. I ended up taking so many photos in japan that I then thought of just narrowing down my multiple cultural that I was previously thinking of doing to research just cultural research of japan itself. When I got back from japan, I started sketching from all the photographs I had taken, from the streets of Tokyo to Japanese gardens, temples, lanterns, fortunes, Japanese writing and so on. I then went onto scanning in all my sketches and creating a collection of Japanese style digital prints. 

Furthering my designs, I then wanted to make sure they had a connection to interior design still, so I decided to make a wallpaper sample book. I wanted to make the paper samples feel as wallpaper like as possible, so I tested out the wide format printers. I used the gloss, silk and mat finish and felt and got other people to feel the papers to tell me which one felt most like wallpaper, which was the mat finish. I then decided to make cushion samples, I did these as digital and sublimation prints. Again, I went to the a4 and more store and picked fabric that I felt most like a cushion base fabric, then once all the prints were digitally printed and heated pressed on I then mounted them into cushion like samples and ended up with a great collection of prints that I felt proud of. 

Overall, I ended up enjoying this project more than any other project I have done so far. This is because I got to create my own style into a body of work that I am most passionate about, Interior design. To improve and developed my work in the future I feel it would be good to take some of my prints to the print room and add more texture and bold screen prints to my work.