I thought I’d share my mood boards for Creative Textiles and 3D Design with you tonight.  They are by no means the finished article, but it’s a start.  These are my first attempts at mood boards, and they kind of reflect my logical brain in the sense that they are all cut out to fit into nice rectangles.  How do you get away from that?  Practice I’m guessing.

My mood board for Creative Textiles is based on the theme of ‘Rendezvous’. I managed to lay down the background of the board with some images from magazines. Mostly they are images of clothes, walls and furniture.   However, tomorrow I will print off fabric swatches and add them.  I also knitted and crocheted a couple of items to add on.  I am trying to build up the idea of layers, secrecy, obfuscation, concealment, and weaving.  The fabrics on the board tend to show layers of cloth or woven cloth.

My mood board for 3D Design is based on the theme of sumptuous structures.  When I think of sumptuous structures, I think of buildings like Frank Gehry’s Experience Music Project in Seattle or Santiago Calatrava’s Ciudad de Artes y Sciencias Auditorio Valencia or Auditorio de Tenerife. These are simply stunning buildings, and works of art in their own right.  I had many ideas of how to based my theme around the words container or store.  I had thought of designing my own building, along the lines of a 3D jigsaw puzzle with all the blocks fitting together, but since I only have 9 weeks in which to do this project, I thought it a bit ambitious.  Given my time constraints, I thought I’d go with something simpler – a hat.  Very boring I know.  My other idea was to create a Fabergé type egg which opened in segments, like a cored apple, to reveal a dancer inside.  The problem was that I couldn’t find enough source material to base it on.  I thought this was a much more original idea than creating a hat, but I have to go with what’s available, so a hat it is.

I’ve already done some designs in class today, and I’ll post the pictures tomorrow, but it’s looking a bit fancy for my tastes. We have to write about who the product is aimed at, and at the moment it’s looking like it’s either for royalty or for the ladies at Ascot! I suppose I’ll just to make do, as I have to quickly move onto designing 4 prototypes, which are due in a few weeks time. The work never stops!