Who's That Muse?

                                                                                                           

School of Creative Industries

ND Fashion & Textiles Year 1

Project Title: Who’s that Muse?
Project Leader: Beth Hudspith, Holly Brindley, Laura Armstrong	Verified by:
Start Date: 17/01/11	Deadline: 02/02/11

Student Name:

Unit No & Title(s)	Unit: W/P
Unit 127: Fashion Visualisation	W

Background: Fashion illustration has become the ‘artistic language’ used by designers to convey their individual style.  Fashion designers and illustrators need to communicate their ideas in clear, exciting and innovative ways to meet client requirements.  Fashion Illustration is considered the medium between vision and fashion.  Fashion Illustration works well because it demonstrates to us underlying themes and ideas.  This quote from Laird Borrelli, a well respected Fashion Guru illustrates this point: ‘A pose, the set of a pouty lip, can speak volumes’.
The Brief: Throughout history artists, designers and musicians have produced some of their greatest work inspired by the influence of their Muse; A ‘Muse’ is a person to whom you can identify with on a create level and whose personal qualities and talents inspire and help to shape your own designs. Your brief is to research your chosen ‘Muse’ and design a collection for them inspired by their personal style and the era they were most famous. For example, Audrey Hepburn is most known for her films from the 50’s/60’s or if you chose a current ‘Muse’ like Alexa Chung, you could look at current trends from the catwalk shows.  You will then investigate the work of contemporary and historical fashion illustrators and choose one illustrator whose style of work will inspire your final illustrations.  You will participate in drawing and illustrating workshops to help develop your drawing skills and style.
Activities & Tasks:
. Research:	Unit Criteria:	Key Skills:
This project will start by you choosing a ‘Muse’ to design your collection for, and researching into this person’s lifestyle and the era they were/are most famous. Select your ‘Muse’ and produce an A3 board based on them.  You will also support this with a 200 word processed profile of your ‘Muse’ which will be presented to the group along with your board. During this project you will also research Fashion Illustrators/Artists that link well to your ‘Muse’ and you will use their ‘style’ to illustrate your final designs. This research will be presented on 3xA3 boards supported by a short explanation of your choice of illustrator. The boards titles will be: Historical illustrator/artist. Contemporary illustrator/artist. Your chosen illustrator/artist.	Unit 127 1.P1.2.3.5 1.M1.2.3 1.D1.2.3
Development:	Unit Criteria:	Key Skills:
Referring to your research, produce 2xA2 design development sheets, designing a collection for your ‘Muse’. Include full figure illustration sketches and close up drawings of detail. Make these boards look visually exciting adding ‘pops’ of colour and filling the whole page! The inspiration for your designs should come from the era from which your ‘Muse’ was most known and also from their lifestyle or personality.  This information will come from your muse board. As part of this brief you will participate in a series of drawing workshops including life drawing.	Unit 127 1.P1.2.3.4.5 1.M.1.2.3 1.D.1.2.3
Final Outcome:	Unit Criteria:	Key Skills:
Produce 1x A3 or A2 Final Illustration boards. Your designs will be illustrated in the style of your chosen Fashion Illustrator.	Unit 127 1.P1.2.3.4.5 1.M.1.2.3 1.D.1.2.3
Presentation:	Unit Criteria:	Key Skills:
1xA3 board based on your chosen Muse 200 word processed profile of your Muse which will be presented to the group along with your board. 3xA3 board based on:  Historical illustrator/artist. Contemporary illustrator/artist. Your chosen illustrator/artist. 2xA2 design development sheets. All work produced in studio workshops i.e. drawing techniques, experimental illustration work. A3, A2 or presented in a file. 1xA3 or A2 Final Illustration boards; 1 illustration on each.	Unit 127 1.P1.2.3.4.5 1.M.1.2.3 1.D.1.2.3

Unit Assessment Outcomes: Unit 127 – Fashion Visualisation To achieve this unit you must: 1 Be able to research fashion visualisation styles and techniques 2 Be able to use media, materials, techniques and processes 3 Be able to produce fashion ideas 4 Be able to communicate fashion ideas using a personal style to a given brief. Grading Criteria: To achieve a pass grade the evidence must show that the leaner is able to: P1. Research contemporary fashion visualisation styles and techniques. P2. Research historical fashion visualisation styles and techniques. P3. Select and use media, materials, techniques and processes. P4. Produce fashion ideas. P5. Use own style to communicate fashion ideas to a given brief. To achieve a merit grade the evidence must be show that the leaner is able to: M1. Research diverse contemporary and historical fashion visualisation styles and techniques. M2. Select and use media, materials, techniques and processes to produce diverse fashion ideas. M3. Present coherent and creative fashion ideas which meet a given brief. To achieve a Distinction grade the evidence must be show that the leaner is able to: D1. Research and present independently, a sophisticated and engaging body of fashion visualisation styles and techniques. D2. Use media, materials, techniques skilfully and creatively and processes to produce creative fashion ideas. D3 Communicate a meaningful collection of fashion ideas which demonstrate an individual style to meet a given brief. Please note: All unit grading criteria is available to view on your course Blackboard site. This can be achieved by satisfying the pass and merit criteria and producing a body of work that exceeds the basic pass & merit criteria.  Your research should be thorough, informative and visually appealing.  Your development should show the progression of your research and ideas through to the professional finished pieces that display a strong understanding of the subject.

Learning Materials and Information Resources: Studio resources. Books & Periodicals: Fashion illustration Next, 100 years of Fashion Illustration, Vogue, Collezioni trends, Gap press, Textile view. IT Resources: www.vogue.com www.style.com Additional Information to note: Projects are always more successful if you collect information from a wide and varied source. The School library is a fantastic resource and a set of books is available for you to use specifically for this project - there’s also interesting imagery elsewhere, you just need to look! Use the internet for web searches and especially, ‘Google Image’. Don’t overwhelm your research with repetitive information, choose carefully and always annotate your findings explaining why you made your selection.

SCHEME OF WORK

Unit 127: Fashion Visualisation: Who’s that muse?

Project Week	Course Week No	Week Start Date	Topic/Syllabus
One	17	17th Jan Mon	Briefing 9am: Start collecting research for chosen Muse.
		Tues	Am: create an A3 board/sketchbook based on your chosen Muse. Include 200 words explaining your choice. Pm: continue with board. Group critique at 2.30pm.
		Wed	Start design development. Homework: complete 1 x A2 layout sheet of design ideas.
Two	18	24th Jan Mon	Continue with design development; 2 x A3 layout sheets to be completed by 3pm. Homework: start to collect research on fashion illustrators/artists – contemporary and historical.
		Tues	Am: workshop – ‘Elongate a pose’ Pm: continue collating research on historical and contemporary fashion illustrators/artists and create 1 x A3 board/sketchbook based on each.
		Wed	Am: workshop – ‘Cameo’ Continue with boards/sketchbook. Homework: Choose one illustrator/artist that you feel represents the persona/Image of your Muse and create a board/sketchbook based on them.
Three	19	31st Jan Mon	Am: group critiques.  Workshop – ‘Drawing’ experiment with the techniques and media that your chosen illustrator uses. Pm: continue to experiment in the style of your chosen illustrator and start to plan how you will illustrate your chosen final design.
		Tues	Am: workshop – ‘Collage’.  Start final illustration board. Minimum of 1 A3 board; 1 large illustration/1 outfit.
		Wed	Complete final illustration: Hand in 3:00pm

Above is the brief for project number five.
Below is all of my work, in the order that it is in my sketch book.
The first set of images are my research on my muse.



The following images are my design development and examples of illustration techniques.



The next images are research of historical and contemporary illustrators and fashion illustrators.



The next illustrations are part inspired by my research, and part my own imagination.  



Finally my final illustration, inspired greatly by Tim Burton, a wacky illustration of my muse, Peter Doherty.



I achieved a Merit/Distinction grade for this project, I just need to add more varietys of my own illustration examples.