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O U T S I D E I N
Ever since moving into my tiny little flat in the middle of Norwich I have become obsessed with bringing the outside in. Living amongst an urban jungle can mean surrounding yourself with the beige and the mundane; and that’s coming from a perspective of a city surrounded by farms and ploughing.
After reading a piece by Magnus Host a Nordic journalist it’s made me realise how important it is to bring life to areas bogged down with cement and bricks. To bring a pace slower then rushing to your 9-5 job.With trends swaying to teraniums and cacti it’s pretty hard to resist bringing these quaint and hard to kill plants into your own living room.This is a trend that will pick up pace the bigger cities get and the more forests and fields we loose. I personally will embrace it.
It’s hard to say no to something so beautiful in a world of grey.
Magnus Høst
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Magnus Høst is the brain behind Present Future, a Copenhagen-based creative consultancy. As an interdisciplinary consultant Høst offers customized solutions within trend forecasting, brand and concept development, fashion design, layout and graphic design.
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Since finishing Uni
And I’m back. I’ve missed blogging. It’s a platform where I can talk about the loves of my life but also reflect on what is happening in the world around me.
No one tells you how hard after uni is. You go from living breathing and your time being constantly conusmed by something that you love. From doing the practical stuff, to doing your own investigations to trend research. You have all the time in the world without any limitations.
Then you graduate and realise your time is now limited to a couple of hours of free time a day between housework, bills and a full time job. By the time you sit down you just want to eat and sleep. The passion I once had and the fire in me had dwindled.
Now that 3 months has passed, I’m saying no. My life has had creativity in some form for as long as I know and I now realised it’s what makes me me. Without a platform to draw or research or keep with trends doesn’t feel right. I need to get back into it.
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N E W D E S I G N E R S
To be chosen for New Designers was such a privilidge. We went to London for a week and showcased our work amongst other universities and upcoming businesses. The oppurtunity to take my portfolio, create marketing material and see how other uni’s displayed their work was refreshing. Our stand was stripped back with two or three key pieces on show and the rest of our work saved for when our portfolio’s came out. The bonus of this was that we could keep any new ideas, for me the use of monofilament, fur and laser cut, kept for those who genuinely had questions and wanted to know more about my work. The simplistic layout also meant there was a stark contrast to the other uni’s around us who had a large variety of work on show.
I learnt from that week. I hadn’t realised how different my work was for a weaver until I saw all the other checks and tartans. The fact that there was a lyer of monoilfament in my work meant that I could use a wide variety of finishes to my work and contexts were left to the customers imagination. From space age fashion or large pieces of interior designs.
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B I S H O P S A R T P R I Z E
To be selcted to showcase my work for the Bishops Artprize was such an amazing oppurtinity. I exhibited my investigations and Case Study alongside my work so that people could understand the benefits of Tactile Textiles for those with dementia. It was interesting to see how so many people wanted to touch and feel the piece without any prompt to do so. The contrast in colours, weight and textures make it a tactile and comforting piece.
I was lucky enough to get 2nd prize in the show and awarded £500 for my response to the title “Emotive Memories” the judges explained how they were touched by a response such as mine in a society where the elderly with diseases such as Dementia are often forgotton about. This was rewarding but also shined a light on an issue that is so often pushed aside in our busy lifestyles.
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I’M STUCK
So last night I had a nightmare that I had to have a week off from uni because I was ill and when I came back someone had woven noses into my warp...genuinely a design simply made from noses. And TBH i still haven’t recovered. I genuinely feel stressed today for the first time in a while...I think it’s starting to hit me just how close we are to hand in and just how much I have to do. From headering samples, to embroidering them, to self avluations forms TO ACTUALLY WEAVING SAMPLES. For some reason though mood boards are really stressing me out. To me my mood boards are my weakness. Verbally I can communicate my ideas well enough however visually I struggle to get it it across without saying anything. How do I bring together all the research and all the ideas I’ve had along the way to just one mood board. I think I overcomplicate it and turn it into something I don’t need to. Just in general I would be so much happier if they weren’t a necessity.
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Setting the loom up
I finally finished setting up the loom the today. I don’t if it’s working. Shaft 28 is being a pain and not doing what it’s supposed to do and the silk won’t tension evenly. It maybe a case that I need to retension it on Monday. However I need it to work. Not because I need the work, however that would be lush, but more because I spent a week setting it up let alone dying and hand painting the warp. If it doesn’t work I think I will implode and my sanity will be gone.
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Bonnie
I had a tutorial with Bonnie and it was like a sharing of knowledge it was really a lovely change. She asked me to explain how I did my warp and what difference hand painting my warp had. I explained the difference in textures and how I could created areas of solid colours vs areas where the colour was really busy. But then she pointed out where I needed to make patterns more obvious or do weaves that were a lot simpler to contrast with the busy weaves. She also agreed with Nick in that I needed to put the neon down and to use metallics to move on with. But in general I feel comfortable with what I need to do it’s just a case of....can I do it in two weeks?
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Textprint
So in normal Beth style when Nick mentioned to me in my tutorial that he was considering putting me in for textprint I was like yeah yeah another competition and zoned off a bit. However, since then I have started to realise that actually this was kind of a big deal.
To think that I was selected from my peers etc was a nice feeling but also made me realise that maybe I should start taking my textiles a bit more seriously. I do it because I love it. I love the emotional connection people can get from textiles, I love sitting there for hours and beading to add that bit of glitz and glam, and I love trying to find the balance between taking it too far and it being just about right. In general I don’t really take into consideration what other people think because...well I don’t know really. Probably because it goes in one ear and out the other whether it’s negative or positive I just tend to stay in my own little bubble.
But to think that maybe other people may like it is rewarding and makes me want to work harder; there’s me thinking is it too weird or too different and people are thinking the opposite. However this now comes with the added pressure of doing a 101 different things that I hadn’t thought about before all before deadline. For example pricing, how well do I really know my concept, what market is it going into, what trend is it going into, is it for commercial use or is it couture, would I sell it to inspire others, what technical notes do I have, do I have a colour investigation file that kind of thing. Stuff that seems pretty obvious but hadn’t really come to my attention yet.
Saying that this is all hear say as Textprint have to even select me for an interview based on what Nick says and no imagery to back his opinion up and where he has positioned me in the rankings. In all it feels like a lot of if’s and but’s however if I make out in my head this is going to happen then I’ll be prepared for this and if this falls through there’ll be other things I’ll need this for such as Degree show or even New Designers.
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