Textile Technology Part 4Accessing the Design and Visual Communication Achievement Standards through a Textiles

Programme

Lesley Pearce

AS91067 (1.34)

• Use the work of an influential designer to inform design ideas

• 3 credits

Three steps1. Choose an influential designer, anaylse their

work. Identify the typical aesthetic and /or functional style of designer, show through pictures, photographs, detailed sketches

2. Using the designers typical characteristics generate design ideas, explore, refine ideas. Use notes to explain ideas.

3. Communicate own design can be sketches, model, computer generated. Do not have to be realised.

Research one fashion designer or one visual artist

• What is the style of your chosen artist/fashion designer?

• Can you see where they got their inspiration from?

• Chose one painting/one seasons work, analyses it it terms of function and aesthetics

Bill Gibb 1970’s

What are the typical aesthetic and/or functional characteristics of Bill Gibb?

Bill Gibb• romantic and ethnic clothes, inspired by the folk

costumes of Europe or the Near East • a feeling of nostalgia for the dress of an earlier

historical age, with his full-length skirts and billowing slashed sleeves

• Enterprising and ingenious use of textures, weaves, and patterns in fabrics and knitting

• Mixed florals with geometrics, tartans with checks

Informs student design ideas

Inspired by Alexander McQueen and John Galliano

Jorn Utzon

• Sydney Opera House

•Organic buildings•never linear or rigidly geometric •wavy lines and curved shapes suggestive of natural forms•sculpturesque,•sharp angles with strong definition juxtaposed with smooth surfaces

Student designs influenced by work of Jorn Utzon

Influence

Achieved Identifies, explains aesthetic and/or functional characteristics typical of influential designerThis is reflected in student work

Merit Identifies and explains the aesthetic/functional characteristics of an influential designerIntegrates aesthetic and/or functional characteristics of influential designer into own development of design ideas

Excellence Identifies and explains influential designers typical styleIntegrates aesthetic and/or functional characteristics of influential designer into own development of design ideas so it is effective in the new context