Final Project - Sketchbook work

Experimenting with cinnamon sticks

Cinnamon stick cage and cinnamon bustle pad

Final Project - Design work and sampling

Here are a few sketchbook pages from my current project about the Human Senses.

Making a basic skirt to experiment with when exploring the senses

Experimenting with hair and buttons - working with how things feel and sound

Working with plastic bags - how things sound/feel

Working with plastic bags and tissue paper

Initial design ideas

Dying with man made dyes and pinning on the mannequin

Experimenting with a Parisian colour scheme

Dying with tea, coffee, cocoa and chilli to develop scented fabric

Experienting with paper - working with sound

Working with spices to develop the sense of smell

Experiementing with a toile to see how fabric moves when danced in

Experiementing with a toile to see how fabric moves when danced in

Design ideas

Dying with cinamon and vanilla. Felting with fennel seeds, cinamon and basil. Keeping to the Parisian colour scheme.

Final Project - Initial Research

My idea for my FMP is based around pleasing the human senses. I would like to design and make a costume piece for dance that satisfies more than just the eyes. There is so much scope in terms of finding new and innovative ways of making something that is aesthetic to the ears, nose and hands as well as the eyes.

Here is a few sketchbook pages of my initial research and from my research week in Paris.

I went looking round charity shops and picked up anything I could find that made sounds. I wanted to find things that wouldn't obviously make sound. Examples of these were: a lampshade, glass beads, a badmiton racket, forks etc. Above is an example of drawing with the objects I found eg. a fork with acrylic ink.

Magazine research into images that typically smell nice.

Magazine research into images that typically feel nice. Hair is something that is always advertised as being 'soft if you buy this conditioner' etc. There is some sort of unnatural obsession with having soft and shiny hair.

Inspiration from French architecture and colour for costume for dance.

Inspiration from French architecture and colour for costume for dance.

Inspiration from French architecture and colour for costume for dance.

Inspiration from French architecture and colour for costume for dance.

Inspiration from French architecture and colour for costume for dance. Looking at texture as well.

Designing using images that subconciously say to the eye that they smell nice.

A collection of perfume samples from Paris woven together. This page smells lovely!

Drawings from Paris

Drawing in response to the sound of The Musee D'Orsay

Continual Line Drawing