Holly Levell is a textile artist specialsing in the everydayness through her soft sculptures.
Her work is amazing. So realistic! Check out her website for more of her work, http://www.hollylevell.com
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Saturday, 21 December 2013
Emily Sutton
Emily Sutton's work incorporates a love of pattern and detail and is strongly influenced by the landscape and creatures of her surroundings in the Yorkshire countryside as well as all kinds of weird and wonderful objects found in museums and antique shops.
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Carola Van Dyke
A scrumptious mix of
cushions, textile taxidermy heads and paintings for your home. Cushion designs
include countryside, dogs, birds, cats, moths and skulls.
I love the mix of different patterned vintage fabrics she uses to create each piece.
Unique and quirky!
Saturday, 14 December 2013
Anthropologie - Gift Guide
I have collected together some products, printed and embroidered, whilst browsing http://www.anthropologie.eu/anthro/index.jsp to create another gift guide. I love the Christmas light print on the apron, the embroidered tea towel and the waterlily cushion.
Karen Nichol
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Karen Nichol is an embroidery and mixed media textile artist working in gallery, fashion and interiors.
Big inspiration for my own embroidered fish for our embellished textiles module.
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Here are a few more of her pieces that I find inspiring.
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Mary Katrantzou
Mary Katrantzou's exclusive resort 2014 collection has a lot of different eye catching, bold, bright and colourful prints. The 'Coraline Sweatshirt' and the 'Lupin Dress' are a couple of my favourite pieces from the collection.
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Not On The High Street - Gift Guide
I have collected together some printed products whilst browsing http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/ to create a gift guide. I really like the Thornback & Peel bird and egg cushion and the 'every cloud has a silver lining' print would bring a pop of colour to a plain boring wall. These would make great Christmas Gifts!
Ethics
Today in professional studies we looked at ethical and environmental issues in the textiles industry.
Here are some pointers that we looked at:
ETHICS - Moral principles that governs a persons behavior
CRITICAL THINKING - Objective analysis and evaluation of issues to form a judgement
SECONDARY RESEARCH - internet, peoples photos, drawings, words, visual work
You shouldn't really use anything that isn't your own work.
MASS PRODUCTION - cheap labor, pay, bad working conditions, consumer needs, driven by advertising and trends
CONSUMERISM - Protection or promotion of the interests of consumers growth has led to organizations improving service to customers
Here are some pointers that we looked at:
ETHICS - Moral principles that governs a persons behavior
CRITICAL THINKING - Objective analysis and evaluation of issues to form a judgement
SECONDARY RESEARCH - internet, peoples photos, drawings, words, visual work
You shouldn't really use anything that isn't your own work.
MASS PRODUCTION - cheap labor, pay, bad working conditions, consumer needs, driven by advertising and trends
CONSUMERISM - Protection or promotion of the interests of consumers growth has led to organizations improving service to customers
Target Market/Customers
Finding and evaluating target customers
Knowledge is everything when it comes to identifying which groups of customers you should be targeting. Market research will help you understand more about the needs, tastes and spending habits of different groups of potential customers. This should tell you about the customer segments most likely to buy into your offer and the kind of marketing and sales activities they will respond to.Understanding what your rivals are up to is critical. Questions to ask yourself:
How are they working with your target groups? would you do better or worse? Where are the gaps in their offer and in their marketing? Are group of customers being ignored by rivals? Could you target these profitably?
Target Market
Not all customers are the same. A target market represents a specific type of buyer that a company has identified as potentially interested in the company's product or service. A target market can represent an identified niche. For example, a small manufacturer might tailor its design and production outputs to the home textiles market, which represents a relatively large market segment. The manufacturer can also tailor its productions to environmentally conscious consumers, similar to Europe's Ecolabel textile products. In such a case, the manufacturer can then market products to both general retailers in the household textile market and retailers in the niche environmental products market.http://www.marketingdonut.co.uk/marketing/marketing-strategy/your-target-market
http://www.ehow.com/info_8625985_textile-industry-marketing-plan.html
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