Day 19 11.03.15

I put my Paisley design into a repeat pattern. I cleaned it up some more and improved the colour.

Added more to the edges so it wasn't obvious where it was repeating.

Printed it out and checked how it looked and kept on adding extra bits and moving stuff around to make it look better.

Day 18 10.03.15

I continued creating a Paisley design. I spent the day cleaning my design up and drawing my design on Photoshop.

Week 7 Day 18 09.03.15

I showed Joanne my best Portuguese trend final design, she liked it which was really good and made me feel like I had worked hard.

I then started looking for inspiration for a 'Paisley' design and painted some in watercolour raedy for my next design.

Day 17 04.03.15

Star design

I  took grey star design which had been done for M & S in the past and recoloured it using the colours M & S had sent in a brief. 

Once I printed it out the colours didn't match the pantone colours as colours from your computer change when they are printed on paper. I had to print it several times so that the colours were the same as my pantone colours.

Day 16 03.03.15

I continued creating the Dunelm market board I started yesterday. It took a while to do as there was a lot of bedding that I needed to add onto a Photoshop page and make sure I added each one into its correct category.

Week 6 Day 15 02.03.15

I created market boards on PhotoShop of Wilkinsons and Dunelm bedding. I added the images and names and put them into different sections depending on what price range they are and what fabric they are made from.

Wilkinsons bedding had multiple ones that were the same price and fabric and Dunelm did, however Dunelm had more bedding choice and bedding that was at a higher price.

Day 14 25.02.15

I matched and selected Pantone colours for Trend collection pages. I had to pick out the main and most prominent colours of each trend then find the closest matching Pantone colours then stick them down on each Trend page.

Day 13 24.02.15

I continued doing strip designs of my portuguese repeat patterns. I did several designs to see which way the patterns looked best, what size strips looked best and what worked.

Week 5 Day 12 23.02.15

I completed my flowers with leaf drawing by making it into a repeat design on Photoshop.

Repeat design



I then gathered all of the repeat designs I had created for the Portuguese trend and  using the designs that worked well together I designed a bedding design that had strips of each design.

Day 11 20.02.15

Flower and Leaf design

I created a flower and leaf drawing, I then painted it using watercolour paints. Once dry I scanned it into my computer and opened it in Adobe Photoshop. 

When on Photoshop I cleaned it up by removing pencil marks, making all of the edges and lines smooth and straight, and making the colours blend in better.

After cleaning it up I made it into an offset repeat. 

Flower and leaf drawn and painted

Cleaned up on Photoshop

Week 4 Day 10 18.02.15

I continued painting and creating repeat designs for the Portuguese trend.

Day 9 11.02.15

I continued working on creating watercolour drawings and designs for the Portuguese trend.

Day 8 10.02.15

I looked for inspiration on Pinterest for an upcoming trend I am starting to work on, 'Portuguese'. I looked at Tiles and different patterns that were on tiles.

 When I saw one I admired I did my own version of it in watercolour paint. I then scanned my painting in and opened it on photoshop. I cleaned it up, cropped it, then put it into a repeat. I did this for a couple of different watercolour paintings.

Week 3 Day 7 09.02.15

Morning

I started doing a new reverse pattern for the Retro floral print bedding design I have been working.

Afternoon

I browsed the internet and started to create a couple of designs based on a trend breif I got given, 'Morning Dew'. This is based on Clouds and Birds. 

Day 6 04.02.15

I started off by finishing off the second colour palette.

I then started to think of ideas for a reverse side for the duvet cover. I started to put together a reverse side; however there was so many options and choices of what I could do it was hard to start! I am planning on doing a few reverse sides. I will be showing Sam (designer) next week to see her opinion and where to go from there.

Sam has been helping me with my design work and giving her idea and opinion based on my opinion, making it look better and more commercial.

Day 5 03.02.15

I re printed a strip of  my design to re check the colour as I had ammended some of the colours to make them more suited to the market criteria, this included the background as I felt like it was too bright and needed toning down. Once re printed the colours looked a lot better and worked well together.

I started to create a second colour palette to see how my design looked in new colours. I looked at colours from the upcoming trend, '1980s Modern Movement'. The colours were very similar to the ones I had done in my first one. I simply changed a few of the shades, both look similar but different in their own unique way.

Week 2 Day 4 02.01.15

I made my design look neater and more professional as when you zoomed in there was white lines around each colour where the colour hadn't been added.

I added a new textured background which worked better than the previous one. I chose a weave style one that looked good.

I printed a strip of it to check the colours and see how they looked and if they were too bright/dull.

I started changing a few of the colours as some of them were too bright and needed toning down. For example, the yellow looked nice on the computer but once printed it came out more out very bright which made the bedding look like it was more suited to kids, this wasn't the market I was going for so I had to change my colours to make it work to the correct market age group.

Day 3 28.01.15

This morning I showed my flower design I had created yesterday to Joanne (manager) and discussed what to change. I worked on the changes throughout the day.

I changed the background from a textured background to a plain background as the texture didn't work with the flower design, I will be adding a new texture more suited to the flower design once I have changed the structure.

I made it less structured and more random by having flowers that were different sizes and not in lines so it was more free and flowed better.

I looked at the design I liked from Next and made it look more like that one as that was my inspiration.

Next bedding design

Day 2 27.01.15

Working on my flower design

I started off by selecting my flowers from the white background so I could easily select each flower and add a new background onto it.

I then got a black and white textured background that I liked (they have a big folder of different textures) and changed the colour of it to a light blue, to catch my colour palette.

I moved each flower to a new page document and started to create a pattern I admired. Once I created a pattern I put it into a repeat pattern (using the offset filter) so that it would fully work as a pattern.

Week 1 Day 1 26.01.15

I had my first day at my new placement, Gul Ahmed at GTM Europe in Manchester. I will be doing this placement three days a week. I will be using Photoshop and creating designs. GTM Europe specialise in Homeware, in particular Bedding and sometimes Curtains.

Morning

In the morning myself and Sam (designer) went to the Trafford Centre in manchester to do a comp shop so that we knew what the latest trends were. We went in Next, BHS, John Lewis and Dwell. This was really helpful as it meant I knew what types of patterns and designs were currently in the market. I took a lot of photos and found a design which I particularly loved.

Afternoon 

From the design I liked I drew a few different flowers, then scanned it in and opened it in Photoshop. I added colour to each flower using a selection of colours I thought matched and worked well together.