This week's exercise was to create a set of rules and follow them to create new shapes.
My rules were as follows:
Start with a triangle, than:
Add a square
Remove a triangle
Add a square
After creating a series of shapes, I than transferred them onto tracing paper which than allowed me to play around with the shape lines and structure, making them from a flat piece of paper into 3D shapes.
(This is an example of one of the transferred shapes, which I folded into different structures.)
The purpose of this exercise was to create new shapes which could than be transferred into interesting pattern pieces or used as decoration and embellishment. I found this session really interesting as the shapes I created were different and interesting every time and by manipulating and folding them I created unique 3D structures.
Our first Explore Creativity session began by making paper patterns on a stand in groups, and transforming them from 3D shapes into 2D.
The first step of the excersice was to wrap the mannequin into dott and cross paper, very tightly using sealer tape ( making sure that every curve of the body is fully expressed ).
After completing the process, our next step was to start creating a pattern on the mannequin, avoiding the traditional clothing seam lines.
In this process we also had to think about matching the pattern pieces.
To do so we used notches (just like in an industrial pattern). The ''notch rule'' is to use one notch at the front and the side of the pattern and two notches at the back.
When we finished drawing the pattern on - we took the paper patternt off the mannequin.
In order to make the pattern from 3D into 2D pieces of paper, we used a press to hold them down, adding darts on the places where the curves were greater.
What we did next was to trace the pattern on new paper (adding the seam allowence), and cut the pattern out again.
This was my first time using this method of pattern making, usually I work with measurments which is a long process. I found this session very interesting and easy to do, it takes less time to complete and it could easily be manipulated.
To finish off the session, we desided to put the pattern back together on the mannequin, however what we did was to move the pattern pieces around the body, to create a new shape and look. This is what we came up with.
Max Tan
'' Max Tan touches on androgyny and geometric deconstruction of simple patterns to create beautiful new silhouettes. “Maximizing on minimalistic ideas, proportions are sometimes blown out of proportions.”
