Learning Log: Part Three – Tutors Report

In essence my third report states “you have undertaken all the suggested fabric manipulation exercises with commitment and there was a real sense of struggle, and a desire to achieve, which came over in all the work.”

This is a very positive comment.

My frustration however was with my efforts to rely heavily on photos as source material, with no close up detail, no colour or textual notes on location. “the more information you collect, the better will be your designs…………to get a degree needs designs as well as skilled craftsmanship. Rather than rely on imagination, the second stage of assignment three (developing ideas) needs to show development of ideas from source material and evidence of experimenting with source material.”

What I should have done was to select more than one interesting drawing or other piece of source material – preferably at least six – abstract out the colours, patterns, texture and shapes and develop these into working designs with for example copies, cutting, cropping, collage, reassembling, developing drawings further, more than one sample of anything.

When presenting for assessment this stage must be included.

Other constructive comments were:

Add less decoration than a piece needs.

When using a commercial design as a basis for my own design try to obliterate it in some way – bleaching.

Push experiments further making use of different colours, yarns and/or fabrics for example the stitching etc., of the denim sample.

My design samples must show how I arrived at them.

Identify samples with the original source material.

Write less in my learning log BUT say more.

For assignment four produce and send 2 or 3 A3 design sheets communicating my ideas from start to end piece showing source material, swatches, colour notes etc., with visuals of all the exercise work in my learning log.

Look at the criteria for assessment in the manual.