"Dive In!" textile collection designed with Lilly Pulitzer in mind -- a project for Digital Applications in Fibers class.
My sources of inspiration were trips to the Gulf of Mexico and to Grand Cayman. My color palette was selected from photographs of these locales. The motifs reflect my love of marine life, which is something Lilly Pulitzer and I have in common. For this project, we purposely designed with a client in mind, and my client (Lilly Pulitzer) produces clothing, accessories, home goods, and paper goods--all of which would be fun applications for my collection of prints.
"Watercolor Wave" digital textile design
Original watercolor painting of wave - inspiration for my design
Selected portion of artwork as motif to repeat
Layout research - first option
Texture mapping research
Alternate motif to repeat
Layout research - second option
Texture mapping research
Printed fabric
Detail of printed fabric
Detail of printed fabric
"Poppy" digital textile design
Poppy sketch as motif to repeat
Poppy motif further developed
Poppy print design - layout and color research
Poppy print design - color research
"Scroll Leaf" digital textile design
Scroll Leaf design - first motif to repeat
Scroll Lead design - second motif to repeat
Scroll Leaf design - colorway research
Scroll Leaf design - layout and color research
Texture mapping research
Texture mapping research
"Yellow Rose" digital textile design
Original painting of a yellow rose - my inspiration for the design
Yellow Rose design - motif to repeat
Yellow Rose design - layout research
Texture mapping research
"Indigenous" digital textile design
"Indigenous" textile pattern design in three colorways - inspired by a research project on the Giant Kite Festival of Sumpongo, Guatemala and Maya traditions
"Passion Flower and Dill" digital textile design
Passion Flower and Dill - digital textile design: This print was inspired by the symbolic meaning of a passion flower (compassion) and dill (creativity and strength amidst great odds). In a Fibers Materials and Techniques course, I researched the Great Depression of the 1930s and the phenomenon of people, out of dire necessity, making clothing and home goods out of chicken feed and flour sacks. When commodity companies realized this was happening, they chose to start printing their sacks with floral, upbeat patterns. Therefore, when poor children went to school in homemade clothes, they would not be ostracized.
Sumpongo, Guatemala-inspired kite design, digital artwork
Digital kite design inspired by my research about the Giant Kite Festival in Sumpongo, Guatemala
Kite design printed out
Kite trimmed and framed
