Life drawings by Franco Clun

Franco Clun is an italian artist who only uses pencils and paper, but he makes his incredible life drawings look like photographs. And astonishingly he has never had a art class, he had taught himself to draw by reading some drawing manuals. 

Drawing of star James Franco

Landscape drawing

Drawing by Franco 

I think that his passion and determination for drawing is really admirable and inspiring.

Socio economics

Socio economics is the studies on societies and how they differ from one another. There are social groups,  graded from 'A-E', 'A' being at the top ranks, for example someone who is high managerial. 'C'                
being in the middle, someone who is junior management/skilled manual worker. And 'E' calss being at the bottom, which is a casual labourer.

Lia Griffith paper making

Lia Griffith is a fashion and graphic designer, who has been a costumer for plays and has made a line of children's clothing. She was asked by Xerox to do a project where she would create a dress that shows off their new printers vivd colour capability. Lia went on and created seven beautiful dresses that had also featured paintings done by her collaborator Sean Moran.

Both Lia and Sean worked together creating patterns, art works, quotes, and then they were all transferred onto 11x17 sheets of white paper. Lia took it a set further by transforming the colour copies in to high fashion, by sewing, hot gluing and cutting. Things that inspire her amazing designs are nature based, and for her next collect, they will be inspired by things that can fly, and that can bloom.

Ralph John Perou photography

Perou is well known for many things, including fashion portrait and music photography. He was born in 1970 in east Sussex. It wasn't until he had finished his Design A levels that he decided that he was going to complete his BTEC OND in Design Photography. Shortly afterwards in 1994 he completed his BA Hons degree in Photography, Films and Video Arts at the University of Westminster.

While working as a studio manager he met many of the worlds leading photographers. During his time working there, he had learnt to do photography professionally and had done shoots for editorial clients, such as 'Time Out', 'Dazed and Confused' magazine, 'Skin Two', and he also took shots of music bands.

He had his own show in 2011 called 'Dirty Sexy Things', where it would document a group of models doing different shoots for him that leads to his big exhibition. That is where I first came across Perou and admired his photography skills, especially his fashion photographs.

V&A

The V&A are having an exhibition called 'Club to Catwalk', which is where we get to experience fashion trends in the 80's and it will be showcasing new and adventurous looks by young new designers, including Betty Jackson.

It will be showing and telling about the famous London club scene, as that was a major cause for young people to dress up more and try new trends. And that was what influenced the new designers back then to create things that the young generation wanted.
It then took to the catwalks, even around the world, all because of the new influences from the London club scene. John Galliano had recalled, "Thursday and Friday nights at St Martins, the college was absolutely deserted, everyone has at home working on their costumes for the weekend". This also brings but the DIY phase that was in the 80's.

Next nature Trend

WGSN has forecasted that Next Nature is the new trend. Next Nature is human kind creating the next nature, with unpredictable patterns and designs. Its recreating nature, where we can in the future use things biologically rather than mechanically.

There will be many carnival styled colours used that will influence the latest trends and make up styles, such as using tropical eyes shadow colours, and for nails, 3D manicures will still be in trend and berry colours will be used as it gives a textured look that gives a velvet effect.

When it comes to packaging, it will be very organic and it will have a camouflage effect. Floral illustrations would go well with bottles, especially with dark green tones. The packaging could also be shaped like nature, for example a box opens like a blooming flower.

Packaging for Topshop

I produced a small box for Topshop. Using a box template, I used and mixed different patterns that I had created together to put on the 'face' of the box. I also labelled the longer sides of the box with 'Topshop'. The materials used were coloured tissues and paper. The design is very trendy and unique.