Pierre Hardy

Pierre Hardy was born and raised in Paris and has a degree in fine art, which explains his inspiration being drawn from architecture and art for his collections. He has designed for Balenciaga, Hermes, Dior and also for Gap.
In 1999 Pierre Hardy created his own brand and launched his first womens shoe summer collection. He opened his first boutique in  paris in 2003 and opened a store in NY in 2010. The brand now has mens and womens shoes as well as accessories.
His work is quirky, eccentric, at the same time, futuristic, bold and yet with referenced.

Photoshop- Creating patterns

We used 2 pictures (above) to start with and opened the water colour document to start so it was the base. We then clicked the padlock so that the background was unlocked and became a layer and then opened the butterfly jpeg and dragged it onto the watercolour page. We then aligned the butterfly, then clicked the ruler’s option and put both guides at 400 so it was central. We then created another layer of the butterfly which was a copy, and then clicked the eye on original butterfly so we couldn't see it. We then went to the view tab and turned the snap tool on and used the rectangular marquee tool around a quarter of the butterfly then cut out with command + x then pasted it back onto the board and moved it to the bottom left corner. This was so that when the pattern is repeated a complete butterfly is formed. We then cut out the left side and moved it to the left side and clicked the eye on the original pattern. When we have finished you get a piece with a butterfly in the middle and a ¼ of one on each corner. We then defined the pattern, created a new document that was 200cm by 300cm and used the bucket tool to paint in our pattern. We can change the pattern by using the offset tool and moving it to make the pattern slightly different.

Learning this technique will help me with my work and inspire me as I can make different patterns that are unique to my work and fit in perfectly with my projects which can be laser cut or printed onto fabric so that my work is more personal and unique aswell as give my work an edge to it.

Jean Dubuffet + Olympia example

French avant-garde painter, born in Le Havre (1901-1985).His paintings have developed a distinctive style of simple, primitive images in a heavily encrusted canvas.This style helped Dubuffet gain a worldwide reputation. Fascinated by the art of children and the insane, for which he coined the term art brut ("raw art"), he emulated its crude, violent energy in his own work. Critics soon applied the term art brut to Dubuffet's paintings, rather than to their stylistic source as he had intended. This artist relates to Pierre Hardy because of his use of shapes and lines. It also relates to the Olympia theme as I intend to laser cut out the pizzle pieces but for some of the pieces to be shaped in Olympia style shapes

Comment Reflection

I showed Kat my book and she has said that I should try to draw shoes and flowers from different angles i.e. upside down, hung from something and to try to draw using the surrounding space instead of the outline of the shoe, and to make shapes out of the surrounding space left outside the shoe as it can be more experimental.I also drew a few leaves and she said that I should try instead of drawing the outline of the leaf to instead draw the skeleton of the leaf and not the outline. She also said for me to do more drawings of the things that I liked and to fill in the few gaps that I had. I have therefore found some images to draw from so that I can fill in the gaps coherently and have found more leaves from which to draw. I am also going to draw all of my shoes from different angles and take photo's as well and will try to draw some flowers upside down as well so that I get different angles as I think this will be more interesting than the normal side view of a flower or shoe. I am also going to try to use the whitespace that is left over as the shape of the shoe/flower and to make a pattern from it.

Laser Cutting Induction

We had inductions on the laser cutters today and also got show how to rasterize, which is used to make picture on fabric by burning the picture on. This has inspired and affected my work as we have been looking into papercutting in one of my projects and I have wanted to have a go but didn't want to make a simple pattern or one that was so complicated I wouldn't be able to cut out. I will now be able to create delicate patterns inspired by papercut artists and can also experiment making patterns with the shapes that I have created using my own drawings.

Sebastien Preschoux

Sebastien Preshoux bases his work on  spirographs, thread tensions and also using acrylic paints. His work reminds me of Pierre Hardy beause of the strong lines and colours that are used and the geometric shapes that have been created. This has inspired me in my work because of the interesting shapes that are created by the use of thread to make strong lines and colours.

Andy Gilmore

Andy Gilmore's work is full of color and geometric composition. Andy Gilmore's work is often characterized as kaleidoscopic and hypnotic. This relates to Pierre Hardy as he often uses geometric designs to inspire his collections and always has plenty of colour in his collection. This has inspired my work as it has the Acid colours in that my trend from WGSN has in (Wonderlab Trend) and also has strong lines which I can reflect in my work which Pierre Hardy also uses.