This gallery features a selection of design work I did for the Level 3 course. The design ‘unit’ is common to all the City & Guilds Design & Craft courses and generates ideas that can be used for craft samples and assessments. When I did the course we studied themes such as Art, Architecture, Folk Culture, Landscape etc… Now students work on the design ‘Elements’ – Colour, Line, Shape, Texture & Form.
Architecture Design board. Experiments with repeating motifs from a tower. (I forgot to make a note of the name of it – whoops)!
Folk Culture Design board based on sketches of Indian textiles.
Detail from Folk Culture board
Art Board – for my theme I chose Art Deco and Clarice Cliff for her amazing colour palette.
A section repeated to make a quilt pattern
Landscape board – interpreting landscapes in different art materials
Landscape board detail copy
Geological board. I chose to explore the curves stripes found in Agate
Geological Design Board
Industrial Design Board – experiments with black & white paper collage drawn from a Cadillac engine (top left)!
Industrial Board detail
Transport board – another black & white board, this time looking at distorted grids
The original train from a photo I took at Pwll Mawr – the National Coal Museum
Media design board – I chose packaging labels and from these developed a rotating design.
Media board – A ‘Full-working’ design demonstrating how it could be translated into a patchwork item
Water & Sky – I put this design work in a sketchbook
Line patterns
Water & Sky
Water & Sky
Exploration of ‘texture’ in water and sand.
Reflection experiment
Rippling experiment from a workshop with Pauline Burbidge
Water & Sky
Water & Sky
Exploratory Design project based on previous page
Design project notes and amending the design to fit within a square.
