LONDON GRADUATE FASHION WEEK 2009.
My design would also be reused after GFW and used again once returned to the college to showcase the work of the third year
This project was a competition to design an exhibition stand for
fashion students at the annual ‘Work In Progress exhibition.
London Graduate Fashion Week 2009 for the Fashion depart-
After the students chose my design I had the responsibility of
ment at eca. The competition ran for a period of 6 weeks and
sourcing all the materials, organizing all the various stages
within this time we met with the fashion students and their
including costing and keeping within the budget.
tutors regularly to receive feedback on our proposals. The fabric of my design was built by myself and three fellow From the outset I had decided to design for ease of assembly
students. I also worked with an animation student who produced
as well as disassembly due to time constraints and a budget of
a stylish ‘Title Sequence’ which was shown throughout the 3 day
£1500. The brief stated that the exhibition stand should be easily
event.
transportable and assembled within two days. My design was short listed in the top three for ‘The Best ExhibiThe appeal of my design was its simplicity. The seating and portfo-
tion Stand Design Award 2009’ out of nearly 50 colleges from the
lio storage were comprised of rented scaffold planks which were
UK as well as overseas competing against professional designers.
returned after the event. This minimized costs, labour and the level of waste usually produced by exhibition stands after their duration. These were ‘bound’ with orange ratchet lashings (the colour of eca’s logo) with ‘eca’ printed onto them.
1:100 Concept Model.
LONDON GRADUATE FASHION WEEK JUNE 2009. Plan of Final Design.
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1. Scaffold Plank Seating & Ratchet Lashings. 2. Portfolio Storage. Scaffold Planks, Reclaimed Timber Divides & Ratchet Lashing. 3. 24” AppleMac Monitor showing animation by Nick Rowly BA (Hons) Animation. 4. Eleven Garment Display Stands. OSB Storage Boxes on caster wheels. 5. ‘Samples’ display. Garment rack and OSB island on castors. Flooring: Varnished MDF Floor area: 60m2 Budget: £1500. Cost of Design: £500.
Press Photograph courtesy of GFW. Photograph featured on GFW’s homepage.
LONDON GRADUATE FASHION WEEK JUNE 2009. Details.
LONDON GRADUATE FASHION WEEK JUNE 2009. Garment Display Stand & Storage Box Detail.
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LONDON GRADUATE FASHION WEEK JUNE 2009 Garment Display System and Storage Box.
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