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Fashion. Sketched Structures - Menswear Natural Geometry - Womenswear Opera Fantasy - Womenswear Lost in Morocco - Experimental Project
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Packaging. Hello Fresh
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Home. Under the Sea
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Space. Here’s the Garden 3
Sketched Structures
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Sketched Structures is a Spring/Summer Menswear collection which inspired by Japanese architectures. Influenced by artworks of Nicholas Wilton, Joe Gamble, Giorgio Morandi and Guanzhong Wu, I created a colourful collection of pattern designs on cottons and linens.
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Digital embroidery on tie-dyed cotton
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Natural Geometry
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Natural Geometry is a Spring/ Summer Womenswear collection which was inspired by my trip to the Horniman Museum. In this collection, I combined animals in nature with geometric shapes and used colours to create a vivid natural world. 13
Development of two-meter length
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Opera Fantasy
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Opera Fantasy is a Fall/Winter Womenswear collection targeting to entry lux brands like Red Valentino. Visually inspired by the stage setting of operas, I used real flowers combined with detailed painted opera elements to create a fantastic and sumptuous taste.
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Tales of Ballycumber Stage settinng
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Sketchbook Painting
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Lost in Morocco Lost in Morocco is an exotic and experimental collection which developed with free screen processes. Inspired from the photographies I took when I traveled in Morocco, I created a range of patterns by drawing intuitively on the silk screen.
FASHION
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Hello Fresh Inspired by Wes Anderson’s movie – The Grand Budapest Hotel, this project was designed for food packaging targeting to fresh vegetables and fruits from local farms. With the colour combination and pattern dsesign, I intended to create a cosy atmosphere with the healthy and tasty food on people’s home table made by the seasonal ingredients.
PACKAGING
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Under the Sea Designed for home interior, this project was visually inspired by the underwater world. I drew in abstract style to create an impression of the world under the sea.
HOME
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Screen printed on linen
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Here’s the Garden Design Philosophy The transition from traditional to modern society has brought with it the hard-to-confess problem of loneliness. The arrival of Covid-19 has exacerbated this as ongoing public health restrictions aggravate urban isolation and mental illness. ‘Here’s the Garden’ project took inspiration from the role of gardens as a healing space and barrier, in order to bring the garden outside inside and to cultivate a space for collective healing in the city— a tactile and visual garden, as the artistic and poetic resistance of life to the fragmentation of society and the rigidity of science and technology. It provides a way to relieve negative feelings like loneliness, depression and anxiety — not by seeking out others through language, but by returning to nature and using introspection and distance to better maintain social relationships as we integrate into society.
SPACE
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Colours From The Garden The colour palette came from the garden, where I collected flowers and leaves to dye my yarns and fabrics. The colours of natural dyes turned out very soft, with qualities of healing, tranquil, refreshing, quiet and natural, the palette provides a soft and relaxing environment which is good for meditation and introspection.
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How do we connect with others, particularly if we don’t find speaking easy?
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Inspired by the shape of boundaries in garden design, I developed a series of forms, using them to buffer interactions. Counterintuitively, I set up boundaries between people and created the healing journey via textiles.
Tactile Experiments - Tufted with different qualities of natural dyed yarns
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Left: Soft Seating Model Ⅰ Top: The Ground Tufted with natural dyed mixed yarns
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Tufted with natural dyed cotton, wool yarns
Top: Prints Close-up Screen printed on ranslucent natural fabrics in order to emphasize the sense of the external wind and light Bottom: Soft Seating Model Ⅱ 57
From Physical to Digital
In order to visualise and communicate the concept better, I converted my physical materials to digital materials and applied them on models of my soft furnishings by using own-build scanner and 3D softwares (Cinema 4D, Substance Designer and Substance Painter), which could also be used in a VR world for potential. 58
Visualisation Ⅰ - Domestic home space
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The interior garden can kindle the journey of self-healing in domestic homes, as well as vaster public spaces like galleries in the city centre, such as the Piccadilly Circus Soft Opening Gallery, and other commercial space where people often in low mood like offices or healthcare facilities for potential.
Visualisation Ⅱ - Soft Opening Gallery in London’s Piccadilly Circus underground station.
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