Thomas Elliott Activewear Design Introduction to Research Strategies 1. Breadth 2. Detail
Breadth Increasing the scope of research by making connection through visual associations.
RenĂŠ Lacoste 1924
Discovered in These Tremendous Years 1919-1938 published by the Daily Express in 1938.
David Bowie Hunky Dorky Artwork, 1971
Dancers at a Northern Soul all-nighter in 1975
Yohji Yamamoto, photographed by Donata Wenders, Spring/ Spring 1991
Yohji Yamamoto by Nick Knight, 1986
Susie Bick through the lenses of Nick Knight Yohji Yamamoto, Fall 1988.
NikeLab x Sacai 2015
Venus Williams of the U.S. Open, 2015
Anais Pouliot by Viviane Sassen for Carven, Fall 2012
Viviane Sassen, ‘Untitled’ 2011
Preliminary sketch for a poster, El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky
Varvara Stepanova, Costume design for Tarelkin’s Death, 1922
The Vitruvian Man ,1485 Accademia, Venice
Leonardo da Vinci; pen and ink with wash and black chalk, 1510-11
Andreas Vesalius, 1543
Bram Stoker’s Dracula 1992
Eiko Nishioka costumes for Dracula
Issey Miyake by Herb Ritts, 1989
Pleats Please Issey Miyake Book
Orange and Yellow, Mark Rothko 1956.
Crop of Venus Williams in the U.S. Open, 2015
Combining research strands Some of the research strands may not be relevant and can be purged, other can be combined to create sheets that can be the basis to design from.
Detail Focusing on a single research strand to uncover a less familiar facet.