GEMMA TOVEY SURFACE DESIGN MADE BY TECHNOLOGY
ABOUT ME Tel: 07540228605 Email: u1057666@unimail.hud.ac.uk Currently I am a final year student studying Surface Design for Fashion and Interiors with one-year work experience. I worked in both the fashion and interior industries, working for companies such as Topshop, M & S, Muraspec, Ege and Scarlet Opus for example. I am passionate about design, art and fashion and I am continuously inspired by the designs, surfaces and textures I see around me, both within trends and my everyday environment. Using photography to capture these ideas and imagery, often exploring less obvious themes within my work. I take a very hands-on approach to design and enjoy spending time in the print workshop, testing new ideas and processes and exploring new possibilities within the design. At present I am researching into the future of surface pattern and print design. This inspires my own design work as I continue to question and discuss how, as a designer, we might need to change in order to meet the demands of the customer in an ever-changing technological society.
Current Sketch Book & Drawing Research
PROJECT STATEMENT “Made by Technology� is a research project, inspired by the latest advancements in science and technology. It looks into how these influences are translating into surface patterns and print designs, particularly within the fashion industry. With our constant interaction with digital devices and our growing interest in space developments how will this influence design and will our interaction with nature be re-invented in a new digital form as we enter into a new industrial revolution? This project takes a very experimental approach, testing textile processes, new material combinations, photography, drawings and computer aided design to create some visually exciting surface applications. It tests the boundaries of Perspex to be altered into 3D structures for fashion, taking inspiration from the latest trends in 3D printed garment technology. An important part of my research has also been largely focused on recording and drawing through photography, continuously photographing and re-photographing my work and manipulating imagery to create digitally, re-invented designs. The future is here and is continuously changing; wish vast amounts of new information available daily through the Internet and social media, inspiring a new style of visuals braking away from the traditional rules and our connections with nature, moving into a new invention of design, as these worlds collide. This project continues to explore these themes, testing and exploring new imagery.
TREND INSPIRATION
Unworldly
Made By Technology
Light Photography
Re - Invented Nature Electric White
Vibrant Yellow
Deepest Black
Digital Age
Techno Blue
Smart Technology
Soft Neon Pastel
Unworldly T urquoise
Futuristic
3D Printing
Florescent Pink
Soft Future Tones
X-ray Navy
FASHION RESEARCH Transparency X - ray Jacket SCOTTeVEST
Tomaas Photographer
3D Printed Materials
Future Fashion
Frances Bitonti
Atton Conrad
New material Technology
Anouk Wipprecht Intimacy
Issey Miyake
Responsive Adaptive Surfaces
LED Light Patterns
skin Bubelle dress (Philips Design)
Paparazzi lover Ricardo O’Nascimento
New Structures Hussein Chalayan
Ying Gao
Be Visable 2.0 Milko Boyarov
FASHION SAMPLES
Textiles mono printing with remazol dyes combined with laser-cut Perspex
Made By Technology
Referance: Model - Anna Selezneva photographed by Fabien Baron, Dress - S/S 09 Calavin Klein
Material experimentation – Velvet devorè printed fabric combined with laser-cut and sewn acetate.
Made By Technology
Reference: Wonderland, Summer 2013, Jumper by Topshop unique and Trousers by Lacoste.
Digitally printed fabric combined with laser-cut tracing paper and acetate, experimenting with layering transparencies.
Made By Technology
Reference: Wonderland, September/ October 2013, page 28, Chloe
Etched laser-cut acetate combined with digitally produced CAD designs, layering and testing material combinations.
Made By Technology
Reference: Wonderland, September/ October 2013, Top by Jill Sanders.
REFERENCING Trend Inspiration Board Page 4 Row 1
Row 3
• Jimon fashion art magazine, spring summer 2013, Les Chaussure, photographer Luzena Adams, Stylist James Rosenthal, Hair Martin Christopher Harper. • Roger Hiorns copper sulphate crystal cave (seizure) • Underwater: Felix Salazar reef photography, retrieved from http://felixsalazar.com/pages/photography/port folio/. • Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai, retrieved from http:// www.flickr.com/photos/mdsimages/3393353657/in/ photostream/ • Warren Krepsaw, Fungi, Photography, retrieved from http://www.thephotoargus.com/inspiration/32-in triguing-examples-of-fungi-photography/. • Warren Krepsaw, Mushroom Gill, Photograph, retrieved from http://www.thephotoargus.com/inspi ration/32-intriguing-examples-of-fungi-photogra phy/. • Jake Evill, 3D printed Cast, Cortex, Retrieved from http://jakevilldesign.dunked.com/cortex.
• Gemma Tovey, Light photography • Nebulosa del Corazón, Retrieved from http://exploracionovni.com/2012/01/nebulo sas-arte-en-el-universo/ebula-heart/ • Magic mushrooms, Retrieved from http://fluo rescentnoodles.tumblr.com/post/14173735809 • George W Hart, Sand Dollars, Retrieved from http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/ sand-dollars.html • Labvert Architectural design, Code It, Re trieved from http://www.labvert.com/?sto ry=62. • Eunjeong Jeon Engineered fabric, visionary textiles: innovation and sustainability in textile design, p.226. • Fabian Oefner, Millefiori, Retrieved from http://fabianoefner.com/?page_id=34.
Row 2 • Adria Navarro, Ink Landscape, Retrieved from http://adrianavarro.net/projects/inks capes/. • Ruptured Space, Retrieved from http:// webtaj.com/ruptured-space-2-22290.html. • Robert Buelterman, Electrocuted Flowers, Retrieved from http://www.designboom. com/art/electrocuted-flowers-by-robert-bu elteman/. • Torkil Gudnason, Flowers, Retrieved from http://watchyoureye.com/hhc/.
Row 4 • Jimon fashion art magazine, spring summer Les Chaussure, photographer Luzena Adams, Stylist James Rosenthal, Hair Martin Christo pher Harper. • Gemma Tovey, Light Photography • Helena Andersson, Glaze ceramic Detail, Re trieved from http://www.helenaandersson.com/ verk/galleri-iii/ • Jake Evill, 3D printed Cast, Cortex, Retrieved from http://jakevilldesign.dunked.com/cortex. • Marimekko, Platter, Retrieved from https:// www.marimekko.com/se/onlinestore/home. • Rotman, Underwater eden: 365 days Abrams.