Gemma Tovey - Press Pack

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.