5 Chosen Images & Me as a Designer - Rachel Higham

Here are 5 images from my favorites file that I find extremely inspirational:

Adolie Day.                                                                                                                                                          I found this little postcard and envelope in ‘kitch kitchen’ in Amsterdam. The colours are quite subtle yet the images running around the outside are delicately fussy. The composition of girl/dears/flowers  and presents gives a rich bold statement and compared to th

e size of the car

d and envelope is just perfect as a little cute gift and works all round as a whole.

Stephen Dizon and Alison Welsh, 

Along side Chloe Hewitt’s work this piece is one of my favourit

e textile designs. I ad

ore art that can be manipulated ar

ound 3-D objects, that you can see, touch and feel you are a part of. I never like to create a piece that can’t be held, and until seeing the fabric for this Armchair Politico, I never really thought about mixing interior with this style of textiles. The different layers

 and manipulated areas of this chair stand out to me, and the colours are again quite subdued but 

I think this gives a great contrast to the new stitch against aged fabrics.

Claire Scully

Scully uses her illustration as a means to portray the intricacy of nature; I find it really interesting how she then uses a laser cutter to burn the image’s back into the wood. Or simply prints them back onto the blocks of wood that don’t necessarily have the bark left of them.

Birdy & Me – Kelly smith

What draws me to Smiths work, is firstly the attention to detail she puts into her narrative illustration, these drawings draw you in, and the loose style of drawing with block colours for the clothes really make these illustrations unique.

Florence Manlik.

“Lets say it’s some metaphysical quest with ony the help of 0.20 pens” – Manlik. These hypnotic line drawings really make me end up spe

nd too long following the lines and weaving in and out of the image, I love how every time I return to this image I can pick up from a new point and admire I different part of Manlik’s image.

Overall I love mainly most things 3-D that have an illustrative element, If you can touch it I'll be there. I also find the elements of stitch and embroidery extremely versatile and how altho seen as an old fashioned method of portraying imagery, such as 15th century tapestry, it can also be used in a more new and innovative style such as through Laura McCafferty and Clare Coles' work. I feel that after my first year in Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern, I have explored a lot of different techniques that have pushed my curiosity and style, so that I can now analyse which field I want to pursue my design work.