Liberty Art Fabrics Design Team: A/W 12 Print Collection

Above is a video from Liberty's Art Fabrics Design Team and each of their design/collections for the A/W12 Print Collection. Each of them have different approaches to their designs and different inspirations which really interests me. All the designs are amazing and I really like the creativity behind all of the ideas and concepts.
During the video, the design team are interviewed whilst sat at their desks, and in the background you can see their computer with their work on it, they then start developing and changing the design by playing around with colours and shapes. It really interests me as to how fast you can change aspects of a design. They also talk about how the swatches were created and why. 

Sally's designs called Camilla was inspired by leaves and pondweed and they're designs were based on print techniques. Sally shares that 'its normally a design that we would have to do digitally because of the amount of colour, but as the brief was print techniques we tried to do it conventionally and use screen printing'. This resulted in using 10 screen printers, but I feel that it worked just as well and the designs are gorgeous.  

Altogether, I feel that this video highlights and gives an insight to the fashion industry and how fast paced and creative it is. This video on the whole is an eye opener to everyone.

Nicole B: Textile Designer Boden

As a textile designer, your job heavily relies on computer software. For Example CAD, illustrator etc. Below is a youtube video of Nicola B who is a textile designer at Boden and throughout the video you can see her using computer software to manipulate and develop textile prints and designs. As you can see this is very helpful in the modern world as you can change and develop designs with a click of a button, as apposed to re-drawing ideas out over and over again.
I feel that this job role would be good for me as I like the idea of exhausting ideas for textile prints and creating garments with these prints on them, also using global inspiration to create these designs, however I feel that I would not be creative enough to create a design. 

Flower Drawing Using Illustrator

Above is a drawing that I created using illustrator. The reason that I drew a flower was due to the idea of using it as a textile design on a garment. I took this picture in my garden and thought that it was a very good image to use for textile design as the thread could portray a scratchy effect on the material.