Presentation Techniques

As I have already mentioned I am going to be doing the presentation of my exhibition on Windows Live Moviemaker. I had never used this program before until this project and have found that it is a great tool for portraying emotion. As my whole idea behind my design is to make people have an emotional experience I thought this would be perfect to do my presentation on. I have posted my video on here for people to watch. Some parts maybe don't flow on from each other as good as they could do but I feel that I am quite pleased with the overall outcome of this. This video may get altered before I hand it in but again I will post the final copy on to my blog.

Presentation of Exhibition

As part of my work for my exhibition I must present it and I will be doing this on Windows Live Moviemaker. On this I have used special sound effects and the website I have used them from says that I must declare the details of their website on either my art work or my blog so here it is below.
http://www.freesfx.co.uk/

Republic Design Award-Material Choices

For one of my other projects I have to design a 4 collection outfit for the travelling student. The outfit needs to be both practical and fashionable. Going on these characteristics I decided that my overall outfit needed to take up minimal space in a rucksack, easily dried, the material needed to help make the wearer feel cool and also needed to be attractive. I decided to research into different materials which actually helped to cool the body down when perspiring. I came across a material made by COOLMAX, this material is made out of polyester fibres which pull moisture away from the skin to the outer layer of fabric helping it to dry faster. This process is called evaporative cooling and a great fabric to wear in hot conditions. I have ordered several samples from a website called rockywoods.com which is an outdoor fabric shop based in America which specialises in these types of fabrics. Please see image above to see how the fabric works.

Possible Material Choices

As mentioned earlier I was looking into green screen technology, I felt this would be an alternative route to go down if there was a limited budget as this can be a reasonably cheap option. There wouldn't even necessarily need to be a cloth like the picture above as I found out the same effect can be created by just painting a wall green.

Construction Methods for Exhibition Design

You can see in the pictures below where I have started to make my designs a reality by figuring out construction methods for the different stages within the exhibition. Instead of doing an actual street scene as mentioned earlier, I looked in to the effects you could create using 'Green Screen'. I thought this would be a cheaper option if there was a budget. I am not sure if I will contine to go with the green screen idea for my final design.

The New Concious Collection from H&M

http://style.uk.msn.com/fashion/handm-conscious-collection-out-now

Ecoology

I have just come across a very interesting fashion website whos mission is to provide fashionable clothing without the expense of the environment. Started in Barcelona, they only use raw materials like tencel, milk woven fabric, cotton, bamboo, wool and linen as well as recycled fabrics. Combining fashion with eco friendly designs they are a very inspirational brand. I hope that more fashion designers start to take environmental damage more seriously and follow the same path as Ecoology. The dress pictured above is from their current Spring/Summer 2012 collection. Please click on the link to see more eco friendly fashion.
http://www.ecoology.es/en

"The most exciting new tower in the world"

After doing some research into sustainable designs I came across Stefano Boeri's Vertical Forest. I am completely amazed by the design which is still under construction in the centre of Milan. The idea is to grow forests in the sky creating fresh outdoor air for residents offering a safe healthy environment to live in. The building will add green space to an already over-industrialised city. http://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/?p=207