dylan ryan

these were some of the beginning designs i had for the skirt.

this is a selection of some designs i was exploring to be able to build up a collection and a design for the skirt we are making as part of this 6 week project.

i struggled to get good sources of colour that linked to the topics i was exploring in the collection for a long time.

i began with japanese woodblock prints which made no sense. i then found similar colour sources as the woodblock prints in styling elements of the people around me such as headbands and bracelets. reanalyzing my mindmaps, i then looked more into existing examples of documentation of people's everyday styling, such as the social media accounts of @lsadfits and @outfitsofncad on instagram, as well as the people of new york accounts.

settling upon pictures from the social media accounts of @lsadfits and @outfitsofncad as my source of colour, i searched through and found the most commonly featured colours which would work for colour sourcing. then in looking for fabrics that worked and matched the sourced colours, i altered the colour board to better reflect and compliment my inspiration and concept boards.

i used primary research of college students and their clothing i encountered throughout the week, different collections that explored silhouettes and styling that i am taking inspiration from, a book called "jocks and nerds" and tracings/drawings of shapes on the body that were the beginning of my exploration of shape for the collection.

we began this project by choosing a topic and exploring through mindmaps where we could source our inspiration from.

i chose to look into the topics "a life of athletic leisure" and "portrait" focusing on the everyday college student and their dressing.

experimenting and playing around with the way the bags move and float was fun and interesting to see the effects of.

keeping the bags attached partially to each other, we created chains and different formations that allowed for interesting movement.

here is one example of the types of movements we were able to create while playing around with the forms ability.

i used and experimented with different lighting effects, configurations of structure, props, and conceptual ideas.

i had planned to try out experimenting with injecting the bubble wrap with ink or water based paint at the top and diffuse the colour out down the teepee but the simplistic more white/iridescence is more visually stimulating, in my opinion.

the plain bubble wrap also adds a nice effect with a person inside it when it is transparent.

we started by mapping our stop motion animation onto boxes but then brought in the objects we were working with in sculpture to project on.

after playing with and getting used to the projection program, we were given the task to project an area of the room so we were assigned the back wall and below is the projection we ended up with.

i made a tipi using bamboo sticks as the base structure. i solidified the structure by tying the bamboo together using wire and covering it with a plastic bag to keep a connection between the works.

making the bubble wrap walls was very simple, i just laid the structure down on the bubble wrap and drew around the shape.

below are the sculptures which i made during the workshop. my goal was to reflect the concept behind her project, as well as capture some of the effect the plastic discarded in the ocean has on animals in the water.

the sculptures made during the workshop were put on display down by the sculpture department by the 4th year and by the tutors from the department.

i wanted to lay out the bags in the base shape of a room and play around with size/scale and dimensions that the room could be. in order to be effective, i planned for the room to be 10ft×8ft in base and about 5ft3" tall on the inside.

trying to see if I could reduce the amount of bags i would require, i tried changing the size down to 8ft×5ft in base and 5ft high. i tried out a few other sizes, however, in the end i decide the smaller scale wouldn't work because the room wasn't as effective.

i began to fill the glass tank with the different plastic bags i had. each time trying to alter the composition.

i experimented with this for a few days and with each of the different plastic bags i thought of featuring differently.