PRINT DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Print Design Hand and Digital

Print Design Document

Documentation by: Dhwani Mistry( Textile Design ‘21 ) Guide Ms. Sumita Agrawal

Contents

Introduction

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Media Exploration

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Design Exercise

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A Day spent in Indroda Park

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Research Board

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Theme

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Concepts

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Patterns

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Colour Pallete

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Mapping Print on Products

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PRINT DESIGN INTRODUCTION Print Design is a module where we intended to learn the process of developing patterns based on our inpiration. We used hand skills as well as digital media to come up with concepts and then develop repeats.

We were introduced to different types of prints and different arrangements.

We obsereved and studied a lot of prints from material wing and then made a Pattern-Book.I made pattern book on Paisley pattern and learnt how vastly the motif is incorporated in patterns and prints on various product categories like Apparel, Upholtery , Home Decor etc.

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Technique -Water colours and sugar

Technique- Water colour and toothbrush

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Media Exploration

Starting with a Warm up Exercise we depicted words like Food, Nightmares etc using different mediums and colours. We were instructed to go as creative as we could. No constraints or brief was given.

Further,we were suggested to explore all the different mediums to obtain different effects and textures.

I used Water colours,Acrylic Colours, Acrylic 3D outliners, Black Drawing Ink and some other miscellaneous materials to create these textures and effects.

Technique - Watercolour and Fevicol 4

Pressure Cooker Technique-Drawing Ink

Street Food Technique-Drawing Ink 5

Food

The Tangaled Noodles Technique-Drawing Ink

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Technique: Watercolours and Drawing Ink

Technique: Drawing Ink and Acrylic Paint

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Technique: DryBrush with Acrylic Paint 8

Nightmares

Technique: DryBrush with Acrylic Paint

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Design Exercise

Find a inspiring Place/element/surrounding and taking up inspirations design prints.

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A Day Spent in Indroda Park Indroda Nature Park is spread over an area of about 400 ha in Gandhinagar. The Park is divided into two parts on the banks of river Sabarmati. The western part is known as Indroda Nature Park and the eastern part of the river Sabarmati is known as Wilderness Park.

I visited this park after 8 years and found that the place is really inspiring. The beauty of nature captivated me. I was inspired by how the plants and wildlife had naturally grown on the trees that were planned and grown. The places had changed from what my memories were, some regions were developed, some left secluded.

I took up this place as my inpiration as I wanted to learn more about this park, I wanted to observe more of how the things had changed and see how the people visiting here enjoy their time.

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Indroda Park 12

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Revisiting the Forgotten Pathways

As soon as I entered I was delighted by the sight of numerous school buses full of enthusiastic children enjoying to their content.

Upon entering I remembered playing with my elder brother on the fresh grass lawns .

The way the park has developed ,how the new has grown on old inspired me.

Flashbacks run in my mind on observing parents with their kids who had came for picnic Some places where we used to sit and play earlier were now all abandoned and secluded.

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Theme

Visiting here after 8 years made me feel very nostalgic. Every place I visited I was thinking about how that place used to be earlier.

Deserted

Secluded

Unkempt

Neglected

School Picnic

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Weathered

Sticks represent families that were their for picnic Technique: Water coloue, Dry Brush and Alcoholic pen

The fresh and the dried leaves.

Technique: Water colours

Concepts I have developed concepts for developing Patterns considering my theme and the fact that Nostalgia is my general Theme.I have used multiple mediums to create textures and designs .

Children of Hillwoods school on Picnic Technique: Water colour and Acrylic colour

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Map of Indroda park from my memory and the dots depict the green cover and bougainville Technique: Glass Paints On Water Colour Paper

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Scene of my Family at the park Technique: Water Colours

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Abstracted depiction of different Stairways Technique: Dry Brush and Acrylic Paint

Muddy , worn out and the developed Kota stone stairway made me nostalgic Technique: Water colours

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Weathered bricks and cement on stairway Technique: Cement Background Glass colour on Bricks 24

Greenery Technique: Acrylic Paint

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The Secluded Gazebo Technique: Dry Brush Effect with acrylic paint

Visually stairways end into greenery Technique : Acrylic Paint

Families walking down the muddy pathways mostly with kids.

Technique:Water colour and paper cut outs.

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Students watching the caged animals with curiosity Technique: 3 layers on glass painted OHP sheet

Visualizing how we used to play on this ground on our picnics from school Technique: Acrylic paint on photograph

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Students clinged to cage for having a glance of wildlife Technique: Soft pastel and dried drawing Ink

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Me falling from the stairway there Technique:Acrylic paint

Nightmares of blue whale coming to the park

Imagining Blue Whale in Deep Waters Technique: Knife Painting with acrylic paint

Dancing Peacocks in rainy season Technique:Pastel Colour and water colour

Texture of dried grass Technique: Sticking Dried Grass 29

Feeding crows Ganthiya was one of the things I always used to do as a kid Technique: Brown Tape and Drawing Ink

Feeding crows Ganthiya was one of the things I always used to do as a kid Technique: Poster Colour 30

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Patterns

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Color Palette 34

The Life Blooms The sight of how the new grows on the old is quite astonishing. It was mesmerizing how the trunk of dead tree was a growing home for new plants .

Concept

Repeat Unit: 9.56cm x 11.02cm Type: Straight Repeat

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Infinite Stairway The multiple stairways,some muddy,some weathered some abandoned and some paved , all led to same visual sight, sight of stairways leading to trees, to greenery ,maybe be fresh maybe dried but trees,leaves or flowers.

Concept

Repeat Unit: 20.98cm x 14.81 Type: Staight Repeat

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Weathered Walkways This print is a juxtaposition of different kinds of walkways in the park. Abstraction of the weathered , the kota stone paved, the muddy etcwalkways.

Repeat Unit: 11.64cm x 11.64cm Type: Straight Repeat

Concept

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Secluded The Gazebo where we used to always sit on picnics a decade ago was now all secluded and weathered. It was cornered and had got away from the pathway.My print has a worn out effect to give that abandoned feeling.

Concept Repeat Unit: 21.62cm x 14.81cm Type : Brick RepeatW

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Follow the Bouganvillea The print is depiction of the park in top view. The green yellow brown dots depictcs the trees plants dried leaves etc and the pink depicts the Bouganvillea trees scattered all the way on the side of pathways.

Repeat Unit: 19.05m x 27.33cm Type: Straight Repeat

Concept

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School Picnic Students enjoying in the gardens reminded me of the days when we were brought here for picnic.

Repeat Unit: 29.06cm x 19.69cm Type: Half Drop

Concept

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Mapping Prints on Products

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The Life Blooms

Canvas Tote Bag

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Weathered Walkways

Cotton Shirt

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Infinite Stairway

Printed Backpack 51

Linen Set 52

Secluded

Wallpaper 53

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Follow the Bouganvillea

Summer Flare Dress 55

School Picnic

Utility Pouch 56

Colourways

The Life Blooms Original Pattern

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Infinite Stairway Original Pattern

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Secluded Original Pattern

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Follow the Bouganvillea Original Pattern

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School Picnic Original Pattern

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Weathered Walkways

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FIN.

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