art addict / fashion enthusiast
On Monday we had a group tutorial with Clare and Alkesh. We discussed the theme of our publication and the plan we had so far. We were trying to find if we can come up with a narrower topic. And after the tutorial we also rethink about our choice of paper and binding. From our …
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After having a brief plan for our publication, I then started to plan the photoshoot for my own work. As my work is focusing more on using fashion/clothing to communicate different ideas and moods, the photoshoot is actually important for me to visualize the feeling and concept I want to convey. For this collection, as …
Today we brought our ideas of how to connect and pair up for the collaboration pages. We started with putting down everyone's connection on a huge mind map, and try to find the most suitable, exciting ones. It is so much clearer to see all the ideas when we started to put them down, it …
On Tuesday we had a workshop with Clare and Julian, all of our group members have brought quite some interesting layout and had a discussion in the session. We all agree that before we decide on the layout, we want to have a clear direction of what is the topic of our publication, why are …
Today we launched the last project "Launch." We are required to group with 4-6 people and create a publication together. The process of finding group went quite well; Ciccy, Rika, Kaelan, Mengdi, Yinan and me decided to group together last week and is ready to finish this last project together! We haven't linked everyone's work …
Today we had the critic with Kyunghwa, Nathan, Cato and Alex. It is an interesting combination and we got to hear feedback from all sorts of different opinions. This is one of my favorite critic so far because everyone's work is much more resolved, and thanks to the application process, we are all pretty familiar …
I was working on my portfolio recently, and was spending quite a lot of time figuring our how I want to position myself with my own practice in fashion. I had the conversation with David about how I can position my work between artwork and fashion piece but need to justify why I am doing …
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I didn't want to talk about too much personal things in my blogs but I started to find this inseparable from my projects and works. I has been a quite difficult time during this application period because all the document and portfolio we had to do is all about "who you are" "what do you …
Today we had a portfolio session with David in Kensington. David has looked through our portfolio without us talking, which is like how they look through portfolios for application. It has been a very helpful opportunity because he has never seen our work before and knew nothing about us, so our portfolio needs to be …
During my research on clothing and feminism, I came across this designer using her work to advocate powerful feminist messages. Her collection "Azaadi" fuses fashion with art, and the use of fabric and plaster also resonates my Artifact project, which trigger me to look deeper in her works to know more about her. "‘Azaadi’ is …
CHRISTINA TAI 