Final designs in context

Here are my 6 Final Wallpaper Designs put into the contexts I imagine them to work best in. I hope you see a really link between each design and how it could become a small collection if it went into production. I really enjoyed the process of creating these design and exploring the possibilities within contemporary wallpapers. I can see all my designs working as feature walls. My designs are fairly full on compared to what is currently out in the industry, which is why I think consumers would have my wallpapers on one wall of a room, rather than all over. It is also becoming increasingly popular to  have 1 feature wall and the rest of the room painted in a colour from the wallpaper.   

This design has always been a strong success out of my digital designs. I think the colours within it work really effectively and work much better at this larger scale seen below. The use of the white background allows the design to not be 'too' much a repeat. I had previously added a background colour which worked well as one repeat but once put into full repeat, became too much for a wallpaper. 

This perspex final piece is a personal favourite of mine. I love the bright, bold colours which actually work really well within a kitchen environment. I feel kitchens are usually the place where consumers become more restricted and feel they have to be 'practical' and safe with the style of kitchen they had. I think this design highlights how you can really easily brighten up and allow more creativity into a room which is usually fairly bland. Introducing pattern into cabinets doors and using splashes of colour to make the room appear for playful and fun. I was thinking about how this could work in industry and how I could tailor each designs to the customers preference. I could offer a more bespoke designing service where the consumer could choose the colours, type of pattern and scale used within the design. 

I believe this colour combination below works really effectively, complementing each other as well as contrasting well. The room setting I chose to set it in also improves the overall look of the piece. The tan leather sofa complements in colours within the wallpaper and actually brings them out slightly more. I can use lots of plants and natural elements being used within the room, with my wallpaper in. I like the idea of having my more contemporary designs, alongside organic plants and greenery.

I also love this design and the continuation of the design onto the drawers. I thought about introduce other interior products such a cushions and even storage cabinets, which would use the same design as the wallpaper. This is something I haven't seen done before and maybe a possible gap in the market. 

Target market

I always had in mind the possibly consumer who may actually want my wallpapers in their houses. I was thinking of someone quirky and someone who has the confidence to be a bit more out-there in regards to their style and appearance. I thought of two celebrities who I could see my work being used in their homes. Fearne Cotton is quirky women, who is known for her slightly quirky style and who dare to be a bit different. Cotton 33, who as recently become a mum and started up her little family with Jesse Wood, appeals to me as a likely client who, (if this was ever possible) may be interested my my work. Fearne herself, has a very unique style and I can imagine the style continues within her house. I imagine her interior to be bright and contrasting, with old and new furniture working together. Having also just started a family and beginning to create a real family home, I believe she would have a funky and inventive set up in her house. 

FAB DAY OF PRINTING

Today I experienced a very successful day of printing. I started the day a little anxious about whether or not there would be space in the print room. Due to me being on placement, meant I couldn't book far enough ahead for space on a table. I had been checking every day, nearly three times a day, for the last week to see if there was any available space and today I timed it well! I wanted to take full advantage of this rare time and space on a table and set myself an aim to complete over 10 samples of development. I decided to use Opaque Binder and Pigment dyes to form the paste for my samples. Having used these dyes before and achieving really great results from them, I thought they would work really effectively with what I intended to do. I loved the strong, vibrant colours you could create by using the pigment dyes. Although I haven't stuck to a very concise colour scheme, I did choose and make my colours carefully, reflecting on my drawings and the colours used within them. I wanted them to be bright, fun and most of all playful. The pigment dyes also produce a very flat colour, something I thought would work really well with my mark-making drawings.My screens I had prepared where enlarged snippets of my drawings. I wanted the screens to be strong bold but child-like, to reflect the nature of this project and the enjoyment I have had doing it. I also wanted to play with layering, colour combinations and variation of material. 

Here I worked back onto my stitch samples done at Trident Cars. I wanted to use them within my work in some way, as they seemed to plain and bland without a splash of colour on them. I think this worked really effectively on my samples and was an interesting surface to print onto.

I think the colour combination of the orange and blue and the layering of two works really well. I choose to experiment on different card types and brought a selection to play around with, below I used the Brown Eco card. I also printed digitally onto the card to test how the colours and textures would work together.

It was really interesting to see how much lighter the binder dried, compared to how dark it appeared in paste form. I loved watching the colour change throughout the drying process and was pleased with the dried colour being this bright, exciting blue.

Below I printed onto a failed printing job I did last week. The printer failed to print properly and only printed a 3rd of the repeat. Instead of throwing this away I decided to use it to print onto, having a gradient digital image at the top of the design.

The colours in the piece below seem much darker due to them still being wet. This just shows how much they change in colour once dried. I think the fact they are printed onto paper makes the colour become stronger and more vivid.

Here is another sample done onto a Trident Cars sample. I really liked the quilted background and how the pattern avoids the stitched lines, allowing them to stand out more.

I think this print below works well as the red becomes a very vivid.

I loved the effect of layering patterns on top of patterns. The subtle colour from the brown background also works effectively, managing to tone down the colours of the print.

In my sketchbook I formed a little collection newsprint papers. I really liked the left over marks and textures created from the excess print.

Here is the evidence of my productive morning.  I was also very determined to complete a lot in my day and worked solidly to complete my collection of development prints.

I also printed onto an A3 sheet of perspex I brought. I was excited to see how the paste worked on a plastic and whether the colour remained strong.

I loved this vibrant green I achieved and how it worked against the other colours.

Here is my first layer on the perspex. I found the colour does remain strong and appeared very successful against the opal finish plastic.

I also experimented onto a darker brown perspex, just to see if the colours stood out, and if a darker background worked. I did like the contrast in colour between the orange and brown, however I did not feel the brown would work as a successful repeat.

Below I printed onto a background I sewn into. I think the vivid blue background, with the bold orange and red blend looks very effective together.

I love this combination of colours and how flat the different colours are.

Here I made up another paste, similar to the green, but with a slight hint more of blue thrown in. I wanted to achieve some of the colour used in my prints and initial drawings.

Here I worked onto some wallpaper samples I order, to play around with different papers, colours and textures. I think the texture green and white background works great with the bold red in the foreground.

Here I played around with blending the pastes together, while still allowing the separate colours to be my flat and bold.

Here is another wallpaper sample I printed onto. I like this grid-like pattern against the subtle grey paper.

I also printed onto some smaller perspex samples, experimenting with different colours. This very dramatic colour combination is very strong and works so effectively with two bold primary colours.

Again some more fun newsprints with interesting patterns left from printing.

Here you can see the development of my perspex piece. I love the effect the opal surface gives the entire print.

These smaller samples are done using my favourite method of transfer printing. The colour within the print, really stands out against the clear plastic when held in front of white or natural light.

I love this colourful sample below and the layering of colour.

This pattern looks really successful against this piece of perspex. The opal background allows each bright colour to come out and even makes them more vivid and almost glow.  I would love for these to be made in ceramic tiles as I feel this would work really well in a funky kitchen or bathroom.

Here is a sample which did not work very well. I tried to add sections of my digitals designs into this print. One stripe worked and I really loved the effect it created, however due to this background being a wallpaper sample, the magic touch and paper just stuck together. This was a shame as I believe this sample would have looked really great if it had all worked. I have now learnt that this combination of materials does not work.

This is another sample I did, which again did not work, however I did scan this into photoshop and correct the magic touch areas which failed to come off.

I like this left over pieces of magic touch, as some of them had print marks from the papers, which then printed onto magic touch. I thought they left really interesting marks and patterns.