Group Meeting #2

Hey lovelies!! 

What a good day! Thank you girlies for all making the effort to get here so early today, has been a very productive day! But we have now got quite a bit to do this week, we really are going to get in claire good books haha. So in this email we have got all the notes from todays meeting and all the things we need to get done for tuesday 6th of mays meeting Curtain road. Please note it in your diaries those who couldn't make it today. I would just also like to say for the group a big thank you for letting us know you were not going to make it today Darbi really appreciated it. 

We now have started our group portfolio!! Woohoo its looking good and we now have a consumer, concept, colour and trend board. We also now have the a logo which is the start of our branding. Its looking great. You can find these on Pinterest. 

Please please Please can we get all of your work put up onto pinterest this is our focal point and we haven't got enough of everyones work to be able to get an idea of where every one is at. Plus this is where we are getting all of our research from for our group portfolio. By Tuesday we all need all of our research images uploaded, it is vital and inexcusable not to have it up.

Claire was really impressed with our work so far but did reinstate the fact that we are behind the schedule of work. So by tuesday we need: 

DESIGN WORK COMPLETE; Or minimum of your own personal range plan of 20 design and 20 FRONT and BACK flats/ technical drawings. Don't forget when your designing to make sure the front and back match up at the side. Design in 3Din your head as if its a product. 

SAMPLES; 4 samples minimum to support your designs. Try to keep in mind using up cycled “beads” in inanimate objects and also fabrics getting textures onto our sue ryder fabrics. I.E. Foiling (Sophie) that white texture in your design pages (vera) and what ever else you think of. Try to be creative and let loose.                        As an addition to the sample we are very much looking at fabric manipulation and claire noted we do not have to much textural research other that what people have already done so be sure to look at fabric manipulation books (go to Library) and also look at core sources such as corals and nuts which were suggested by claire. But as pointed out by everyone today they do not relate as such to the concept so try and find thing like this but linked in with your research. 

START TO THINK ABOUT FABRICS: We are going fabric shopping for samples on wednesday 7th of may (another date please note). So think about all the textures and weights you were thinking of so that we can come together with a plan of what were gong to look for on Wednesday. 

FINISHES AND TRIMMINGS: Make sure you think about this when designing and make a note of it for you own personal finishing and trimmings boards ready for claire next week. Claire is loving eyelets, buckles and belts with leather to home in on the constraints side of the concept. 

So thats 4 main points that have to be completed by tuesday. If you can not attend this meeting for any reason (if its not a justifiable one then you will receive a strike) you must must upload the work to pintrest 

What we are doing at our meeting on tuesday 6th may:

SELECTING OUR FINAL COLLECTION: It is vital for you to attend this meeting otherwise your work will be selected for you. We will then create flats for those to present to Sue Ryder on thursday as it is a requirement on claires list i sent you a photo of. 

GROUP PORTFOLIO: We will also put together a further 8 (AS A MINIMUM) group design portfolio pages. These will include all of our design development pages for our selected collection, plus a texture board and a trimmings and finishings board.  

Notes from todays Meeting are as follows: 

CONCEPT IN WORDS 

Our concept is based around Sue Ryders palliative care centres and the work they do, with mental health patients by giving them the best quality of life and relieving them from their everyday life boundaries. We also looked at the work they do with prisoners and how they reinstate them back in to society. Which gave us our concept Constraints and Freedom. 

SILHOUETTE

Our silhouette uses our concept of constraints in terms of suppression and freedom in terms of release. This creates an interesting and meaningful design. For inspiration and a coherent design selection. We are using our silhouette and trend board as inspirational images. 

New rule voted in by everyone: Failure to meet minnie deadline results in a new deadline made failure to meet both then results in a STRIKE. 

ATTENDANCE 

Myeong 

Vera

Sophie 

Jasmine 

Ellie 

Absence 

Katie (Given Strike1)

Darbi (Valid reason)

So don't forget 4 main points Complete design work and technical drawings, 4 samples Minimum, think about fabrics and don't forget those trimmings and finishings on your designs!!! Please make a note that next Tuesday 6th and wednesday 7th of may you are to be at the group meeting you have plenty of notice lets see if we can get full attendance!!! woohoo!! Have a good weekend and work your little bottoms off ladies haha excited to see what you come up with!!!