Pick Me Up exhibition at Somerset House- week 5

I also went to the "Pick Me Up" exhibition at somerset house featuring top emerging illustrators and designers as well as more established names in graphic arts.

Being interested in illustration in particular, I thought this would be something quite useful for me, but there actually didn't seem like there was a lot of work exhibited as it was mainly set up for people to attend the different workshops.

Some of the artwork was a bit irrelevant to my project and wasn't the sort of style I was interested in. However upstairs there was lots of different workshops set up but unfortunately the ones that I would have liked to have tried weren't opporating on that day. 

One of the workshops was screen printed, this was a process that I really wanted to try and that might have helped with accomplishing my task of experimenting with different methods of fabric printing. However it cost £9 to print on one bag and I didn't really think this was worth the money. Nonetheless it was really interesting to see the equipment used for this process and the outcomes it could produce.

I really liked how the white typography on this bag worked against the black background, this is quite similar to one of my designs with a mainly black composition and hint of bright colour. This was originally a piece that I wasn't sure about and didn't like as much when printed on fabric however the success of this composition increased my confidence in my design.

I also liked the look of these detailed illustrative prints on the t-shirts they were selling as some featured one main illustration and some prints were composed of repeats of various smaller images.

In one of the shops there was also this selection of painted mugs/pottery. I actually really liked how this process looked; printing my designs on pottery is perhaps another area of homeware design I could have addressed if I had more time with this project.

These printed stickers also looked quite bold and quirky if I had more time I could have maybe designed some stickers to go with and advertise my collection of prints for Ted Baker.

Although typography is not usually the area I am most interested in or good at, I really liked these colourful pieces by Alan Kitching. I particularly liked the almost spontaneous looking merging of colours that happened whilst using the letterpress and the layering of letters slightly relates to my process of layering images to create the different designs in my project.