Sustainability

For one this new brief that I am currently doing in college involves researching sustainable materials, architecture, cars, furnitures and other things. I have found some artist/designers that use sustainable materials.

Alyce Santoro is a multi media conceptual and a sound artist. She has a background in marine biology and scientific illustration. She wanted to make art about science but for her the problem is that your not really allowed to get excited about the mystical part because it's not scientific. She works with recycled material and environmental themes runs through her work. She created the sonic fabric which is made out of audio tape and handwoven together.

What is Sonic Fabric?

SONIC FABRIC, the invention of sound and conceptual artist Alyce Santoro,

is a beautiful, audible, versatile textile woven from 50% polyester thread and 50% audiocassette tape recorded with intricate collages of sound. The sound compositions themselves are a kind of sonic fabric too – strange andintricate music made by weaving together unlikely combinations of looped and layered samples of found, created, and collected sounds.

SONIC FABRIC was originally intended for solely for use in installation

artworks based on the notion, common to both Buddhism and quantum physics, that at the most basic level, everything in the universe may consist of little more than vibration.

How is sonic fabric woven?


Individual cassette tapes have also been used to weave smaller batches of
yardage, some of which was hand loomed at a craft cooperative for Tibetan women
refugees in Nepal. I also use individual tapes for smaller projects, including
the collection of sound samples.

I will update you all if I find any more sustainable design, designer or artist.

Applying the Golden Ration.

As most of you might know I have been learning about the golden ratio in college, well this is how I would apply it to a garment. I focused on just placing the shapes that I have created using golden ration on one side of the mannequin. I also made 3D shape so that it's not too flat when looking at the detail. Here is what I've created from this lesson.

Continuing with Golden Ratio.

Today was the continuation of the golden ratio lesson that we had as a group yesterday. Today was a little more interesting because we got to design and create something using the golden ratio. I have experimented with scale to create different effect on the model. Here is what I have created using the golden ratio method.

Oliver Tolentino, "Valentino of the Philippines"

When Oliver Tolentino opened a Los Angeles boutique in 2009, he became the first Philippines-based fashion designer to expand into the United States. Dubbed the Valentino of the Philippines, Oliver has designed gowns for many well-known figures in his native country, including former First Lady Imelda Marcos.

Over the past five years, he has made his name both nationally and internationally, designing for prominent celebrities such as Arnel Pineda, lead singer of Journey. Internationally, Oliver designs for the biggest names in the Philippines, and won first place at Bali Fashion Week 2008 for a Carnivale parade outfit.

In October 2009, he presented a 40 piece collection based on eco-friendly materials, such as pineapple fiber, which he recently presented again in EcoChic Geneva, an eco-friendly fashion show held in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Golden Ratio......

Yesterday on my functional maths lesson in college I learnt for the first time about golden ratio. At first it was really confusing and hard to understand what the golden ration was. Golden ratio, also known as the divine proportion, golden mean, or golden section, is a ration or proportion defined by the number/Greek symbol PHI (PHI = 1.618033988749895...). You can find the golden ration anywhere, in nature, art, our body, architecture, photography ect. Here are some examples.

My Summer Holiday.

I know that this is probably a little late now but I just to show you the photos that I took while I was in London. I've been to London many times so it wasn't new to me. I love going to london in the summer because of the weather. The places that I've visited includes London eye, london sealife aquarium, big ben, buckingham palace, Kensington palace, westfield shopping centre and many more. These are a few of the photos that I have taken on my visit.

I hope you all like it. See you next time. ^_^

First day in college.

Yesterday was my first day in college. I was really excited because I get to see all my friends again in college. It felt like yesterday that I was on my first year in college I cannot believe that I am on my second year and soon to be a University student.

We received our new brief yesterday and I am really excited about it. The brief is called 'Design Principle in art and design', it's about how form relates to function, sustainability and design principle not only in fashion but also in architectures, cars, furnitures and other things.

The first thing that I have to do is to research what are the design principles, what is meant by it and research into sustainable designs. I have also looked at ethical, recycled and organic fabric.

I am looking forward for this new brief and I can actually feel that I am back in college.