Personal Statement

Creativity and designing has always interested me from a young age, but for the past couple of years I have been mainly been loving the interior design side. This started from Interior designers who I found through the blogging community like Erin Gates who is the founder of Erin Gates Design who adds like to all types of interiors making them modern yet traditional spaces whilst working to all budget sizes. I love that she can adapt any design to go with the client’s needs, though bringing in a modern but very attractive look.

I spend most my time working on the UAL Art and Design course and an online Interior design course, whilst keeping a blog based on fashion, beauty and lifestyle. I always keep my eyes open for unique and beautiful ideas which I can place into practice in the years to come. I have been writing a blog for three years now and have a reasonable audience size, when I have my own house I will start to include interior design projects and ideas.

I am very socialable, and organised, which will help me to run my own business linked to interior design. With the courses I am doing, they are helping me to understand planning, designing and layouts. I am motivated to do my best at everything I do and to grow my business to the best it can be, to do this I am looking in library’s, business and interior design book, blogs, and talking to self-employed businesses for any tips.

I have worked as a paper girl, in a café with apartments which I was required to clean and have had work experience at an Interior Design shop and a disability school which helped me to understand how business works and how much I like to keep busy and succeed. I am generally known for my positivity and taking opportunities which are given to me.

Since 2005 I’ve been part of Girl Guiding and have been chosen to take part in international events in Switzerland and Austria which have been great experiences to see the rest of the world, be a group leader, and i’m committed. I love to travel, I adore to see the world and I treasure the little things which most people take for granted. I mainly have a plan and I know exactly what I’m going to be doing but I also like to be spontaneous.

Project Proposal | FMP

Throughout this course I have been concentrating on fashion and clothing which I have been really enjoying. I have learned a lot whilst doing it like pattern cutting, designing, researching and sewing techniques, but in my last project before going onto my final major project I wanted to see how well I could do a project on an interior design so i could have a clear idea of what I wanted to do for my final project. I am glad I did this because I have learned that I am stronger in all areas of researching, designing and making in fashion. My last project wasn't my best as i wanted to learn lots of new techniques but i underestimated the amount of time this would take, so unfortunately ran out of time and the outcome was undeveloped in relation to what i originally wanted to make.
Section 2: Project Concept

UAL Awarding Body Level 3 Extended Diploma Project Proposal Doc.

I intend to design and produce a bag which fashion bloggers will love and style effectively. I will research current popular fashion bloggers who create fashion trends by pairing and styling different type pieces which would not normally go together. I am going to do this by reading their blog posts and asking fashion bloggers themselves what qualities they look for when buying a bag. I will also research into what bags are on the market already along with the styles which work well. By doing this I will be able to design a bag which will be unique but meets the needs of on trend fashion enthusiasts. I am going to take a lot of my inspiration from Pinterest as this shows a lot of unique and different ideas all in one places where I can produce new and adventurous designs. I have decided to use leather as my chosen material because it is associated with elegance, and expensive, as fashion bloggers do not mind paying more for high end items if they are keeping up with current trends and the items are well made. I am going to research high end designers to take inspiration from and help me to design the best possible bag. Im going to present my bag on a mannequin so you can see the feel for the look i am trying to achieve, along with three final presentation boards, one being a mood board with all my initial ideas and the others are my final boards with my professional studio photos and shoot photos which will be in the style of fashion bloggers, which will all be recorded on my blog.

Section 3: Evaluation

So i can keep on track, i am going to write and stay closely to a journal and a weekly planner to ensure i do not fall behind and so i can make sure i do everything i need to do in the right order, to make my project the best it can be. I am going to work closely with my peer review buddy and having 1 to 1’s with my tutor to ensure that i am going in the right direction and to see if i can improve in any areas of my work.

Blogger Style Photoshoot

Blogger Style

Bloggers have a very distinctive style. A minimal, with limited colours seem to very popular with monochrome shades and basic colours like greys and beige. Having a minimal outfit, means you can have more of a patterned bag. After doing my research i did find that leather bags are most popular as they are generally high end and well made so they tend to be more expensive which means they are more special to keep and style. I realised that leather bags which were already on the market weren't patterned or unique they were more basic so thats why i went for more of a different style fabric.

Leather Handbags

For my final major project i wanted to try something different to my usual clothing path, I have chosen to make a leather hand bag which will be designed and styled by bloggers (Myself being one of them which will then be posted on my own personal blog). I wanted to make my bag out of leather because its currently in the fashion trends, especially having high end companies like Chanel on the market. I did a lot of research to find and experiment, so when it came to designing, i could come up with a high end, functional and a classic handbag, relating back to my research.
I created my own board on Pinterest as well which was really useful when designing!

When looking at high end design which were already on the market i saw that geometric shapes were very popular and gave that minimalistic feel which is what i wanted to base my handbag on. I looked in to this further and found that i wanted to go down this route as being a blogger myself, i know that they love unique shapes as they are great to jazz up a minimal outfit.

When it came to designing i had so many options of the shapes and colours, but after a lot problem solving and deciding what would be best i decided to go for a prism with a different type of leather other than plain black.

The leather has molten drops over, as i wanted to make my bag look high end, this also fits the price tag of the leather too at £100 a meter.
Making the mock up of my design was very helpful as it made sure that when it came to doing the final piece it ran a lot smoother.
To go along with my bag i decided to make a coin purse which would relate to the shape, hence the pointed unboxed corners. it really compliments each other too.