Pop Art on the go
This bag was made as a textiles project in my school. We had a simple design process and some people were finished in three lessons. I had thought of this design because I had drawn a circle on a page, and I remembered a drawing I had made once, and decided I wanted to make that as my bag design.
Experienced
This is not my first rodeo designing bags. I made this bag last year, inspired on my mum’s love for Japanese designs
INSPIRED BY IDEO HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN
Textiles Design Process
The design process for my drawstring bag was similar to IDEO’s Human-Centred Design Process.
Inspiration
The Brief
The brief was to create a drawstring bag with pop art design. My inspiration came from this geometry dash level. It is very gory but I find it interesting as it has a very vibrant image with a very strange or dark theme. I started my design by drawing a circle, and that reminded me of the characters in this level or “world”, and I went along with it. What I had made was only inspired by this, as there is no direct representation of my design in this level.
Ideation
Production plan
This would be started by me cutting out my design in paper. I would then overlay that on an equivalent coloured fabric and cut the fabric out. Then, using a sewing machine I would stitch it onto the bag fabric. I would then do folds to make it a bag shape and stitch them altogether. Then I used a string to make the drawstrings, and that would be the finished product.
Implementation
Creating the bag
Once I had finished my production plan, I had to make the bag itself. I chose the light blue fabric to contrast very well against the yellow of the face, and it looks very vibrant. I used the sewing machine to stitch around the circle, then I put the details on and stitched those on top of the original yellow circle. The most difficult part of this process was the mouth, as it had a lot of sharp turns. I made it like this, as I wanted to make it look like the original smiley face design, with the creases in his mouth to show his happiness. As you can see I made a small mistake in the eye, as there is a stitch going over the yellow part, as I had had some slight problems with controlling the machine.
Testing
The bag in action
I used it for some shopping, and it worked perfectly
Teacher’s Feedback
“Alexander joined my DT class quite late into the Autumn term, yet he managed to quickly interpret the design brief and designed and executed a successful drawstring bag with little intervention from me. The final outcome was produced to a very good standard using the sewing machine.
Alexander has demonstrated excellent independent work, he is focused and confident in his ideas.”
Research & Development
This was a project that had started before I joined the school, so I had to finish the bag in about half the time given to my peers doing this project.
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