Evaluation

     After feedback with Juliana it was great to hear that she could see how well we have all worked as a group from our collaborative work but also through our individual sketchbooks. Within her feedback she expressed how well we had all worked with the same theme throughout and our research was very clear within every group member. We were very pleased to hear that she chose our group as the winners allowing us to further develop our designs into a reality; through her help we have decided to produce a bag/backpack design using both found fabrics and our own textiles.

I think the strength of our group work is really high since we have all got on really well together and hope to continue to collaborate in the future. This unit has been really helpful to us all to learn how the other works and to take certain elements from fashion or textiles to use in our own personal developments next year. I hope that in our final year I can design some samples for one of the fashion students to potentially use in their collection since I think this would be a great experience for each of us. What I most admired about my group was that everyone naturally found their role within the project from start to finish and took initiative when it was necessary. I believe there was no weak link and would highly commend every member of the group. An improvement we could have made would have been within the group file and pdf; to reconsider the quantities of each peoples work within these documents. I think we could have had more of a balance of each person’s work to better represent our progress.

In terms of personal development I think I have realised that I am definitely a textiles designer as opposed to a fashion designer, but have thoroughly enjoyed learning about how the fashion students work. Since I design for fashion it has been a great insight for me to see how my fabrics would work within a collection and I plan to definitely use this information in the future. The difference between textiles and fashion is bigger than I thought and are definitely different in terms of feedback. I feel as though sometimes the textiles tutors can be too nice about their feedback so having harsher and potentially more truthful feedback has been very helpful. Since I know that once I work in industry there will be times when this happens, I’m glad I am being prepared for it now through the fashion tutors feedback. In terms of weaving I don’t feel like I have pushed myself technically but due to the time constraints I knew this wouldn’t have progressed much anyway. However I think my use of colour has continued to improve throughout the unit. Experimenting with colours has been very important to me since I started university. Through collaborating we ended up with a colour palette I normally wouldn’t have picked myself which has been a great challenge for me to see how I coped with it.

Overall I have thoroughly enjoyed this unit and am very excited at the prospect of continuing to work with my group next year. I have made great friends and strong connections and couldn’t have selected a better group to work with.