Collection of College work:

After looking back through some of my College and University work on my previous blogs, I have come across some stylised work that I think would reflect well with my idea of vintage and the uniqueness of design. I have been unable to locate my old textile sketchbook but I have managed to find this image of two of the pages. This picture was initially taken for my portfolio.

I have enlarged the picture to show more of the detail in the sketchbook. The inspiration for this was taken from an artist called Betty Petter and I have tried to recreate her style into my own designs and this is what I came up with. As you can see I have taken pages out of books (not my favourite's) and created shapes with the paper and used the natural materials and colours to recreate the background design. My favourite part of this is how the wire is incorporated into it, elegant little pieces that reflect the designers jewellery. 

This is an idea of how I would like my Boogazine background to look like. Very much like the clock designer, I want to make it unique and to give it this personal touch by maybe creating it by hand first and incorporating it in that way. I wouldn't have it as bold, probably change the transparency, so it doesn't take the viewers eye away from the article.

Here are two more images of textiles I have produced and these would also work well in the background design of the Boogazine.