Phalaenopsis Amabilis 1

The purpose of this project was to customize a design and create a contemporary evening dress for a client, a school donor, who was attending two University events: a university founder\u27s ball event, and a botanical garden orchid show entitled Fashion meets Botanical Garden. Furthermore, the aim of this project was to show and educate customers with respect to how unique customized design can be performed with the help of technology and to showcase how such new technologies can open up a continuously-expanding array of creative possibilities and spawn a complex new set of solutions for designers

Perspectives of Design Professionals in the Fashion Industry with respect to the Creative Design Process

The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives of design professionals in the fashion industry in terms of their creative processes, and the study was specifically focused on seeking the importance of knowledge and skills, product development, reflections-in-actions of the design process, the designer\u27s role in the system, and fashion as communication during a fashion designer\u27s creative process. The results of this study supports previous findings that fashion designers must meet the needs of customers and it is critical to understand design problems and solutions in order to design a successful product. The importance of designer perceptions with respect to how knowledge and skills, including product development and reflect in action design process, play a communication role in creative processes, as found in this study, will help entry level designers and future designers to understand the industry\u27s expectations

Perspective Rays

The purpose of design was to develop a sustainable design through the use of re-purposed and post-consumer materials inspired by an Op-art artist. The work of British painter and designer Bridget Riley was used as a source of inspiration; her work is generally known for being one of the foremost examples of Op-art. Her distinctive style of black-and-white optical art paintings uses simple geometrical shapes that include circles, squares, or stripes to establish intricate and repetitive patterns that create an appearance of movement as well as other optical illusions (Biography, 2016). Several pairs of post consumer khaki pants in two different hues with different sizes and shapes were hand-cut and sewn together to create a fabric surface for the top and the skirt