I took part in a stand-work workshop and found it very useful for generating design structure ideas. I was asked to cut out 6 shapes inspired by my research and a large circle to fit them around to ensure that I could create a 3D form form from these shapes.
I used blobby, organic shapes inspired by the silhouettes of my illustrations of homeless people. I chose these shapes as I had already explored putting them on the body earlier in my project, and saw this as an excellent opportunity to to develop this idea further.
I had to fit all of the shapes together at the seams, to make sure that they created volume. I found that this technique helped me to discover some very unusual 3D shapes that I could not have possibly thought of when designing in 2D. I noticed that the basic essence of the sleeping bag shape was coming through in my stand work, but looked a lot more refined that my intitail sleeping bag designs, which was exactly what I wanted.
To develop designs, I did lots of rough sketches from my stand work. I worked very quickly in pen as I wanted my designs to be raw, imperfect and instinctive. I then selected my favourite designs from these rough sketches (there were 7 of them), and drew them out again a lot more neatly and thinking about how they would be structured if they were a real garment. I did some backs as well to show how I would imagine the back structure and the placing of the zip to put the garment on and take it off. My favourite design out of these is the last one, which is the one that I want to develop further.
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