Design work

After doing all my research I started to draw from my photos, creating designs that I felt would work well in a repeat. I used the patterns and shapes from my photos of buildings, putting different parts together which created a varoque style design.
However, I felt that my images were too harsh therefore I decided to look into Rococo and include elements of this. Because Rococo is more delicate I felt this gave my designs more of a balance and more to look at.
I also wanted to include some floral designs into my work as I know floral designs are very popular in interior wallpaper design. From looking at my photos I picked elements and shapes of flowers to include on my designs.
When designing I wanted to make sure I made all my work have a modern feel about as looking over the brief it states that Digitex want to see a modern collection.

After doing this I felt I had enough design work to use and pick 8 designs that I thought would work best in an interior image. I wanted to pick a variety of designs that I thought would work well as a collection however each one having something different about it.

After picking my final designs my next step was picking a colour way. I started doing some research into what sort of colours were in this year and what trends were starting. I found that the colour 'emerald' was the 2013 colour. Thinking that this is a modern collection I wanted this to be my main colour because its the next new colour. I then picked 3 other colours that I felt contrasted well with emerald - purple, coral red and duck egg blue/grey.

Now having picked my colours I scanned my images onto photoshop and started playing around with colours, making sure I had a background colour which contrasted well with my design colour. I found that when I put the design into repeat the colour showed a lot better as you had a better view of what it was going to look like as a repeated pattern. I found that putting my images into repeat was quite exciting because it allowed you to see what your design could look like on wallpaper or in an interior image.

Once I had chosen my colours and style of repeat I printed my designs off to scale to see if the size would look alright on a wall and see what the colour looked like. I found that after printing off my designs in repeat my designs looked a bit flat. Therefore I decided to look at the gradient and see if I could perhaps make some of the colours on my designs go from being dark to light (blending out in colour). After playing around with this I found that it made my designs look much more interesting and would stand out as a design.