I G U E S S.

over the summer all i seem to have done is take pictures. i guess its mindless really, alot have been of specific things like friends so i published them in other places but these four images arnt of anything specific. i guess i picked them cus im trying to find things i'll miss about somerset once i've moved to London in two weeks.

these are all taken at ollies house.

this is what ill miss.

E M P T Y H O U S E S.

Well, this is a photo shoot me and my friend rob decided to do about two weeks ago in an empty house in yeovil. to start with we wrote a whole concept to try and get the feeling for the shoot, somewhere to start. it was all about how to interact with a new space and how the space interacts with you. this, of course, is a load of bullshit so in the end i just decided to do loads of experiments with flash and stuff.

Rob was a great model and im proud to put these on my blog.

T O R O.

hanging the bull.

B U L L D A N C E

These are the first few sketches for my latest collection which, as of yet, has no name.

its inspired by the lengths humans will go to to be entertained.

i hope this gives you some brief taste of my work to come in the near future.

H I D D E N.

ROUGHS.

F A B R I C M A N I P U L A T I O N.

EYELETS.

Today i got inducted on the eyelet machine, this means i can work with an older idea of combining eyelets and ribbon to create a seam the wearer have control, tie it up where they want, undo it at a moments notice or take it appart easily to further manipulate the individual segment of the garment.

eyelets are really cheap but take a bit of time, i plan to grid large peices of fabris that i have manipulated of printed onto or infact made myself and then spend time shaping it around an object of model, tying the ribbon or whatever to hold it in place. i think i should look at old japanese armour and shamanic tribal ( temporary ) costumes. prehaps continue to research japanese textile artists as they seem to have the most interesting and inivatinve work.

U N S U R E.

NEW DESIGNS FOR TATTOO

Here are more desigs for the TUF tattoo.

They may look pretty similar but to me they are all subtle experiments in misrepresenting shape and shadow.

Drawing them and looking through a Marc Quinn book today have made me realise i shouldn't forget to draw all the time just because i'm worried about fabric manipulation or print.

The ones on top are biro and hte others are pencil.

OLIVER THAME.

T A T T O O

So Oliver Thame wants a tattoo? He wants a tattoo of a tooth? A human tooth?

no.

He wants a hybrid of human and animal tooth.

Oliver Thame, here is your tooth.

C U R R E N T P R O J E C T.

My current project is called " Hidden " and is my final major of this, my last year of college.

The idea behind Hidden was created when i saw an image of a spider up close and i realised how beautiful the markings on its back where. like, perfectly symetrical and lots of colours, dots lines and hairs. From this i realised that spiders remain mostly hidden to us, because of their size and because most people are quite scared of them, and i wanted to make their beauty more apparent.

They are such varsitile and varied creatures that can do such amazing things like produce silk that is so strong it can't be rivalled by humans, spine intricate webs using all sorts of techniques for different purposes and one even lives most of its life under water.

With this all in mind i started my research and primary design ideas and development into spiders and relating them to garment design.

Here are some of the images ive worked with so far

This in a print iv'e designed with the underwater spider in mind. The underwater spider lives ninty something percent of its life under water, using small bubbles of air it collects from the surface and attatches around its breathing organs to respire. it also creates a web that holds a huuuge ball of air so that it may stay under for some while. this print is inspired by that web nest under watet, today i paid £15 to print this onto asitate so that i can turn it into a screne for printing onto fabric.

i think it'd work best on a transparent plastic fabric with this minty hue.

This is a photo of a dead butterfly that my friend callum took and gave to me, i have sliced the segments of its wings out and laidi t on top of gold leaf. i like the idea of it being the spiders prey and making it a prize, i think ill use this and the two little dead bees i collected in a peice of jewelry for this collection.

These are both images of small sculptures i made out of wire and wrapped in cling film, they are supposed to look like little insects caught and bound in the spiders beautiful silk web. i scanned the sculptures in at a really high dpi and then inverted them ( the top two ) and gave them a monotone that corresponded with the colour of the hour glass shape on the belly of a female black widow spider. i think they are great to help me with garment contruction so i will be drawing and re configuring these images into designs, they may even work as jewelry too!

In personal news i found out today that i was offered a place at Kingston University to study fashion design! so im really pleased about that and i will get to work with my friends callum next year!

hopefully have more to post tomorrow.

au revoir.

W E L C O M E .

WELCOME..

To Sub - Structure designs.

I am Jacob W K B, a student of art and design foundation.

Late 2009 was the start of my career as a fashion designer.

Follow me and everything i work on on this blog.

This is a good image to start with because it was how i learnt the basics of film photography .

its a pin-hole image that i took in natural lighting and was left for three and half minutes.

i was interested in the relationship between the body we can see and structure that we can't.

remembering that when i look at someones face, i'm looking at someones skull.