Husnah Anwar Surface Design

I've been designing ideas for one of my final collections on Photoshop. I've been experimenting with putting colours in the background. I feel three of these colours work really well with the design. I've used large scale flowers in my designs as the flower painting are very detailed and would look really interesting on a dress or a top. Using black colour for the background in this design has made the design stand out which looks very interesting.

I find this dress very interesting as the large scale flowers work really well on the dress and I find the white border on the bottom of the dress makes the dress look interesting. The white background also works well with the beautiful flower prints and the colour are very bright. I find the combination of the black and white with bright floral's very eye catching and  interesting. I have also been experimenting with black backgrounds for my patterns.     

While doing my market research I had a look at Roberto Cavalli's dresses which are very eye catching. He uses large scale florals on the dresses which look interesting. I also like how Roberto Cavalli uses black as a background for his designs and the pattern placement has been done really well. For some of  my designs I've also used large scale flowers and would like expand this idea as I think it would work well with my detailed drawings and paintings.

I've got my designs digitally printed on to velvet and silk. I would like to experiment with devore printing on some of my samples to see the different effect it has on silk and velvet. The design looks different on silk as you can see detail but on velvet  the design looks light but has an interesting texture. I've beaded one of my sample's which looks really interesting and the beads have an interesting texture.

I've been working on developing ideas towards one of my final collections, I've been experimenting with scale and colour. I used large scale floral's  which work well as you can see the detail and it stand out but the designs which have small scale flowers they lose the quality and detaile. For one of my designs I've uses geometrics and lines and I think that looks very interesting. I would like to digitally print some of my designs and embellish on top. I would like to print on different types of fabric's to see what the design looks like.   I've applied my design on to a dress, I've used large scale floral's on some parts of the dress and small flowers' on some parts. I think large florals look more interesting as you can see the detail and I would like to experiment with large scale floral's more. The colours also work well together.

While doing research I came across floral trend forecast of 2015 on WGSN. These fabric's are digitally printed swatches which show a lot of details and look very interesting. The colours are also very vibrant and eye-catching. The composition of patterns is also laid out well .