dye class: digital prints!
May. 1st, 2013 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I posted a few of my dye class students' print projects a while back, traditional methods like block prints and screen prints. They also have the option to do a digital print, and several of them elected to give that a shot as well. Here are a couple of prints which their designers have elected to make public. (Two more students did digital prints but are not making them publically accessible yet because of further tweaking.)
Second-year graduate Leah Pelz created a stark black-and-white print of somewhat humanoid, somewhat insectoid inkblots in a half-brick repeat. Lean will be printing it on cotton-silk to make a skirt or dress at some point.
First-year graduate Colleen Dobson's print came about in a really amusing way. In fall semester, she took Costume History with professor Jade Bettin. Jade came to class one day wearing this shirt from Anthropologie:

...covered in pointing gloved fingers. From her seat in the classroom, Colleen thought the print was instead a design of tiny vacuum cleaners. Because of this misunderstanding, when she chose what to do for her digital print, she designed to make the mistakenly-parsed vacuum cleaner print a reality! So, now it exists on Spoonflower. Colleen has printed it on cotton jersey to make a copy of Jade's shirt that she liked so much, but in a vacuum version.
Fun stuff!
In other news, would you like to work with us at Playmakers Repertory Company? Our wardrobe supervisor of three years has decided to make the next step in her career and move on to new digs, so we've got a job opening!
Second-year graduate Leah Pelz created a stark black-and-white print of somewhat humanoid, somewhat insectoid inkblots in a half-brick repeat. Lean will be printing it on cotton-silk to make a skirt or dress at some point.
First-year graduate Colleen Dobson's print came about in a really amusing way. In fall semester, she took Costume History with professor Jade Bettin. Jade came to class one day wearing this shirt from Anthropologie:

...covered in pointing gloved fingers. From her seat in the classroom, Colleen thought the print was instead a design of tiny vacuum cleaners. Because of this misunderstanding, when she chose what to do for her digital print, she designed to make the mistakenly-parsed vacuum cleaner print a reality! So, now it exists on Spoonflower. Colleen has printed it on cotton jersey to make a copy of Jade's shirt that she liked so much, but in a vacuum version.
Fun stuff!
In other news, would you like to work with us at Playmakers Repertory Company? Our wardrobe supervisor of three years has decided to make the next step in her career and move on to new digs, so we've got a job opening!