Options for projects include working to design briefs, learning about 'Florence' (and the process of digital print onto natural fibre fabrics), helping us tackle various jobs around the studio and working
on projects that recycle our scrap fabric. We love the way that each person we
invite to be part of our team, brings with them their own interpretation of how
these projects might look and we wanted to share with you some of the results.
The very talented Leanza Tang joined us for a couple of
months last year. Leanza was in the final stages of
completing a BA in Textile Design at RMIT - majoring in Weave, Leanza chose to take on design
briefs to create some new “basics” for our textile design library (more on that soon!). We love her
use of layers, textures and colour combinations.
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Fabric swatches of the range Leanza created for our Textile Design Library (more on that soon!). |
To see some of Leanza’s stunning woven creations that she has been working on this year
The super lovely Charlotte Campbell spent her time very
patiently working on a recycled fabric project with some stunning results. The
brief for Charlotte’s project was that she could use any of the offcuts of
fabric around the studio but they had to be used in a way that made any
printing unrecognisable. Using a mixture of different techniques from spinning
to knitting and sewing, Charlotte came up with several items, all of them
unique and beautifully hand made.
Amy Lawrence came to Frankie and Swiss from Kangan Institute
where she is studying Applied Fashion Design & Technology. With an interest
in Fashion illustration and an amazing talent for biro illustration, Amy got to
work on a series of artworks to be used as placement prints and included in our
Textile design library.
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Amazing illustrations by Amy all done in ball point pen illustrations (really!) |
Biro Bowie! Another of Amy's illustrations printed on to 100% Linen to create a very cool tea towel. |
We are always impressed by the amazing talent and beautiful individuality expressed as each
of these creatives took a brief and brought their own interpretation to the
project. How lucky are we to have so many amazingly talented people coming to
spend time with us and add to the creative energy here in the Frankie and Swiss
studio?
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