Swapping Samples

Seeing as our project was about the 'community' and working together as a group producing work that reflected more than one persons culture-personality-thoughts; and blending different cultures. Swapping the samples was a fantastic idea, the outcomes were brilliant. The samples were unique to begin with- but in relation to each of our own projects. Swapping the samples allowed them to transcend the personal projects and become part of the 'community' project expressing more than one idea. The idea of taking someone else's personal sample (and therefore thoughts) and then finding a unique way to relate this already existing piece of fabric to our own projects is an interesting thought- actually if you think about it this exercise represents our entire project- in that we started off experimenting with existing fabrics to work with- using different companies and people ideas and working them into our ow projects. Waiting to see the samples added a scene of excitement to the who thing, we did not discuss to a full extent what we would be doing to each others work so when we all saw them after it was very cool seeing how they had changed.
I feel we should have done this earlier and more often because they turned out so well and tied the project together.

I personally swapped with two people; David and Beth. Their samples were beautiful and I did not want to alter them to an unrecognizable level- Also now focusing on pale washed colours (like the power blue) I felt it would be relevant but still not take away from their designs, to bleach the colour out of them.


David's Sample

Beth's Sample