This project is a competition, sponsored by the Federation of Manufacturing Opticians in Great Britain. The briefing was to design six glasses for men, women or children, either sunglasses or prescriptions.
My concept is a set of arms, screws and "frontspoilers" and the lenses, that can be mixed with each other. It gives the opportunity to the manufacturer to sell parts of glasses for a lower price to the costumer, but in the same time maybe sell more, because the customer wants to mix the parts and designs. The customer has freedom and flexibilty in the choice of design: With two sets of glasses one has already nine different ways to wear the glasses.
The concept is to offer different designs for different customers with different taste, personality and needs, prescriptions and sunglasses, with the same mechanism to mix and match them all.
The lenses are inspired by car headlights. The lenses are fixed by the screw thread in the arms and the screws from the other side, some have additionally the frontspoilers to connect the left lens with the right. Above some of the sketches and some of the lenses.
First Research for the colour project. I like the wild mix of colour but the triptychon still has a quiet and dark atmosphere.
Mixed glasses, mixed models. Suits everyone..!
Here are the six final designs, as they would come to the shops. The customer can buy either the complete set in one design, or mix or pimp with seperate parts, e.g. arms in another design, or buy extra sunglass lenses for the prescription glasses. Mood and inspiration for each design are different, with a certain focus on a materialmix, like wood, perspex, chromed brass, gold or horn.
Some of the final line up illustrations, with working drawings and fabric swatches. Photographs of the outfit will follow later after term vacation.
Fitting of the suit and the body, determining lenghts of sleeves and legs. On the right a snapshot from the shoulderparts of the corsage, in the beginning. I like the graphic effect of the fabric when layered.
Clash of materials, structure and touch: Latex, cotton organdy, fake-wood PVC, Rigilene boning, old cotton-covered buttons, silver-coated jersey, wax-coated black cotton, silk jerseys in pastel tones, mint green mousseline, white organza, PVC tape and more.
2D design development, illustrations and working drawings, with first combinations of fabric swatches.
Development of graphic (from round to linear), of robot silhouette and details (dirndl corsage, insect wing graphic in the shoulder construction). The latex body under the suit and the corsage is only half finished yet.
Some clippings of the sketchbook, research on fabrics, inspiration images and sketches. The focus is on the development of the robot silhouette as well as the graphic design on the transparent fabric by experimenting with traditional tailoring details and changing the position of seamings.
I used to work on walls and change images, swatches, sketches and samples directly on it. As there's not really space for that in the studio and it is becoming difficult as a student to show one's stuff, I gave that up soon and now stay with the sketchbooks and folders.
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