cover! it took awhile to upload the project, what with the holidays and my computer fritzing out (and the subsequent return trips to apple to fix stuff they broke during previous repair jobs) *angry fist shake*
ah well, ain't no thang. just "ride the tide"
credits page. the japanese says, "arigato gozaimasu okinawa no ama," which of course translates to "much thanks diving women from okinawa!" you might remember the top logo from a few years ago
mood board. can never have enough mood-setting!
customer profile. *dawwwwww* surfing really tuckers you out
look 1. stoked on the jacket. also features the sampled shirt from a few posts down
look 2. pleased to get the back pant patch rendered for this project. a little angular, but you get the jist
look 3. 3/4 sleeve poncho and the sampled cut-offs from the previous post
look 4. this one garnered some nice reactions from the girls in class. must be the hat
look 5. this was the first croquis i drew for the collection and it shows... of this look, the undershirt (with contrast sleeves!) is my fave
look 6. chock full of yes! the jacket...guh. and i'm working on making a pair of the jeans (probably in the chocolate/khaki bull denim left over from my denim jacket)
look 7. top to bottom pretty keen on this one. the leather jacket's the lone remaining piece of maori influence -- mimicking the protective skeletal shapes of the upper torso. the shorts are obviously selvage. obviously
look 8. i was excited about this jacket -- which features the enoshima mon -- but the fabric photoshoping came out a bit too choppy. and those pants...had to zoom in on the texture with mixed results
look 9. ponchos! there were a half dozen poncho designs, and this "little red riding hood" won out
look 10. features a full-on happi, which naturally makes me happy. pretty keen on the 3/4 undershirt as well
look 11. this one came out a little...too "castro"
look 12. solid.
back page featuring the mon logo from enoshima sushi
hooray! done! now to ship the project off for summer internship aps...
2 comments:
For some reason I never got to put one and one together and realize that all your recent work had been going into this Okianos collection *d'oh*
Ah the customer profile really put together what mood you were getting at for me. I like how this surf-y collection is just as creative and fun as your previous Western themed stuff. To my eye the colors/patterns in these are a lot more boldly presented and sometimes a little bit of controlled disharmony, but I can totally see that aesthetic appealing to the surfer dude muse!
(That being said I still have to protest the mixing of plaid with almost any other strong patterning, as in look 12. Great pieces but together it's a little too intense of a party in my eyeballs).
Ponchos, huh? A bold move indeed. I really like the idea of printing an entire scene on it instead of patterning, for some reason it feels more....dude-ly since prints can feel sort of feminine a lot of the time (the psychology behind this statement eludes me). Dig how the red hood looks sort of "templar knight" as well! Way to battle those waves, noble sirs.
The happi. Is great.
Rad logos and dig design #7. Cool stuff mate.
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