Spreading the Love

Trying to organize house a little bit; I've been spending a fair amount of time recently in the Coroflot & Pinterest worlds.  Curious?  Swing by and give these links a click!

Hackafore's Coroflot page is filled with design projects from past & present: http://www.coroflot.com/hackafore

and I'll be darned if Pinterest hasn't been the neatest thing to come along!  Distilled research and inspiration all in one convenient location: http://pinterest.com/hackafore/

That's it for now, enjoy the long weekend!

Sehr technisch

Part of production is getting tech-packs set up.  They help illuminate all the mysteries hidden in the garment flats -- answering questions like, "Exactly how long IS the center front?" and "Where should be be placing all these awesome textile prints?!"  Welp, here's a little breakdown:

Important to begin at the beginning!  This is the basic garment flat.

Labeling those ever-important design details

Specs!  Get 'yer specs here!  Can't tell day from night without your specs!

Oooo, the colors!

Can't forget those textile swatches

Woah dude, you can't label me!

And that's that.  Obviously a couple more pages involved, but jeeze louise, can't be giving out all the secrets!

Fresh coats of paint

In the middle of refurbishing my Senior Collection portfolio.  Updating both the flats and croquis -- trying to provide some more detail and information to the garments.  Here are the first couple looks:

More to come!

Shootin photos

A friend contacted me recently about putting my senior collection in a photo shoot.  There's a new fashion magazine about to begin publishing here in SF, and they were looking for a hip military theme for the first issue.  Here are a couple of the photos:

Politburo peacoat & Ronehn baseball T

Omega Red blazer & Alexi pants

Bilibin blazer & Kapron collared shirt

Photos by Melvin Harper.  Shoot produced by Alexandra Thurmond.  Thanks everyone!

Nightmares

Doing some portfolio work, and wanted to get some extra practice in on technical flats and performance wear.  So, I decided to do a little basketball collection based on my UCSF rec league team -- the Nightmares.  A little co-branding with adidas to add that layer of authenticity, and here we go!

Inspiration 

Logo variations

Home uniform

Aways

Throw-back thirds

Development page

Hieros' J720 Safari Jacket

During the construction of a jacket, tailors will often mark the back side of the fabric to ensure the correct sides face outwards.  While working on a green waxed cotton safari jacket for the brand Hieros, it occurred to me to mark the wrong-side with quotations from the Illiad.  

Here is the face-side with completed pockets:

Front right

 Front left

Back

 Right sleeve

Left sleeve

Front

Back

Finishing the jacket -- closing the lining and top-stitching the hem & cuffs

The owner liked the idea of chalking the interior, and suggested I come up with a hang-tag pointing this design detail out to customers.  Here's what I came up with.  It doesn't list ALL the quotes, but that version of the tags came out looking very cluttered.

Umber & Ochre Ts

Working to expand my graphic design experience -- here are some of the graphic Ts I've been developing for Umber & Ochre's Spring/Summer '13 line.  Enjoy!

Party Flavors!

Doing some graphic design for Hackafore's new Fall Collection!  

 Updated fonts and treatments inspired by Swedish DJ Avicii.

Graphic interpretation of the glorious city by the bay

 Trying to find a way to reconcile the digital Avicii and this brushstroke font.  I like them both but there's a big disconnect between them...hrmmm

Playing with some slogans as well.  What makes Hackafore clothes unique?  They're cumfortable!

;P

Textile print developed from a coffee ring and rolled cigarettes

Mondrian-inspired graphic.  

This layout is taken from a map of the Alamo Square section of San Fran

Plaids!  The second from the left on the top row is developed from the roof of the Mission Dolores.  The fourth is from a gift my roommate got me from his trip to Japan.  The two on the left of the second row are taken from the Sligo Tartan -- the part of Ireland my family is from.  The last two are reinterpretations of the above Mondrian design.

Finally, playing with fonts to use on the ever-in-development Hackafore website