Big thanks to our friends: Ground-zero from UK and Jantine Van Peski from Belgium, allowing us to draw their outfits on big-size! Their outfits are so amazing! Here is the example drawings of their outfits on Fashionary templates drawn by our illustrator Vikki.
With basic drawing tools, pencils HB, 2B, 4B & 6B, Vikki drew on the super big fashion templates using the simple method, printing 10 A4 papers and make a super big Fashionary templates. It’s about 1:11 of original A5 Fashionary templates to super big templates!! More Jantine‘s collection “WIRES 10.0″ from her master degree at Antwerp Fashion Academy as below. Her work focus on silhouette and craftsmanship with her great technique. And it’s super cool!
Ground-zero was established in 2003 by the talented duo brothers, Eri and Philip chu. Unique graphic print is their icon.They create outfits with moods, thoughts and attitude. Our team love this chinese blue floral vase dress very much and we spent around 8 hours to sketch the beautiful floral prints in details.
Below is ground-zero CHINATOWN SS12 collection.
Another big thanks to Kinokuniya, Sydney! Three big posters are featured on their window display and we raised up a question in the middle poster: Do you sketch faster when using the Fashionary templates?
The result can be viewed online. According record from 10 Apr, 98.78% people say YES and find they sketch faster with their Fashionary! To poll now, please go here.
In short: fast, simple and flexible. But how can we have this idea?
Do it in a mood board way
Unlike graphic designers who work mainly on the computer, or interior designers who need to live with large sketchpads. Fashion designers need the flexibility for sketching different outfits. We like to use mood boards with the ability to mix and match idea, visual element and concept.
We do many researches of the working style of different designers around the world. Many of them use paper or sketchbook and then cut out the sketch and stick them on their working areas.
A good idea is sticky, and so do your sketches.
When things are grouped together, the idea is very clear: A media that can stick to different places and the designers can sketch in the same proportion and size instantly. And the answer is something we are using everyday — post it memo pad with Fashionary templates.
So we start researching on the optimum size.
The perfect size
We decide to use 1/3 of an A4 paper for the size of the memo sheet. You can see, it fit nicely on the A4 paper and which is very easy for filing and storage.
Flat Drawing Templates redesigned
We asked different designers around the world to test the technical templates and it has been changed more than 20 times from our original idea.
The new one, which focuses on individual items, is much more user friendly for production drawing. And give the designer a much better view of the actual garment.
Spec Sheet on the back
We place the spec sheet for the top or bottom outfits on the back cardboard of the memo pad for easy photocopying :)
Stick them everywhere!
Enjoy :)
After a year, we would like to continue our illustrator series :)
Below are the illustrators we loved the most over the past year. If you missed our series, here is PART 1, PART 2.
Kathryn Elyse Rodgers is currently working as an apparel designer for Reebok in Boston. She is a passionate, creative thinker and excited about her future and present. I love her way in expression the details of outfits so much, it’s interesting and full of texture!
George Stavrinos was an amazing artist who sketched those fabulous Bergdorf’s ads in the New York Times. I found the realism of his fashion figures refreshing. Sadly, the great Stavrinos passed away in 1990 at the young age of 42 due to complications from pneumonia.
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High Fashion in 8-bit
Inspired by the retro 8-bit graphic, we mixed the pixel with the Fashionary templates
to create various pieces we love the most :)
Prints are available for purchase, details please see below.
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http://www.ffixxed.com
ffiXXed is a collaborative art and design project initiated by Australian artist/designers Kain Picken and Fiona Lau in Berlin, February 2008. Beside making fashion collection, Fiona and Kain are very active in art exhibition world-wide. Today, we are glad to invite this sweet couple to share the experience with us :)
Where did the name ffiXXed come from?
We didn’t really think about it that much to be honest. Someone mentioned to us that it was related to the idea of not having a ‘fixed’ location for our project, which we like. There is also with the shift in the spelling a kind of reference to ideas or meaning not being so fixed.
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