Cotton In The Curriculum 2020 Honorable Mention Award Winner for delivering a collection that exhibited a high level of quality and creativity through textile design.
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Illusioned is my collection of woven, knit, and digitally printed cotton textile fabrics made to furnish a unique, modern living space. Influenced by the striking visual shapes and effects of Op art, I have endeavored to create a living space that is entirely dedicated to exemplify the wondrous and arousing visual effects of optical illusions. In the living space I have designed, a consumer would find themselves in a room not only designed for them to live comfortably in, but they will be immersed in a room that is an illusionary art experience.
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In this collection, I have designed woven upholstery fabric for a couch, chair, lampshade, and a rug. I have designed knit fabrics for throw pillows, as well as digital prints for wallpaper and a wall tapestry. Inspired by painting, collage and other hand processes typically seen in op art, each weaving in my collection is handwoven on a tapestry frame loom. Given the grid-like structure of weaving and knitting, this collection showcases that textiles are uniquely suited to explore optical effects and vivid, vibrating patterns.
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In the image above you can see the different textile fabrics that I developed and where they would be placed within the room that I rendered using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
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