Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Melanie Bowels

After recently undertaking copious amounts of research for my Monograph on the implications digital print has on the creativity of practitioners, i came across Melanie Bowels work. Melanie is a designer, researcher writer and lecturer at chelsea college of art and design, who's work explores new concepts for digital textile design, the collection that particularly inspires me is her digital craft collection called 'digital shibori' which i have attached in the link below.

i like how she has translated these traditional techniques into digital print, using a similar process to my own, but what is most inspiring is how there is not actually any traditional techniques used of the fabric, it is all done digitally with a traditional concept and narrative.





http://www.melaniebowles.co.uk/m_bowles/Digital_Craft.html