The Ballad Of...

Back in deepest darkest November i was feeling pretty unmovtivated, and as time goes on i found myself becoming more interested in textiles and fashion design rather than graphic design. I went in search on google for possible work experience at theatres, as i'd love to get into theatre production and costume design, and found a page about work experience at Channel 4.

expecting a page on vacancies for tea-makers and phone-answerers i was surprised to see information on a new magazine C4 are helping promote, called 'The Ballad Of...'
I emailed the girls organising it, and asked for more information and if i could get involved, they told me it was a magazine made by young creative talent, for young creative talent. I told them i was an illustrator who dabbled in textiles and they said as they have plenty of illustrators already, if i could do something with clothing that'd be great.

with the theme of 'Neauvau' i emailed back with ideas of clothing inspired by art deco and neauvau archetecture, listing designers who'd inspire me and what fabrics i'd use. they got really excited at my ideas and i set about sketching dresses.

so i emailed the ideas and they loved them, so now im in the process of making the dresses and they're getting me a model and photographer for a shoot i can style.

It's been fun having people believe in my work enough to reserve pages in their magazine for me, it feels like a big responsiblity and I hope the outcome is as good as i imagine it will be. I'm just grateful for the experience.

I'm also glad i decided to be pro-active in my Graphics-slump, rather than sit here and get nothing done.