Mary, Mary quiet contrary, how does your garden grow?

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Developing the Final Design Boards

Adding Colour and Outline

Somethings missing - Not fully styled

Pearly accessories to finish off the designs and give an extra effect to the styling theme.

Visual CV

I have my interview coming up for Creative Practice (Top-up) and wanted to put my experience and skills in visual form, something a bit different that would make me stand out from other candidates.

I used Adobe Illustrator to create this, above are some snap shots from the process. I used photographs from the interent and photographs of my own work including quick facts and a picture of myself so I am memorable to the employer/interviewer.

Last But Not Least...

The last brief of the year has began, I can't believe how fast this year has gone.. It's literally been non stop!


Project 1 - AD201 Personal & Professional Development (12th May)
Project 2 - AD203 Art & Design Method (10th Nov)
Project 3 - AD202 Digital Applications (25th Jan)
Project 4 - AD208 Skills Development (16th Dec)
Project 5 - AD207 Work Based Project (21st May) Revised Hand in- (11TH MAY 9AM)
Project 6 - AD205 Art & Design Application (11th May)

NEW PROJECT


Project 7 - (AD206)


AD206 Negotiated Project (20 Credits)    Hand in date - Thursday 11th May 9am

• Research Imagery
• Contact Sheets
• Development Work
• 4xA3 Final Photographs
• 1000 Word Essay

So after a quiet organised and time managed start to the year, AD206 comes along..I knew it wouldn't be long until I was rushed off my feet. I think it seems worse because of all 4 projects are to be handed in over 2 days! AHHHHHHH!


Oh well lets get going...

''As long as you have a garden, you have a future, aslong as you have a future you are alive''

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 Initial Designs

 Initial Designs

Draping Styles

 Styling Ideas for Final line-ups

 Designing Cover-ups for Capsule Collection

More Design Development

Experimenting with colour

Final Flats with Fabric Swatches

''If you look the right way, you can see the whole world is a garden''

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Final Research Boards for Portfolio

A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene

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Organising all my research to create final boards.

Using my Fabric Sourcing File as a reference.

Fabric Board from one of my research pages.

Lily always likes to help out, by sitting right on top of all of my work!

17 Questions?

”To be prepared is half the victory”  

- Miguel De Cervantes

A large part of your success at job interviews comes down to the amount and type of preparation you do. In particular, preparing yourself for the types of questions you’re likely to be asked.

Below are 17 questions you must be able to answer prior to attending most types of interviews.

This is NOT a definitive guide to interview questions (there’s no such thing) – but instead a set of core questions that makes you go through a thought process before attending interviews.

If you can answer these questions for yourself, it allows you to answer most types of non-technical questions in most interviews (by non-technical, I mean questions not related specifically to your functional area – e.g. Sales, garment design, visual merchandising etc.

The 17 Questions:

Questions about your career choices and decisions

1. What made you enter xyz industry / profession? (Or if it’s your first role – “Why do you want to start a career in xyz?”)

2. What’s the biggest highlight of your career to date? Why was it a highlight?

3. What’s your biggest career mistake to date? What did you learn from this mistake?

4. Where do you see your career going in 3 years (…or 5 years, 10 years time?)

Questions about each of your roles

5. What made you take that particular role on?

6. What were your reasons for leaving that particular role?

7. What did you deliver in each of your roles? Can you quantify these achievements?

Questions about your redundancy (for people searching after a lay-off)

8. How many people in your team were laid off?

9. Why do you think you were one of the individuals selected for redundancy?

Questions about you

10. What type of work / roles have you enjoyed the most? What was it about them that you enjoyed?

11. What types of work / roles have frustrated you the most? What was it about them that was frustrating?

12. What are your key strengths? Can you provide me with a specific example to back each of them up?

13. What are your key weaknesses / development areas? What are you doing about them?

14. How would you describe your personality and working style?

About your application

15. What made you apply for this role / organisation?

16. Why do you feel you’d be suited to this role?

17. What’s unique about you? How are you different to all the other people we’re meeting?

Yes, there are many more questions that can be added to this list. And yes, you will rarely be asked all 17 questions – and rarely will they be phrased in the above language. But being able to answer the questions above prior to an interview enables you to apply those answers to most types of non-technical questions.

All you then need to do is adapt and tailor your answer to:

a) The actual question being asked of you and

b) The specific needs of the employers or recruiters sitting in front of you and you’re well on the way to separating yourself from the competition.

”To be prepared is half the victory” - Miguel De Cervantes

Fashion God

The Secret Garden

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Film Stills from the movie 'The Secret Garden'

I plan to take inspiration from the fairytale like story Frances Burnett describes within the novel, aswel as the fashion influences from around 1910.