Our Anthropologie Mural Collaboration

Final Design Details

2009-03-13T07:57:00.000-07:00

Rough Design Review Slideshow

2009-02-27T14:46:00.000-08:00

The Design Process

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Once the Corps groups decided on the poses for the design, we began cutting out the figures and playing with scale, masking, and patterns. We began by choosing patterns in nature and from existing Anthropologie clothing, and incorporating them into the figure. Some figures even had two or three separate patterns and we as a group had to choose the one we liked overall. Then each student began designing the space around the figure, once again incorporating these found patterns.

The process was so detail oriented and meticulous that in the end, the design photoshop file, consisted of close to 100 layers and was 500MB in size!

Design Photoshoot Images

2009-02-03T20:04:00.000-08:00

Once we decided to photographs ourselves, we began looking through fashion magazines and art book for poses that we could use as inspiration. For the next week and a half the two classes would hold photoshoots, and leave the images to inspire the next class. The thumbnails below are our best images from the shoots.

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Initial Design Meeting

2009-01-19T14:57:00.000-08:00

On January 7th, Missy Peltz and her team from Anthropologie paid our Corps class a visit to discuss ideas for our murals theme. Both Corps classes were on hand to contribute as well. The process was very democratic, after we made a list of our ideas, everyone got to vote on the 5 they felt was most important. The themes with the most votes became our focus. In the end the mural's design would

relate to fashion/Anthropologie aesthetic
reflect creativity
make the ordinary extraordinary
come from a youth perspective
be vibrant and colorful
be multilayered
incorporate photography
be largely figurative

Here is a slideshow of imagery from the afternoon