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For some reason, almost every professor decided this week would be a good week to make projects be due!  For Arts and Politics I had a midterm essay, for writing a 5 page paper, and for Visual Thinking I have a big project due!  Good news is that I turned in the midterm essay today and my 5 page paper is already done!  All I have left is my Visual Thinking project which I enjoy doing anyways!  I'm actually excited to start that project.  It is the one I talked about earlier that is inspired by Romare Bearden.  I'll hopefully be able to put up pictures of my designs when I'm done!  I love fashion drawing and I still can't believe that I get to draw clothing for a grade.  Last week in class we got to share our ideas with other people in our class.  So many of the students are so talented and it's really nice to be able to see what other people come up with.  I can't wait to see the final collection designs on Thursday!

Donation

So last Friday in fashion we had a very busy day.  We started off cutting fabric to work on muslin samples. We cut out three types of collars and put together two of them on mini shirts. We have to design 10 for homework, along with a collar quiz and cutting more fabric, as well as making a slash pocket that we designed ourselves.  The fabric that we are cutting is for two baby shirts.  One of the shirts gets to be donated to the children's hospital!  I think donating them is a great way to mix charity with class work.

In visual thinking we took a tour of the history of fashion design!  To do so, we looked through huge books that showed us all types of silhouettes.  We have to take some of these shapes and consider them for our collection that we are drawing out.  I can't wait until the project is done, only because I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with!

And one last thing, here is a cute website for handmade gifts!
www.thelongthread.com

fashion update

Finished my first garment of the semester in fashion design on Friday! It's a simple top, but I'm happy with it!  I learned a lot of techniques in the process of making it, such as understitching and making button loops.  Our next big project is a knit dress, but in the meantime we our designing our own slash pocket (trust me, way more complicated than it sounds) and on Friday we will be making a child's shirt which we will donate to the children's hospital!  (and also one to keep for ourselves)

For drawing, I spent three hours in Shaffer (art building) sitting in the hallway drawing one-point perspective.  Putting in the time really paid off.  If you rush through your assignment, chances are you won't get the best outcome.  It was actually really relaxing being able to take my time and concentrate on drawing.  Better than doing math homework!  Another thing that I do for drawing is keep a sketchbook and draw in it every day.  Some of the other students were complaining, but you can really have a lot of fun with it!  Check out this website with examples of sketchbooks from all over the world; http://www.urbansketchers.com/

Also, I had to make a twitter for my Time Arts class.  I was pretty against it at first, but now that I joined and started to 'follow' a bunch of my favorite designers, I'm finding it really interesting, especially with updates on fashion week.  Nicole Miller just tweeted about getting in all of her shoes for the show!  Speaking of designers, I'm trying to find an internship with one for the summer.  I think it would be such a great experience and a great thing to put on my resume.

With every fashion class I have had this semester, I really cannot wait to become a designer!  My dream job would be to own a boutique in Bucktown in Chicago!  Wish me luck!

First Fashion Post!

Hello.  My name is Talia.  I am currently a freshman at Syracuse, and my major is fashion design.  I am from Cleveland, Ohio.  I chose Syracuse because it is a great choice for a fashion major.  I get education in all the fields of design including: drawing, 3 dimensional arts, 2 dimensional arts, and time arts, as well as education outside of the arts fields.  I think that it is important to have knowledge in subjects other than just fashion, so coming here allows me to also take academic classes and gives me a chance to have a minor in business. 

Second semester started 2 weeks ago and so far I am really enjoying my classes, more than last semester.  I feel like I have a much better handle on how to manage my work.  I do not procrastinate!  My favorite class this semester is Visual Thinking.  In this class I learn about how to draw clothing onto a model and how to create a mood board.  It is all about finding an inspiration.  This is really what I have always wanted to do, so this class really interests me a lot and really involves creativity.  Art is what I love to do more than anything, so being in classes that involve art motivates me to work hard.

For my first visual thinking assignment I chose Romare Bearden as my inspiration.  I will be designing about 6 clothing designs based off of his Carribean inspired paintings.  Here is an example of his work:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Z%2BGfpw6uL._SL160_AA160_.jpg
The project won't be finished until the end of February, but I will update you on my progress!