Working on :: issey miyake

This is where most of my energy has been expended over the last week. This is assignment #2 for uni, which is due in 2 weeks, and it seems an extraordinary amount of work for the marks and time frame allowed… am I sounding grumpy? We have to produce an invite, catalogue and promotional gift for a showcase of some of Issey Miyake’s more elaborate clothes. We have 16 pieces we have to include in the catalogue and really up until today I’ve been solely focused on the invite. You can see my first and latest attempts above and if you can imagine it –  the whole invite is pleated (origami style) so an A4 page becomes about the size of a Penguin novel. I’m attempting to reproduce his art of pleating for which he’s so well known. The bottom image is two pages from the catalogue and I’ve had lots of fun creating repeating patterns (you know how I love them) and it’s even given me inspiration for my next screencast. Watch this space sometime after June 10 when my marketing exam is done and dusted.

It really doesn’t hurt that I’m a big fan of Issey Miyake and have been ever since I convinced my mother to make me this highly complicated shirt from one of his Vogue patterns circa 1984. Also this project is making me incredibly nostalgic for Japan and I even had to think back on my high school shodo (calligraphy) classed to write his name using Illustrator. It’s clearly written by a foreigner! So again friends if you have any insight to share in the form of constructive criticism I’ll be forever grateful.