Before I head off on a tangent talking about padding breast cups and matching seams, I should start at the beginning, a very good place to start.
Having been given the brief for Woollen Mermaids at the end of last semester, I could have spent the entire summer on the beach researching first hand the type of swimwear people wear today. Only I didn’t, I jumped on a plane and spent my summer playing in the snow. The only swimwear I saw all summer were those in vintage markets around Europe. This factor influenced my designing for this project heavily.
I chose to focus my attention on the ‘tailoring’ of the swimsuits. The dart placement, the shape of the breast cup, panel lines and seam. I began to look at shapes within the suit and not at the suit itself.
I found this short film by Chuck Jones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmSbdvzbOzY
I figured if Chuck Jones can make a 10 minute film about a dot, a line and a squiggle, then I should be able to make a collection of swimsuits based on the same idea….
Hi Maxine,
The use of Chuck Jones short film (The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics) was great. Did you know that it won the 1965 Academy Award for Animated Short Films.
Dean
No idea. Hopefully my swimsuit will be of the same standard!
Hi Maxine
I love this film – although I feel much angst for Squiggle – hairy, coarse, mispronouncing his ‘L’s discarded for the very talented Line. Turning the suit inside out may yet unravel some ‘anarchy and sloth’.