I have found this beautiful wallpaper design by 'Mr Perswall'. I love the combination of the Alphabet with the animal illustrations. The use of scale is great and something i'm going to take in account when i actually start to design and construct my wallpaper collections :)

I have started to incorporate my animal designs along side my buildings, i love the combination of the two and want to get my point across of the animals being in the City :) as if they are rooming the streets of New York!  I'm doing this partly so i do not loose the essence of the theme which is New York Central park, i dont really want my collection to look just like random animal designs i want to keep the New York Zoo element :)

I have come up with the idea of incorporating architecture into my Central Park Zoo theme but unlike last semesters architectural drawings that were quiet realistic and technical iam designing buildings that are naive and child like to accompany my animal drawings... i have used collage and mixed media making the designs bright and fun :) 

I love bunting and wanted to incorporate it in my design work, so i have started to produce a design sheet with Aztec and animal design's on the bunting... i am loving the result and cannot wait to complete it :)  

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I have been doing my market research into the Zoo/ Animal theme and Aztec patterns whilst doing so i found a designer called 'Modern Mindy' who has recently designed products for a  kid's Tribal Tea Party. I like the rustic feel of this designers tribal theme, it captures nature with it's earthy tones. She has also like myself mixed tribal/ aztec patterns with animals.Here are a few photo's of Modern Mindy's Tribal Tea Party......

Hi Guy's !
It has been a while but i have been getting really busy and my design sheets are coming along nicely. My Zoo project is really coming together. I have developed my idea's further and i'm now incorporating Aztec patterns into  my art work. The Aztec patterns really compliment my Zoo theme :) Here are some design sheets i have been working on......

This design sheet shows the colour pallette i have chosen to use. Some of my chosen colours being mustard yellow, grey, purple, green and cherry red. The colours are bold and bright, perfect for a kid's interior also being suitable for either a boy of girls interior.

 

Here are the entrances to both of the Zoo's, both being very differnt in style, Central Park Zoo entrance being traditional in style and the Bronx Zoo entrance much more contemporary.

 

 

 

 

                                Here are some photo's of the beautiful animals at each of the Zoo's....

 

Here is a drawing of a giraffe i did using mixed media...Iam pleased with the outcome of this realistic drawing but i have also started to experiment with drawing animals in a much more simplier form which i think will also look great and fit with the theme of Kid's Interior just as well. :)

 

This is a drawing i did of a baby giraffe using mixed media in the style of

Hi Guys!

My ideas's have developed so much since last time i blogged! Whilst researching into New York signs i came across these realy cute signs which lead me to Central Park Zoo in NYC!

I have been researching onto the Zoo and iam excited about all the ideas that i have brewing :) This idea is a perfect companion to my architectural collection...at the moment iam thinking my architectural, All American collection is aimed at 12 years plus and my Zoo collection for younger children. I have started to draw and design from my Central Park Zoo research and whilst doing so came across another Zoo in America which is bigger and has more animlas, this being Bronx Zoo!

American Dollars!!

I thinking of incorporating American Dollar imagery  into my design work...i may use the imagery to collage with  along with the american maps, i think the two will look great together ...this collection is definatly going to be  "All American!" :)

Tommorow im going  to spend the day cracking on with my design sheets and putting all my ideas onto paper... it will be a busy day :)

Blogg soon x

Im going to incorporate maps of America into my next design work, the colours and details are great and are fab to collage with. Im also going to experimant by adding my own design work into the shape of the american map :) Im excited to put my ideas into practice!

Hiya guy's....im finally back into Uni mode and loving it! Im still very passionate about my New York theme but im broadening my theme so im able to look at other areas of America other than just New York, this way i will have far more things to inspire my design work. Here is a line drawing i did of a New York taxi cab and Taxi sign...it is nearly finished i just need to add the black and white squares to the Taxi motif then it will look truly American :)

Due to me changing my proposal in this semester and not only working from New York inspired research  im thinking of changing  the title of my collection to "Stars & Stripe's" as this title does not restrict my design work and ables me to research the whole of America!