Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Early Christmas present:)


I AM SOOO EXCITED ABOUT THIS ONE!!!!

Earlier this month I entered a competition and I opened my mail today only to find that I've been selected as a runner-up!(my design shown above:)

Its all so exciting as finally I plucked up the courage to get my work out there and not be scared to enter competitions coz I think I'm not good enough...

Its great to receive feedback and see my design featured on the tigerprint blog!!!

That said,I hope to be doing many many more new and exciting design-y things in the new year and look forward to meeting more design-y folk who exist in blogland:)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE...!

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

brooch#1




Finally managed to take apicture of "A" brooch that I made,I gifted a few off without taking pictures-lesson learnt!

Hope you like it..let me know what you think...very simple,clean,black and white with a little bit of banana fibre used for highlighted texture!!!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

ho!ho!ho!


With christmas around the corner I figured I needed to put myself in the spirit with some christmas card designs.

I've never really done any before,but I'm very happy with how these turned out.Inspired by christmas balls that seem to adorn my home year after year:)
Enjoy!

Monday, December 8, 2008

something blue and something new:)

Took some time to change the look of my blog title..Now that my blog has become part of my design life and I thought it might be a good idea to have a better design/better looking title header.
Hope you like it:)

Monday, December 1, 2008

dabbling in illustrator...


copyright 2008 tanya d'souza

Just some fun creating in illustrator...cushions perhaps...?????

Went to the design market yesterday...and ofcourse wanted to buy EVERYTHING!!!!!!
The stalls were fabulous as were the goodies up for sale....I in particular went to sneek peak at the ink and spindle stall...and WOW...the fabrics/products were soooo gorgeous to see and actually touch and feel in person....:)Awesome..!

The brooches mentioned earlier are still in the making....pictures to come soon...:)

Friday, November 28, 2008

MAKING...


Oh I'm enjoying my holidays so much that I forgot all about christmas thats around the corner.

It was our graduate show last night and I had a great time.Took some picutres of my display and will post them up soooooon with some more info. on the show.

In the mean time,I had deicided earlier to make brooches for all the lovely ladies in my life for a christmas present.
I printed onto some plain felt squares and had all these plans to cut them up and make pretty things out of them.
They are currently a work in progress and a couple of them turned out quite nice, though I might finish a few more before I take pictures and post them here....something for my readers to look forward too???:)

I hope everyone is as confused as me with our very melbourne-ish weather:)but I hope its a good weekend for all...

and oh- excitment excitment about the design market this sunday!yay!

Wednesday, November 26, 2008



some fresh summer prints.in fresh summer colours:)

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

UNFOLD




Oh dear I am sooooo delayed with posting this.Maybe because noone really reads my blog..so I din't think it was much good puttin it up here...
But anyway...

Presenting UNFOLD-this years graduating class of RMIT textile and screen print design courses' graduate exhibition...Yay!

Opening night is this thursday(details on invitation).
It will be a fantastic night and there is some really gorgeous art and design work on display.
Soooo...If you're free thursday night between 6pm-8pm..Do come along and celebrate some fantastic young design talent:)

Saturday, November 22, 2008

illustration...


copyright 2008 tanya d'souza

I've been meaning to do some fun stuff in illustrator for a while now...and finally I got the chance..I did this illustration for a funky girls tee...not sure what I'm doing with it yet tho!!!Enjoy!

Friday, November 21, 2008

last of the lot.


a deep magenta colourway..


printed background for the colourways..


Colours mixed and ready to go

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

EYE CANDY:)


with layer two printed as well.


The second sceeen.For layer two of the design.


The exposed screen.You can see the cut through line where the designs repats:)


The repeat length.It was a bit tricky to do because of such a tight registration,but satisfying nonetheless;)

Saturday, November 8, 2008

new pattern design:)

New print design.
This one will be a printed length shortly:)Very excited about this one.Any comments?like?don't like?anything more than welcome:)

Product development

For the first time I've actually made a few prototypes of cushions from my fabrics.Not sure what I'll be doing with them...sell them maybe?But then I don't know if people like what I'm doing and if anyone would actually buy my designs...
However I'm very happy with how these have turned out and might keep them for my SELF:)Do a little interior decorating for my home;)

Some more...















Colours all mixed and ready to go...

long over due!

Hey all !!!

Here are the long over due pictures of the print process;)















one of my screens with a few single motifs on it(for some placement printing)

screens,colours,spatulas,printy table,fabrics,MESS and more...;)Exciting!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

on the cutting table....


copyright 2008 tanya d'souza
Love..LOve..LOVE the colours.More cushions on the way with these fabrics!


copyright 2008 tanya d'souza

All lined up and ready to sew.I'm having tremendous fun mixing and match all my prints and creating patchwork type cushions.


copyright 2008 tanya d'souza

Not a very good picture,but the lighter green one is actually on silk.I looove how the print turned out and I think it looks great as a cushion.I'm waiting to finish the entire range of cushions so that I can take nice pictures of them all made up and arranged in a pretty way...

So do keep popping back to my blog(if there is anyone out there who reads it!)and you'll see some exciting things...I promise;)


Saturday, October 25, 2008

Newbies

copyright 2008 tanya dsouza

It feels good when you complete something you've been working on for a while...all those hours of designing,testing,printing,more printing,even more printing..and then finally you have...the fruit of your labour....
These are final prints for my second last project at uni...a collection of exclusive hand-printed textiles for interiors inspired by INDIA.

Its been a long an invlolved process with lots of learning and experimenting on the way..

I'm very happy with the final result.....

The fabrics will be made into lamps and some of it into cushions.I've also done a few prints to be stretched onto canvas...All prints are on 100% cotton on varying fabrics like cheese cloth,linen,duck and some linen/rayon blends.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Business - like


Now that I'm graduating...its time to start thiking of myself as a professional designer ahem!ahem!;)


So...I've designed my business preforma that I hope to carry out with throughout my design career...


Here is the final after a series of experimenting...I've tried to incorporate a stylish/sleek look that still has an organic feel to it..

I'm happy with it...any comments most welcome..:)


And yes..those screen print photos to follow soon...

SCREEN PRINT WOES:(

As much as I love the process I get so frustrated at time and even more when paying the price for someone else's mistake...hmmmpfff..

Today I planned to expose my screens..so..I hop into the exposure unit,do everything right,set my screen and artwork up,turn the vacuum on and shut the door BANG!turn the unit ON...

2 minutes later...the light goes off..so I hop in again and take my screen out and excitedly wash it off only to find that the the image wasn't fully exposed...AND GUESS WHY..."someone"changed the time on the unit to less that what it was meant to be and hence the partial exposure...

So...I had to re-strip,re-coat-re-expose..and phew!it worked(after I set the time right!)...what a relief..!!!

That said..I'm now ready to print!Wipee!oh-let's not forget colour matching and mixing...

Its going to be a long few hours....:)

Will bring in my camera next time and take pictures:)

Saturday, October 11, 2008

cushion!!!



I think I'm going to call the design on this fabric LOVABLE:)

I really like how this fabric looks as a little pillow and I think my baby cousins bedroom will be its happy home;)

I'm loving sewing cushions and plan to make up a few more in the coming weeks with some of my own printed fabrics!

I'm no expert on sewing yet but I'd like to make bigger cushions and experiment with different sizes..shapes....piping...etc.etc.

Saturday morning design


This morning I woke up and sudddenly realised I'm meant to be making a thankyou card to give someone tomorrow...

So sat down with illustrator and scanned some drawings and decided to have a go at doing some SIMPLE patterns with simple shapes/motifs.

At uni we'r always being told to explore complex textile design techniques and I've never really had the chance to do some "non-complex"yet effective textile design...And especially after seeing the simple gorgeous patterns of the likes of Kirin&Co. and Hollabee...I came up with this design for the card...

Hope you'll like it..Feedback-positive or negative..most welcome:)

Friday, October 10, 2008

just something little...


some inspirational imagery and design....

I was blog shopping yet again and my search led my to this fab. website...and this particular page..do check it out..
Also found some exquisite wallpaper...
The pillow that I mentioned before is Done!Turned out alright:)
Pictures will be taken and posted a.s.a.p

Thursday, October 9, 2008

and SEW It Seems;)


Yup,Its that time again whereI take to the sewing machine...I've said it before and I say it again..I am NOT yet a sewing person....However I seem to have connected with making cushions...and my next attemt will be using some of my own fabric that I printed digitally...How exciting..I've never really had anything made of my own designs..
Anyhow..I start this tomorrow..so praying it all goes well;)

Friday, September 26, 2008

Happily Encouraged:)


I'm so excited to be receiving commetns(at last!!)and that too from such famous blogspersons;)and talented designers!!Thank you all so much!
Anywayyy..I'm so excited that I'm putting up some pattern design I've done recently...very floral...and the best bit...I whipped them up in about a few hours time which for a beginner like me is pretty quick.
I entered these into the tiger print competition.But because I discovered tigerprint on the day of the competetion closing date...I don't think these hasty ones will get anywhere...However i'm on the look out for more competitions...they'r exciting:)!!




Thursday, September 25, 2008

blog surfer:)

oh how i love holidays!
I've been shopping around blogs for inspiration and I found this one through tigerprint:)
Dee beale....Definately worth a visit;)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

watch a space;)

Hi anyone who reads this blog:)
Day 2 of my spring break and I'm loving it...!Wipeee for holidays!
Watch this space people..(if your not already addicted to it!)
Tigerprint
That's all I'm going to say..so hop on now and enjoy a feast for your eyes:)

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Howdie!

Oh How!Oh How! do I get people to read my blog...!!!!!
Its funny...I so eagerly open up my blog every day and boohoo! no comments...!

Anywaaayyy..on the brighter side...its just two days till my uni closes for SPRING BREAK!whippeeee!!!
I look forward to spending my time wisely and doing lots of design work!!!!

Saturday, September 13, 2008

summer weather = summer prints:)


How good is todays sunshine!!!!!!yay!
Finally some good use for my tucked away shorts and tees;)
Anyway I woke up all excited to take pictures of my recent prints and I am very very happy with how they look...I can see them as printed lengths...and if anyone does read this blog I'd love your comments and feed back...

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Sneak peeek!

One other thing...If "anyone's"been reading my blog..you might remember some prints that I posted a while ago...
Well..I've completed printing my swatch book today and I'm waiting for the weekend when I can take some photos of them IN SUNLIGHT...and put them up on the blog..
I hope you like them...Also awaiting a digitally printed swatch which I will receive on Wednesday!

Little things in life!

Its funny how we hardly take notice of things around us.Like today for example....I was walking up the ramp to platform 2 at northmelbourne when suddenly!I saw this tree and these gorgeous little flowers and buds on it.
Sooo strange..I walk up that ramp EVERYDAY and I'v never noticed it before...Maybe because its spring and the tree has been dead all winter,but hey!that must mean I've been walking past it for the past thre springs!!!!!
Anyway...just thought I'd put up a picutre of a little branch that fell from the tree...very inspiration little piece of nature:)
Aaaannd I've certainly learnt to take a little more notice at my surroundings:)

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

one more....


not too sure what happened to the little missing bits...mmmm...!!nonetheless hope you get the idea...:)
and oh!please do comment...I usually feel shy to comment on blogs but I'd REALLY love feedback from some "actual people"other than my university teachers;)

Bits n pieces!


heylo everyone!

Hope the weekend was good...

I have mondays and tuesdays off from uni so I usually stay home and catch up on work.However yesterday I went in to access the print studio and got some printing done.Unfortunately I forgot to bring them back home so I have no pictures to put up.Buuuut.....What is a post without a picture???So I decided to put up some other pattern design that I did sometime ago...

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Feel the looooove!

To Dad with love
Homemade chocolate chip cake with frosting et all for tomorrows father's day lunch get-together!

Its been quite a productive saturday so far!
  • Cooking for tomorrows luncheon
  • Baking and decorating this cake
  • Making and taking pictures n posting the buttons
  • Sending out a few long overdue e-mails
  • Driving my sister to n back from work

PHEW!time for some lazing around and maybe a nice movie;)

Button love XoXo

I did manage to whip up these long over due buttons...And managed a little fancy layout too;)
The fabric is just offcuts from my printing that have been stashed away forever...put to gooood use with these little treasures don't you think!!!?!
I bought these self cover buttons from spotlight,but they were quite expensive about 5 bucks for only 6 of these little frames.Anynone know any place cheaper?coz I'd love to make all my fabric ends n odds into pretty buttons!

I can't wait to wear them as little brooches or even hair pins like in the picture!!

looks like someone's gonna get all dressed up for tomorrows father's day lunch:)

My first acutal sewing success(and attempt!!)



Meet mr.calico cushion!!My first actualy product cut and sewed all by myself!

I've always wanted to make cushions coz I looove the colour that they bring to a room...I also have stashes of my printed fabric that I've wanted to make into cushions for aaages..and NOW I CAN!yay!

P.S-notice my little fabric button in the corner??i loove little things..plan to get stuck into making somemore of these today..maybe while watching some tele!

hope everyone is having a good weekend and loving the weather!!!Hello Spring!

PRINTEY PRINT PRINT~


Testing a few different colourways for a 2 colour print for the CAPSID range.
I like the one on the far left,it looks just like my croquis and goes well with the other designs.
The prints are on 100% cotton voile.lovely sheer fabric.The print quality is not very good coz I used a spare screen to print the background colours as my screens were still being exposed.
Nonetheless I have a pretty good idea of what it will look like.Going to do some more (good ones)on monday!
(sorry about the very dodgy picutre...!I'll get better I'm sure...practise makes perfect!

Friday, September 5, 2008

My Space



I'm so obessed with this new blog that I'm constantly looking for things that I can post.

And just now looking around the study I realised BINGO!my study itself!

Ofcourse since I live at home its shared with the rest of the family but as you can see I RULE!!!

Also a little snippett of a "planner board"which I'm slowly turning into my personal inspiration corner;)


WoW!I actually FEEL so much more like a designer/artist/maker/creative person or whatever you like to call me...thank you blog!

Finally!


After clariifying copyright issues with my teacher at uni....Here is a first glimpse of my work..

Actual samples!YAY!

This one is a range designed for kids.Its a 3 colour print on some lovely white cotton/linen blend.
As part of my course I had to print a production run of 12(not very much).I was quite happy with how they turned out.
Haven't yet made it into anything,but I'm thinkin little pillows/cushions for kids maybe with a commercial printed back and cute little fabric buttons.

Oh I don't think I've mentioned it yet...I can't really sew!!yeh...yeh..!!I know...however I am learning and I can proudly say that I can make a cushion cover now!!!(with piping!)

Learning curves!

Seems like today is meant to be world learning day!!Well,atleast for me!!

First, I "learnt"that I had forgotten to bring in my pattern pieces for my sewing class!!D'oh!

Second,while washing out my screens the high pressure hose gave way and drenched me in water.What did I learn you may ask???I learnt that it is terribly haaard to fix it back when there is water gushing EVERYWHERE and its worse when your soaked!

Third and by far the most exciting!! I learnt how to make the title of my blog look all pretty!!YAY!bit of trial and error and I probably did it the long way while there could be a much quicker path to the same end.....!!!That said.. I am very happy with the look..but am still experimenting with more colour choices!!

Here's hoping it attracts some readers:)

Thursday, September 4, 2008

some more inspiration




Behold!The St.Mary's Cathedral,Sydney
I took this picture on our pilgrimage to World Youth Day in july this year.
I was stunned by the gorgeous interior of the cathedral.
As a strong catholic,the church inspired me so much spiritually and I feel like I almost owe a tribute to this Beautiful house of God.
DEFINATELY a pattern design inspired by St.Mary's.Not too sure when,but with my course and its demands I'm sure I'll have the right oppurtunity to design one!
Thats all the impulse posts for tonight!!!
NiteyNite everyone!

Oh!!! the new found JOY of blogging:)

Its 10.07 pm and I was just getting my stuff ready for uni tomorrow and look what I realised!!!!
I've been spending a lot of time at the library this week and this is my little(borrowed;) collection of some awesome textile design books...I personally can't get enough of them.
I can spend aaaaages at the library,miss classes and get totally lost in the wonderful surrounding of pages n pages of inspiration,knowledge and creativity.
I just HAD to take a picture and post it because I'm soooo excited about this new blog:)
Not sure if I have any readers as yet tho!sigh!Patience Tanya Patience!!!!

CAPSID

oooohhhh...bacteria,virus and microorganisms!!!!!
Believe it or not this formed by insipiration for a recent beach wear collection that I designed for a project at uni.
It worked soo well and I am very pleased with the outcome.
Will put some images of the designs up as soon as I can work out a way to protect my images...anyone got any ideas on howI can do this??????

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

holiday workshops at RMIT brunswick!!!!!!

yayyay!Its that time of the year!!!Holiday workshops at RMIT brunswick!!!!!!
Every year the Textile course at RMIT organises fundraiser workshops in the september school holidays...this year there are workshops in screen printing,felting,machine knitting&shibori. The brochure is HUUge to put up here so if anyone would like any info. please DO COMMENT and I am more than happy to give you days,dates,times.costs and other exciting info:)looking forward to some comments from you creative peeps out there...until next time.....