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Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Intro to Knit

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:06:16 +0000

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Intro to Knit

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 20:49:20 +0000

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Intro to Knit

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 09:06:09 +0000

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Avery Term 3

Wed, 25 May 2022 12:38:05 +0000

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Avery Term 3

Tue, 24 May 2022 23:02:16 +0000

I chose LCF because I have had a strong interest in design since I was a child. I was going to apply for Level 4 at the beginning, but after a in-depth communication with my friend who was a Level 3 student at […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Avery Term 3

Tue, 24 May 2022 19:37:14 +0000

This is the most challenging fabric I made in this project. I need to thread the wool through this brown paper, but it’s fragile and can tear easily. I had to be very careful as I threaded yarn through the holes […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Avery Term 3

Tue, 24 May 2022 18:05:39 +0000

i made some collages using elements from my research pages.

and then i used two of my favourite collages to make the colour story. (The first and the last collage)

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Avery Term 3

Tue, 24 May 2022 16:40:41 +0000

This was our first Draping class, and I had already made a fabric inspired by my current research during the holiday. Although this fabric is not a very delicate fabric with many elements, it is quite large, and […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Avery Term 3

Tue, 24 May 2022 00:38:57 +0000

I researched about a artist Jacqueline de Jong whose art works are related to violence. Her works are characterized by bright colors and thick black pencil lines to express themes, so I also used bright red and […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Avery Term 3

Tue, 24 May 2022 00:13:27 +0000

I went to the Alexander McQueen exhibition the day after Carlyn told us there was a exhibition going on.

As a student, it is difficult for me to understand how a renowned brand creates each ready-to-wear […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Avery Term 3

Fri, 06 May 2022 19:17:34 +0000

My chosen topic is Dream core, an aesthetic revolving around nostalgia images.

I chose this topic because the word “unlovely” remind me of a childhood memory. When I was in primary school, one night I was pla […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Avery Term 3

Fri, 06 May 2022 18:26:55 +0000

Since we have learned how to draw CAD with AI in term 1, my memory of this software still exists, so the content of this session is not unfamiliar to me. Since we were not required to bring our work in the […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Avery Term 3

Fri, 06 May 2022 18:26:55 +0000

C¡NeCalav¡a (2020) Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964) Available at: https://twitter.com/cncalavia/status/1277319632496594946 (Accessed: 23 May,2022)

Dreamcore(2021)‘Dreamcore’ [Facebook] 26 March. Available at: h […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Avery Term 3

Fri, 06 May 2022 18:26:54 +0000

For the first page, i made a cover for this portfolio. It include several main elements of my topic, women in a red dress, dream core pictures and playground slides.

I did a few pages of moodboards about […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site IFS

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 01:10:11 +0000

In this class, we mainly put together the structure of clothes in the form of collage with the two customised shoes we drew in Visual Studio 1 and drew illustrations on this basis.

This step was familiar to me […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site IFS

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:45:44 +0000

In this session, we mainly learnt about how to classify brands and products.

At the beginning, I thought my strengths in this workshop is to classify the products, but as the class goes on, I found that I was […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site IFS

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 23:49:15 +0000

This session was focusing on using WSGN, a fashion forecasting website, to learn how to create mood boards and analyse the brands that we researched.

The key learning points of this workshop for me is how to […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site IFS

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 23:05:46 +0000

In this lesson, we mainly interviewed one of our peers and create a page of journalism.

My friends and I asked each other why we chose LCF，our fashion interest, what is our ambition, why we chose that artist t […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site IFS

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:55:22 +0000

This session is mainly about colouring our sketch.

We used Pantone Studio to take photos of our Mood board to create the colour story and then colour our Sketch according to the colour story. Since the colours […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site IFS

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:34:31 +0000

In this class, we learned about some media majors first, and then mainly took photos of our shoes.

I actually struggled for a long time with how to photograph it, and I didn’t want to photograph it in detail […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site IFS

Sun, 21 Nov 2021 23:58:24 +0000

The main content of this class is to extract shapes from the mood board about our research of the research artists prepared in advance for Design 1.

The artist I chose was lee Bul, a Korean artist. I saw her […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site IFS

Sun, 21 Nov 2021 22:22:25 +0000

Before this class, I already had a clear plan for my BA major and learned about all the BA courses I was interested in, so there were not many surprises in this survey. However, the Course […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site IFS

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 21:17:00 +0000

It’s cheering to see so much encouraging feedback from both tutors and my peers.For my presentation, the tutor commented that my customer profile shows a good selection of images and information that communicates […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site IFS

Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:18:16 +0000

This lesson is mainly about observation drawing.

I had drawn the human body in Berryman’s book before, but I needed to sketch a rough shape before I could draw a more accurate figure, and I rarely drew without […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Toolbox

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 22:30:13 +0000

This session is about writing press release.

This is my nightmare. I am a person who hates writing things. I am so bad at writing that I have died a lot of brain cells just writing a blog, let alone writing a […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Toolbox

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 21:56:21 +0000

Today’s session is about fashion photoshoot of our product.

I don’t have a lot of ideas about how to shoot my sunglasses, only a vague idea that I need to shoot bizarre and retro because my customers wear […]

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Sat, 16 Oct 2021 12:40:55 +0000

Today’s session is to draw the fashion item I designed for customers in the last session into illustrations.

I’m glad Giles approved my design. And he helped me a lot. I like to draw with very messy lines, […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Toolbox

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:40:53 +0000

Today’s session is mainly about designing a fashion item for my customer.

We have many options, but I think it’s pretty easy for me. I want to choose the design pathway, so I have to design an item instead of […]

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Tue, 12 Oct 2021 22:29:18 +0000

Today I learned how to make a Costumer profile.

We also had a preliminary study of Customer Profile in the previous class, but I finished it very slowly, and the layout was ugly too. Compared with this […]

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Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:21:51 +0000

Today, I just started my isolation, so this session mainly read the course slides by myself at home. I think this session is relatively easy to understand and smooth in the learning process, but I met some […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Toolbox

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 23:15:25 +0000

The day got off to a bad start. I took the wrong subway and then missed my stop. Fortunately, my friend signed in for me in time.

I had been to Brick Lane once before. It was a busy weekend, and on Wednesday, […]

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Thu, 07 Oct 2021 22:13:46 +0000

My friends and I chose the V&A Museum. I’ve been to many museums, and the collections are pretty much the same, so I didn’t read their history very carefully and spent most of my time painting.

After visiting […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Toolbox

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 21:02:08 +0000

In today’s session, we mainly made collages with the photos we took in the V&A museum last week and drew some sketches.

We should have printed the photos in advance, but I was sick the day before and couldn’t […]

Xinyue Zhang wrote a new post on the site Toolbox

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 16:43:48 +0000

What we learned in this session is about Fashion Media. I am actually interested in Fashion Media, and I like Styling very much, but I am not sure what to do when my partner Katy picks out a piece of black yarn […]

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Sun, 26 Sep 2021 15:11:49 +0000

In today’s session, I learned how to analyze the characteristics of many brands and stores and how to make a customer profile.

This will influence my future study to a certain extent. I hope to study fashion d […]

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Sat, 25 Sep 2021 23:48:42 +0000

This session is quite interesting cause I had never heard of “Unique Selling Point” before. This is my first step into the field of the fashion business.

I didn’t think USP would be so difficult to come up wit […]

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Sat, 18 Sep 2021 20:58:29 +0000

I’ve loved fashion design since I was a kid, but London wasn’t my first choice when I decided to study fashion. I originally planned to study fashion design in China, but after I learned about the styles and […]