My Presentation

For my presentation I decided to display my slogan in the background and show off some of my fabric samples that I have created along with my fashion designs and my final product.

Nuclear Symbol Print Jumpsuit

This is my finished product of my nuclear print jumpsuit, had I had more time I would have liked to tidy it up a bit but I am overall happy with what I managed to create. I cut out all the fabric patterns I needed and printed onto them before I sewed them together.

Antinuclear Fashion Designs

I knew that for my fashion designs I wanted to use my two samples that I made with my nuclear symbol print. I focused more on the orange/pink one as that was my favourite. I know I wanted to do something all over so I decided to go with a jumpsuit inspired by my research into 60s and 70s fashion. My designs where about applying the design to the jumpsuit and altering it in different ways to see how best it worked.

Backgrounds for Fashion Designs

For my fashion designs I created some backgrounds for them to go onto based on my ‘better active than radioactive slogan’

Nuclear Symbol Print Samples

For my nuclear print that I created I wanted to screen print a couple of samples with different colours. In the last group crit someone had mentioned that it was quite floral and I wanted to play on the idea of mixing that with nuclear associated colours to create a print that could possibly something someone would wear whilst protesting. I first did a layer of neon orange on one and neon green on the other and then slightly offset I did a layer of neon pink on both. I really love the orange and pink one, it was my favourite but I wanted to create designs with both samples.

I wanted to create a print based on the famous nuclear symbol but didn’t just want to repeat it, so I cut it out a few times out of black paper and started to rearrange the shapes that make it up until I found a print that I really liked. After I made this print I wanted to make it into a repeat print so my first attempt was to fill the page with print and then cut it up into four sections and swap them horizontally so it would repeat. However, this ended up leaving a lot of blank space that would have separated the print and stop it from repeating properly. To stop this from happening in my second attempt I filled the middle of the page, cut it vertically and swapped them, then I filled the middle and cut horizontally and swapped them then filled the rest. This meant that the edges where filled with print and they would line up correctly. Unfortunately this still have an issue as because it had to be so precise when repeating it, if you made a mistake it was very obvious. So for my third attempt I altered my second one by replacing the pieces that had been cut in half to full pieces so even if it was a bit off when lined up it would still have full pieces and wouldn’t matter.

‘Better Active Than Radioactive’ fabric samples

I used heat press paper to create shapes and backgrounds for my screen print of the phrase ‘better active than radioactive’. The colours where based on my Moodboard and research and the shapes where inspired by a collection Mary Quant had designed for Yves St Lawrence. Once I had heat pressed onto the fabric I screen printed on top with an acrylic-textile medium mix and I’m very happy with how they turned out.

Nuclear 60s Protests Moodboard

A mood board based on my theme for the 1960s antinuclear movement.