From pattern to application

During the assignment from pattern to application from SintLucas, the assignment was to develop a graphic pattern and translate it into a spatial object.

I had the idea to make a pattern with a texture from nature. I looked up different textures from nature and then created a word web.

In my word web I wrote down the words land, sea and air. These words come to mind when I think of nature. With these words I have written a texture from nature and a natural problem. I will further investigate these textures and problems to eventually arrive at my starting points for my pattern.

I continued to elaborate on the concepts of land, sea and air. For land, I had the design principles: drought, tortoiseshell, organic, sustainable and natural. At sea I had the design principles: plastic soup, octopus, dynamic, sustainable and organic. Finally, I had the design principles for air: air pollution, insect eye, chaotic, sustainable and sleek.

After making the design principles, I made mood boards for all three ideas.

From the mood boards I made a quick sketch for each mood board.

Land: Sea: Air:

After these sketches I started on the pattern. While making the patterns I found out that sea was the most interesting for me and I started working on it further.

Land:

Air:

Sea:

Final pattern:

The pattern was designed and the next step was the application.

My pattern has to do with the sea. Of course there are animals in that sea, but there is also something in it that does not belong there. That is a lot of plastic. That much plastic in the sea is called the plastic soup.

I would like to use this pattern on a beach collection. It provides some awareness that people should not leave their waste lying around everywhere.

With a beach collection, this awareness is not very far from the problem. If you're on the beach, you're right next to the problem.

With even more new beach equipment you only make the problem worse, but this beach line ensures that the problem becomes less.

The beach line has a special material for the products. The beach line consists of a bikini, towel, beach bag and slippers. The fabric of the bikini and towel is made up of old fishing nets that roamed the sea. Almost half of the plastic soup consists of fishing nets in which animals get entangled. The beach bag is made from PET bottles and the slippers from old car tires.

In this way, the plastic from the plastic soup is recycled and used for awareness.

The pattern also has cheerful colors that it can be used for a nice day at the beach. If you look longer at the pattern, you suddenly see that an animal is swimming around in a lot of plastic.

I had decided to further develop the bag from braided PET bottles.

The technology with the PET bottles did not work well. The zigzags crumpled very quickly. Instead of the net of PET bottles around the bag, I decided to make a macramé net from single-use plastic bags.