Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques
Influences
A course by Giselle Manzano Ramírez , Designer and Artist
Joined December 2019
Joined December 2019
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I will talk about some of the designers and artists that have influenced my work and how they cross the boundaries between art, design, and fashion. ”
In this video lesson Giselle Manzano Ramírez addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques. Combine innovative reverse dye techniques with unconventional objects to create unique, sustainable garments in your own personal style.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Influences Now that you know a bit about me, in this lesson, I'll share with you some of my favorite influences. A big part of my work as a graphic designer is to research, convey meaning, and create a visual narrative. Many graphic design skills benefit a fashion designer. They are research, principles and elements of design, color psychology, and composition, among others. Fashion and graphic design can work in perfect synergy as a single process to give life to a universe made of shapes, colors, lines, and spaces. One of my favorite books is "The Designer's Dictionary of Color" by Sean...”
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Course summary for: Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques
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Category
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Areas
Fashion Design, Textile Design, Textile Dyeing, Upcycling
Giselle Manzano Ramírez
A course by Giselle Manzano Ramírez
Giselle Manzano Ramírez is a Colombian designer and artist based in Brooklyn. As a child, she was always creative, excelling in art at school and designing for friends and family from a young age. She went on to study graphic design and visual communication, and later fell in love with fashion in New York City. She then started redesigning her own clothes before going on to become a fashion stylist and curator.
Since then, Giselle has combined her love for both graphic design and fashion to design window displays, visual merchandising, lookbooks, branding, and advertising for vintage fashion boutiques. Through working with ReFashion Week 2020, she collaborated with the NYC Department of Sanitation and DonateNYC, and has given conferences and workshops at Pratt Institute, among others. As a graphic designer, her clients include Condé Nast, Candy Pratts Price (Vogue), and the Colombian Embassy in NYC. She also collaborates with emerging artists as part of her mission to empower people through fashion.
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