Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques
Building a Visual Narrative: Defining the Theme and Message
A course by Giselle Manzano Ramírez , Designer and Artist
Joined December 2019
Joined December 2019
About the video: Building a Visual Narrative: Defining the Theme and Message
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn how to come up with a theme and conduct research, translate concepts into graphics, and create a concept board. I will also teach you the importance of planning and sketching before exploring your garment as a medium. ”
In this video lesson Giselle Manzano Ramírez addresses the topic: Building a Visual Narrative: Defining the Theme and Message, 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
“ Building a Visual Narrative: Defining the Theme and Message In the previous lesson, you learned about color psychology. In this lesson, we'll talk a bit about the process I follow to come up with a design concept. I believe in the importance of textile work and how secondhand clothing sets a platform for awareness, empowerment, and creation. Once we choose our canvas, we need to ask, "What do I want to communicate with this piece of clothing?" As a designer, I use semiotics, which is the study of symbols and signs. I also use etymology, which is the study of the origin of words and their ...”
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Course summary for: Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques
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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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