Chapter 3 - Design development

This chapter was all about making patterns out of the stars I'd found in the last two chapters.

 1: some rough sketches

2: Design sheet A

The designs on Sheet A were relatively easy to manage though I'm not sure how successful the distortions into other shapes were. The star has fitted into the triangle but I wouldn't personally see this as a star shape any more, but as I was no happier with my other attempts (in picture 1) these are what ended up on my page.

3: Repeat patterns

4: Design sheet B

5: Design sheet B ctd

I am trying to follow my two main strands of inspiration within these sheets - the Islamic tiles which I saw at the British Museum, and the asymmetric starfish so I tried out border patterns using both sources.

 6: Design sheet C

7: Design sheet C ctd

 

I found some of the suggestions for patterns difficult to get my head around - particularly when it came to the complex counterchange for Design sheet C. For this one I started by trying to replicate the example in the course notes but even found this tricky to do for some reason.

 

Although the Islamic tile design at the bottom of image #6 is a complex one consisting of several different 8-pointed stars, I'm much happier with the patterns that have resulted. I also think that some of the patterns made up from the negative space pieces left over from earlier designs (in image #7) are quite interesting.