Weissman Interview

1. How did you get into the fashion industry?
Well my father was the CEO of a company named Gimbles and my mother was the head buyer. I worked for the company for awhile. I then went to college for ergonomics which was me designing objects for people. I ended up working with my friend who owns The Design Library and he hired me as a salesman.

2. Is there a lot of math in your job?
Just regular adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. Nothing hard.

3. What kind of clients do you have?
 We have really big clients like Marc Jacobs, Micheal Kors, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Banana Republic, Calvin Klein and many others.

4. What does a typical visit look like?
We either go to the client or they come here. We show them what we think they are looking for. Usually they like every one pattern out of ten that we pick. So we have to pick out hundreds of patterns for them to be inspired buy and pick up.

5. How do you decide on what to pick?
They give us some specifications on what they like, and we pick a bunch out that we think go well with those specifications.

6. What is a typical day for you?
I am either here in the office setting up meetings, filling out paper work and picking out designs, or I am in the city or in another destination seeing my clients and showing them the designs I picked and selling them or renting them out.

7. What kind of person do you have to be to do what you do?
You have to be an open, extroverted person that can talk to people, have small talk and relate to others. You have to be friendly and personal, but also be down to business and get the job done. You have to be a good listener to figure out what exactly your client wants and do the best you can to get them what they want.

8. How do you know what is coming up in trends?
I know what the trends are from my clients. They pick designs that will be for clothes 2 years from now. So if Banana Republic requests stripes and small plaids 2013 menswear, I know that those designs will be in and whats happening in 2013.

Keep on Working

I have been continuing to get my pictures finished for my gallery I will be presenting. I still have to mount some more, but all the patterns, doodles and art work is already all done. I also have to practice what I am going to say, such as my college essay piece, and my inspiration paragraph.

There is a lot to be rehearsed and set up but I still have a lot of time to get it all done!

I have been talking to Brooks everyday, we have discussed my project many times and everything is going well.

I also have a planned meeting with my neighbor Richard Weissman, where I am going to show him all the patterns I created... excited to show him everything I have created.

Just continuing to work!!

FIT!!!

Yesterday I got an acceptance letter from FIT!!!!

AHHHHHHHH!!!!

I am so excited!! ! ! ! !  ! ! ! ! !

just wanted to tell my followers I will be going to school for my passion, textile/surface design, in the fall!!!

Presentation Preparation

For my final W.I.S.E presentation, on May 2nd, I plan on doing a gallery sort of thing. 


I have not decided on the location, whether it be in the senior cafeteria, or near the auditorium. 


I have realized how much work I have done since I had to mount it all on black chip board. 


I probably have 70 things to hang, around there. I might cut things out because there is so much!


I made a list of how I want the gallery to go:

-college essay, how I am a chameleon and art is my sun

-start at renderings of flowers from Junior Year and talk about my introduction to textiles

-first time at FIT, (peacock painting, wood painting, nesting doll drawing) talk about commute and how I loved it

-first pattern, making it with Brooks, and section in my college essay about creating it

- second time at FIT ( man, torso, purple lady portrait, watercolor man, man/woman drawing)

-talk about inspiration (FIT inspiration paragraph) and pictures of inspiring art, textile book  patterns

- doodles, the start of all my projects

- plate doodles and process to final plates made

-stationary made from plate designs

-making a plaid

-working with dye

-transformations
 ~flower doodle ---> CD case
~moving eye doodle---> croque--->patterns made
~Apple doodle--->stems ogee patterns---> repeating patterns
~mono print #3---> black and white croque--->separated face
~silence of the lambs doodle---> flower patterns
~eye border doodle---> tetris croque--->repeating patterns made
~minimalist doodle--->red card minions--> repeating patterns 

From Croque To Repeating

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    This was one of my first designs created on the computer. It is a croque








Then I created all of these repeating patterns:

 

This is one of my favorites.

This pattern was just a couple of the patterns I had already made just place on top on one another.

Tremendous Transformations

It all started out as a doodle

A doodle I thought would become a border, but somehow I decided to look at it differently.

 So I created this.

A croque, that I didn't know how to make repeat.

 But once I was taught, 

These are what were made.

Same for this little doodle, I created on the plane to Paris, France.

 That was then made into these:

 

 And then repeated into these actual patterns:

The last transformation.

A doodle made on the train home from the city.

Simply out of boredom.

                       

Created into this:

and then repeated:

I am very happy I was able to learn how to make REAL PATTERNS. 

MORE TO COME!

Inspired by Incredible Colors

Two amazing pieces of inspiration


These two pictures inspire to create pieces of work that have intense hues that work together. Just as well as these do.

This is a picture Cinque Terre in Italy. The colors of the houses are absolutely magnificent. So bright, and all work together so well.

This is ink in water. It is truly amazing. I love the colors and how it is all so free.