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Toile de jour
On 25, Sep 2010 | One Comment | In blog | By Buttons
Finally, here are some of my very own designs for you to have a squizz at. These were for the “contemporary Toile de Jouy” project at school. (Now do you get my clever french pun for a subject line?!) Jouy is short for Jouy-en-Josas which is a place that made the first toiles. Toiles are textile designs that comprise of scenes or vignettes.
So there’s your history lesson. If you look closely you will see each vignette that makes up my toile story and you will see that it’s about the zombie apocalypse. Tacky, yes but I had to get the zombie thing out of my system, you understand. Besides, it’s a real threat to our future as far as I’m concerned. You only need walk the streets of any major city to see the effects starting take hold…
Below that are the coordinates that we had to design. The brief consisted of two ogee based designs and two diamond based.
I was pretty chuffed with myself for finishing this project. Hope you will agree!
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Well.
You know my thoughts on the so-called ‘zombie apocalypse’. That’s right. It’s the hipster subculture’s backlash to the vampire phenomenon that is sweeping the nation and redefining everyone’s ideals about cross-plains-of-existence breeding.
Well, to the trendy undead, I say this: that toile has reinstated my faith in the ‘unique’, in the face of cultural saturation.
Buttons, you’ve outdone yourself. I love the wintry warmth and silent watchfulness of the images. I want that pattern on a soft, monochrome duvet on my bed. It’s the shit.
Yours,
Moodleton.
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