LANGUAGE OF DESIGN

[Music] [Music] driftwood cast by Restless seas upon the golden sands [Music] see share all the lanes of creatures which once dwelt within a mysterious marine world to the scientist calcium carbonate but to the artist and novel of nature a source of inspiration [Music] the tea tree of Australian shores the design may still remain within the form of this now the nature of the parrots [Music] [Music] the field of industrial design is today providing increasing opportunities for Victor's the Australian textile industry which has in the past relied upon designs from overseas has realized the need for fabrics and bought ideas of design which are on Australia and it's new world approach to living within their studio full play has been given to the idea Australian and many of its creations have met with great favour overseas as well as at home nature provides the mainspring of thought when considering design a sponge a shell a leaf or a flower any one of these may inspire the designer to produce something which will be aesthetically satisfying all our mental grist for the designers mind a piece of driftwood who would not be fascinated by the twists and curls the pattern of the timber grain gives us transferred to rice paper it will provide a mastered impression a negative is made directly from the paper transfer to give a delicate Don relief the design akia has obtained directly from nature a literal translation of what happened to be seen by chance the barber seashore [Music] [Music] a dead twigs country kitchen of the designer noni definitely satisfying if stark patterning is examined against a multiple of colored backgrounds by selectivity and discrimination the artist has laid bare the essential design of these capricious twigs [Music] [Music] nature's animate creatures too may catch the eye of the designer a butterfly gently resting upon a gaudy flower and the memory of this moment perpetuated in fabric for all time a solitary leaf may result in a pleasing naturalistic pattern and the herbarium becomes an important library of ideas leaves from the old world and the new preserved and stored and ready for perusal by the ever searching artist [Music] nature may combine with cheer in the never-ending quest for original theme delicate lines of the timber grain divide the symmetric pattern of cubes and squares a wealth of inspiration may be found in such a simple theme - by a talented artist you'll burn an artist could have been inspired by a Moscow bird stern found upon a bleak windswept plain [Music] the textile designer has often studied the microscopic world hidden from our normal vision what a display Nature can provide the imagination is staggered by its complexity the microscope here is studying diatoms the skeletons of microscopic plants which lived and died upon the floor of a prehistoric ocean 15 million years ago inspired by the sunsets of the Australian tropics colors are blended in midair and breathtaking shadings obtained by what is known as the own brush method of design plastic and three qualities of leaves have been recorded by the exposure LeWitt's to photosensitive paper photographic science has become a valuable accessory to the textile designer the vision of the designer and the cameras I are used side by side only the camera can satisfactorily register surface impressions textures recesses and plastic forms a drawing here would not be sufficiently accurate color photography is a valuable aid in determining color compatibility avila fabric appeal to that other group of designers the creators of fashion the color transparency can be sent around the world to be studied and commented upon [Music] sample pieces of fabric are arranged within a small area they may be studied in their relationship to one it's important to know how a new fabric creation will blend or compete with established design [Music] is this pattern livable then never paper coffee be hung in studies not until the studio is satisfied that the design for a curtain fabric is just right will it go into production the parade of the scale models many of your ladies upon whom new designs will be tried if a pattern fails in this situation it would most likely fail in a real-life situation [Music] and after the decision to put a design into production the creation of fashions to suit the new material life-sized drawings which will be copied and released by the studio to the fashion world [Music] special ideas to employ a new fabric creation to the fullest possible advantage will be photographed on fashion sense the textile designer emerges as a vital force in the design for living embody a vision of tropical sunset color on wings and inspiration by a butterfly corroboree a design which is a purely australian ology [Music] Australian wildfire a naturalistic floral pattern of pleasing design [Music] a Paisley scarf from the beauty and detail of a Persian clock photo Tech's the amazing method of transferring your favorite photo to fabric on Braj in a different night wildflowers run riot and this masterpiece of the design of skill and imagination [Music] [Music] driftwood reclaimed by the sea from whence came nature's plan for the design of all night upon earth [Music]