Wallace and Sewell is a woven textile design studio which was set up by Harriet Wallace-Jones and Emma Sewell. The textiles they create are for fashion and furnishings and they have also been commissioned for much larger projects.
The two designers won a commission to design new upholstery for London transport. Two designs were chosen containing just four colours each.
"We tried to confuse the eye, so that there seems to be more colour in the work, than just the actual four colours, creating designs that seem random through repetition"
Wallace and Sewell work with a number of other people, for example the are collaborating with Luisa Cevesa, an Italian accessories designer. She traps stripes of fabric between transparent plastic and works with Wallace and Sewell's offcuts. They also collaborate with a designer called Tamsin Howells who traps fabric between perspex to create jewellery.
I find Wallace and Sewell's use of colour very inspiring. It reminds me of Margo Selby's use of colour which I looked at in my previous post. The use of colour is very bold and eye-catching and it's something that I like to be able to do in my work - draw people in with my use of colour. I find it quite interesting that the designers only used four colours in their London transport project which makes me think about how I can use a limited colour palette effectively.
I like the work that Wallace and Sewell are doing with other designers. There is a lot of 'trapping' involved and this is something that comes up in the imagery I am working from in my current project. This has therefore made me think of other ways I could 'trap' things in my samples and using untraditional materials to do so.
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www.wallacesewell.com
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