Strike a pose

In this fashion session we challenged our students to make a costume which morphs: a garment that either transforms or combines two ideas together. One of our designers thought about water and lightning, another colour and shades.  

This geometric garment -black swan, white swan- uses an interesting diagonal design and feathered fabric, reminiscent of wings. The outfit is completed with a angled triangular hat, which creates a beak like headress.

This is a pattern drafting exercise. The idea is to put together a rough working idea for a uniform -not a finished garment. Our students have to fashion something fabulous using textiles, bits of old garments, ribbons, sticky back plastic, foam sheets, mylar, tape, glue and pins. 

In this design, light and dark fabrics are used to represent good and evil. 

                                            

This reversible costume is a combination cat-ghost. The headband also twists round to reveal cat ears or  ghost horns.

Ninja man and all his accessories...

This design was split down the middle, with one side decorated with fringes and colourful bows to make a  clown. The other side uses net flowers and silver tinsel to create a ballerina.

My Place….

…..has an open concept kitchen, a loft bedroom (with a ladder to go up) a bedroom and an office den with a desk and laptop computer.

……is a spooky funhouse, with a hanging skeleton, a bouncy bunk bed and various resident ghouls.

…is a witch doctor's palace, with a central elevated spell platform and fenced off nook rooms for each family member.

…has a video game table with room for the console and three controllers and an attached jumbo screen.

….has a platform bed with a window view, a computer desk and wall mounted screen and a shower unit.

……is a fashion-themed penthouse with a lipstick shaped bed and chair, a large walk-in closet and a room for cats and dogs (with a central dividing wall).

---has a comfy lying area with two stuffed pillows, a storage area and a sink and can fold up!

…is actually a jet plane with a steering wheel and reinforced seat.

---has a multi-legged table which is sturdy enough to hold a person! After dinner, it can be flipped over and can be used as a hoop throwing carnival game!

…has a trampoline, a boxing set personal trainer, a 32" TV in the bedroom, a velvet cushion armchair on wheels, a cheetah-sheeted queen-sized bed with a skylight over it, lots of plants on the balcony, a free food service, a disco-shower with a built in mirror ball and boom box unit and heated bathroom floor.

…has an inside treehouse, a pool table, a chalk room, a purple and pink bunk bed, a trampoline, a flat screen TV, skinny boxes, a make-up room, separate walk-in closets for the girls and the boys,a play kitchen and a hot tub.

Junction Function

 This week's challenge: to reimagine the Bathurst/Adelaide corner. This is a busy intersection close to the Boys and Girls' Club. We asked for a streetscaping feature to animate the sidewalk for pedestrians.

This inventor constructed a  little free sidewalk library out of cardboard. These community book exchanges are popping up all over the city. The book slot is in the front and the blue roof flaps open to reveal an array of slots for storage. This library is also designed to hold small knick knacks for pedestrians to help themselves to.

This designer made a sidewalk drum kit for musically inclined passersby.

This team wanted to put a corner skate deck and parkette. Their design includes a burrowing tube with a skylit garden hub and various interconnecting bridges to skateboard over. 

In this design, there is a multilayered seat and a shelter that doubles up as a wheelchair accessible viewing platform.

 This team are missing Ontario Place, so they designed a play pool with convertible recliner chairs that can be used as mini slides (green), a life guard seat on wheels (yellow) and a dive deck (transparent) with a detachable pod slide (blue).

                    Quite a range of different ideas this week. Well done kids!