During this lecture she talked about her background and progression into this industry discussing her influences and work. She firstly explained her fine art background and moved on to discuss working in the Royal College textile department as a “technical Support Print Technician” for 15+ years, where she specialized in screen printing. She then explained that her influences are much the same as ours as she sources and is influenced from a variety of things such areas as:
- magazines
- internet
- books
- galleries
- exhibitions
- photography
She also described how she keeps her source materials and influences so she can revisits them again and again. She then explained the first production of her own designed wallpaper. Describing that she first designed the wallpaper for her own kitchen in 1996, which consisted of a large scale cutlery set. She explained that she liked working with organic source material such as Flowers, grass, feathers and preferred to have as few technical barriers between the source material and the final piece (wallpaper).
Throughout she discussed the variety of materials that she like to work with such as sequins, different textures of paper, metals and then talked about methods of creating the final pieces such as laser cutting, digital stitching and basic printing.
Overall I found the lecture interesting and enjoyed looking at an area of design which sometimes seem far removed from the area of multimedia design. I liked the use of organic materials and how Tracy kept the designs simple but effective.
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