#2015BestNine

Now that Christmas is over and everyone has eaten more than they can handle this holiday season, it's time to start counting days and hours to the clock turning to a new year. It has been a big trend these past two weeks as we're getting close to starting the new year - every social media I opened I've been seeing people post their nine best pictures from 2015. I thought this was such a lovely idea and a quirky way to reflect on the year. I have decided to share a little personal side of my life here and show you my highlights of this year.

Market Visual Awareness Project | Part One

As a part of my FCP course, just before we broke up for Christmas, we were given a new 'summative brief', which will be marked. The brief is to continue the trend category from our 'formative group brief' and create an individual report in a 16 or more page magazine style on In Design . Following our last trend category, which as I've mention on a few of my previous posts has been Denim. Picking out a sub-category for that, I have a chosen to focus on distressed denim for this project. The project has been divided into 3 categories, retail, cultural and our communication. Since I don't have a lot of experience with working on In Design, I decided to start as early as possible so that I have enough time to perfect it when it comes to working on the magazine. My last post was of course of me making my sketchbook covered in denim fabric to anchor the theme. Now I have collected images as research and chosen my images to visually analyse for part 1 of the project.

Cara for TopShop S/S15 Ad Campaign

Kowsley Safari Park

Have you ever driven through a safari with your own car? You know those days when you're going through old folders of random pictures on your computer? Well, today was the day I decided to clean my computer of random things that wasn't serving me or the space on it. To my surprise, I found some old pictures that were taken at Knowsley Safari Park in Lancashire. My mom, her friend and I went there for a day out a few months ago and I took these pictures to go into my project for A Levels but I'd 'lost' them until now. I thought, since I didn't get to put them in my project, I'd share pictures of some cute animals that I came across on my adventure. 

We drove through the safari with our car, looking at all the animals living their everyday lives. I remember we drove through the baboon section, which is an option because these baboons jump and break things on your car and will sit on your windscreen until you drive through their section. A wonderful experience but it did cost us a wiper! Lions walk right by your car but unfortunately, the day we went, they were all lazy and slept as we drove past them. After the drive, there a small cafe and gift shop to browse through. It was such a bizarre yet wonderful experience and I'd recommend anyone that lives in England or visits for longer than a few days to check this place out.

I'm happy I found these pictures because I had completely forgotten we ever went there! Brought back such fond memories. 

The Ultimate Christmas Playlist

MVK's Kala Pranjali

DIY Distressed Denim

Nottingham Fashion Market

Now that it's officially December, there are a lot of interesting places to visit on the lead up to Christmas. Over the weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to go experience the Nottingham Market. I heard about this through University and decided to go have a look. The market was held over three days on the 4th, 5th and the 6th of December in the well known Lace Market. The main idea behind it was to bring, up and coming designers and brands under one roof to display their products "in a carefully curated and beautifully presented setting". The area is particularly known for its unique fashion outlets. This was the first time I have been to the Lace Market and the 'Nottingham Market' was definitely the best way to step into Nottingham's fashion finest.