Stupid Comics

I've started to draw more frequently these small comic about daily life in Lahti on my second year of studying Fashion here. There has been all sorts of weird thing happening here, mainly because of my cat. He's a funny fellow...

Nuts and raisins

Inspired by 30 days of night

Jinx from teen titans

Goo

Ink and nib pen

What I've been doing for the past couple of days.I've been practicing using nib pen and ink like crazy. After realizing that felt pens, even tho convenient, they did not really show the thickness of the line naturally, (and quite frankly, I just got sick of them) I decided to try out nib pens, since they are commonly used in the comic industry.  The difference was quite visible to me.

Yuki onna

Army of dead birds

This was my first year project, conducted by Daniel Palillo. 

The idea of the project was to design a idea collection based on things that inspired you at that time.

inspirational moodboard collage

DEFY photoshoot

The whole collection "Defy Remote Control" 2013

Shot in Suvilahti, Helsinki

Photographer: Niclas Mäkelä 

Model: Maj Linnea

Make Up: Rosa Hawela

Styling: Myself

It was a great day.

DEFY 2013

DEFY remote control was a collection designed for the concept course in 2013.
My collection got inspired by punk movement, and since their ideology is somewhat ecological I tried to incorporate it in my work by using recycled/post-consumer waste jeans and leather as well as some viscose and a little bit of cotton jersey. We were asked to make one of the outfits for our annual fashion show, but I figured that I would produce a couple of other looks too, for a photoshoot.

What I'm always trying to say 

to the consumer is: 

buy less, choose well, make it last.

-Vivienne Westwood

Bad Friday

 

I told myself I wasn’t gonna post about this until done but I can’t hold it.
I’ve got a really exciting project going on and I've got the first chapter of it almost ready.

I've been working on my graphic novel for the past couple of weeks. Or rather, the idea for the project has haunted me for a couple of years now, and now I think my body is ready to make it happen. So that what's been going on. Drawing the stories out. And I'm super psyched! I've also got to practise using quills and inks, that's been super exciting for me, a fairly new technique to learn. 

Gothicum crematorium

Illustrations of weird stuff I've been drawing for an illustration collection.

more to find 

here:

http://broci-art.tumblr.com/

and 

here:

http://gothfuu.deviantart.com/

Kontti

I've been looking trough my old work that I found in  my pile of sketches and stuff and came across some of very early projects of mine. This was my first year assignment, one of our first design projects with a photoshoot. The year was 2010 and the objective was to make an outfit in collaboration with Kontti, which is a charity shop uphold by the red cross.
Our job was to design an outfit that's made out of secondhand clothing. We could use whatever materials we could find in the secondhand shop.

Sparassidae

Sparassidae- The hunter and the hunted

WE had a photoshoot collaboration course with some of the photography students from our school. The idea was to shoot graduation project editorial. Each graduating student got paired up with a photography student and under Lauri Erikssons direction we had one day to figure out our editorial concept and next week it was already shooting time.

I think that the photoshoot went well and I owe a huge thank you to Jirina and our models for their hard work.

 Valokuvaus/Phorography - Jirina Alanko
Meikki/Make-Up/Hiukset/Hair - Viviann Raudsepp
Malli/Model - Piergiorgio & Tuomo/Brand

KOE14 Thank you

It was a great show!

Thank you everybody who came to see it. 

The show will be soon found on youtube.

KOE 14

Our fashion show is just around the corner
http://muva.fi/koe14/

 Our school is having our annual fashion show next week and this year it was our class that planned it. Our main theme for the show was to play with the idea of nature vs artificial, children vs adults and minimalism vs maximalism, ordinary vs extraordinary. The name KOE can be translated from Finnish as an experience, a spectacle. The show will include final collections of the graduating students as well as creations from other fashion students from 1st, 2nd and 3rd year.

UNI the anthology

Each year I and a couple of my friends organize a zine in which new and young talented artists get an opportunity to show off their work. The continuous theme of the zine is "dreams", which is also a direct translation from Finnish word "Uni". Every year we choose a new dream-themed subtitle for artists to work with. The anthology consists of illustrations and comics mainly made by Finnish artists, but recently others too have been participating in the project and it's great!
Third book is coming out this summer including stories and illustrations revolving around "phantasmagoria".

But this is how it all started.

Evangelion of Plastic Soup

It is finally over. I have gotten my thesis done and that has mainly been the reason for my absence from.. well almost everywhere.
But it's done, and I couldn't be more relieved. The last couple of days have been hectic since nearly everyone in our class has been sewing non-stop and printing and pressing their thesis books.
It's been plain insane.
 
The thesis or "graduation project" as we ought to say, contains a research part that we started already in November last year and based on that research we were asked to design a collection of 20 pieces.
I chose to research plastic and its effects on our environment.  As a visual inspiration I used one of my favorite anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion.The research started out with the idea of an apocalyptic world that was caused by mankind. I thought that with that idea, plastic would serve as a great example of environmental disaster waiting to happen. Basically, I started studying plastic, what was the status of plastic waste in the world and how it can be recycled into fashion/fabrics/textiles.

The research begun by looking for information about plastic waste and its environmental impact. Huge amount of plastic gets thrown into landscapes each year and because it does not biodegrade, it contaminates our surroundings and food.  Also it was quite disturbing to find out that there are huge garbage patches floating in the Pacific Ocean. I honestly had no idea that there was such a thing until I learned about it in "Trash to trend"-workshop. Even though plastic can be recycled into new products, there is still far too little of recyclable raw material collected to make it count.

The hardest part of the project was to find textiles made out of recycled polymers. It took me a while, but finally I did find the fabric that I needed, but was surprised how little of such textiles are on the market for a basic consumer. It seems that this kind of textile is just starting to arrive on the market.  
  

Cover shot by Jirina Alanko