a wonderful iPad recreation inspired by means of the arts and Crafts motion
The V&A Museum’s first game fashion designer-in-place of abode releases “Strawberry Thief.”
Editor: Suzanne LaBarre
remaining week, the Victoria & Albert Museum launched “Strawberry Thief,” an iPad app in accordance with the textiles of nineteenth-century British Arts and Crafts movement fashion designer William Morris.
Sophia George, the museum’s first game fashion designer-in-place of dwelling, studied considered one of Morris’s famed patterns, which depicts a chicken in search of strawberries among a sea of swirling vines and plant life, all the way through a six-month residency that ended in March. given that then, she has been leading a staff that includes two artists, a programmer, and an audio dressmaker, to bring her vision to existence.
in the sport, the participant assumes the function of the bird; through gathering strawberries, the hen is ready to draw first the outlines of Morris’s 1883 pattern, then common colors, and finally richer colors and textures.
Morris, a designer, poet, and architect, fell in love with medieval artwork and history whereas studying at Oxford. (Later in life, he even went so far as to embellish his united states residence in Kent with murals depicting tales by way of Chaucer and Thomas Malory.) He started experimenting with silk weaving within the 1870s, the usage of natural dyes, and soon made his identify promoting fabrics and wallpapers to London’s most trendy properties. His legacy endures: Even Dr. Martens has released a boot showcasing the same “Strawberry Thief” design.
which you can download the app without cost in the App retailer.
[Top Image: © Sophia George]
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