Recycled Fashion

Conserve India is an upcycling project in Delhi. They upcycle plastic bags that litter the city streets and transform them into fashion accessories such as, bags and belts. The project not only aims to tackle the growing mountain of litter, but also employs locals, paying fair wages that can provide a solid income.
"Handmade Recycled Plastic is created through a unique method of upcycling plastic bags.  Because the plastic is kept in its original form and colour, Conserve's upcycling technique uses much less energy than traditional recycling and we don't need dyes.  A green way of making fashion from waste – Handmade Recycled Plastic is surely a material of the future!"

http://www.conserveindia.org/

Adidas and G Star have also taken on recycling projects to help the environment. G Star Rawt akes plastic from the ocean and recycles it into denim.



http://rawfortheoceans.g-star.com/

Online Portfolio

I have published  my portfolio online using issuu.com found on the link below

http://issuu.com/elissaflynn/docs/portfolio_for_issuu

C.V

After putting together a C.V on Word, I have moved it into InDesign and styled it to make it more interesting, also incorporating the logo I created for the business card. The outcome is a lot better than I thought my C.V could ever look, this task has allowed me to consider different design layouts, and understand how a simple word file can be transformed into an aesthetically pleasing document.

Portfolio Building

Over the past couple of weeks I have been compiling my work from the past 4-5 units into a portfolio which will be printed into a physical portfolio, and also published on issuu.com as a digital portfolio. I've been playing around with different compositions and layouts on Photoshop and InDesign to create an aesthetically pleasing and informative portfolio, however it has been difficult picking out the most important pages and aspects to include.  Putting together the pages has also been a lot more time consuming than I had previously thought, I think this is due to the fact that most pages consist of sections of scanned sketchbook pages, which then had to be edited in photoshop before they looked suitable to use.