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Aerial

We are still looking at aerial shots in the office for inspiration after some research we discovered these beautiful photographs by photographer Joseph Ford Ford teams aerial photographs with designer garments, giving a visual for how we can translate environmental…

Photoshoot

We are kicking off this week with images from our scarf photo-shoot in which we tried to capture an amazing scarfs that were designed by fashion students from St George TAFE for our “Local Produce” woman’s scarf SS14 competition. Here…

Freshly made

This pretty tote is one of the examples of what we do at Digital Fabrics. Made last week from scratch, designed, hand painted, printed and made at Digital Fabrics.

Local Produce

Earlier this year Digital Fabrics took forward a competition for the students at ST George TAFE to design a scarf inspired by the theme ‘local produce’ students had to research what this meant to them and interpret it into a…

Get Up High to Look Down Low

This week we’re going up sky high to get a bird’s eye view of some great ideas to feed into the repeating pattern melting pot of textile design. And having seen a few on the runway shots from New York…

Floral for Spring

The Spring 2014 RTW Fashion shows have commenced with New York first to start showing the talented designers latest collections. One trend so far that has been featured in almost all the collections is Floral’s, in the words of Miranda…

Optical Illusions

Carrying on from our last blog post, we are still looking at the impact of texture in prints. Today we are inspired by the Swedish label ACNE Studios. When you think ACNE Studios, you think classic shapes, beautiful fabrics and…

Get A Little Touchy Feely

If the digital printing form on textiles where it’s possible to render fine detail and subtleties in colour, adding texture to your design can enhance your print, lifting it beyond the end product into a realm of its own. There…

Read Between The Lines

Big and bold combinations (L-R) Etro, Dolce & Gabbana, Paul & Joe Its always around in some capacity, from season to season there’ll be a stripe or two, a polka dot and even a check. But recently it seems the…

3.1 Phillip Lim for Target

  The Fashion world is a buzz by the release of yet another Target collaboration, the latest designer lending their creative talent is 3.1 Phillip Lim The collection highlights the classic silhouettes 3.1 Phillip Lim is famous for, with some…

Faux Nature

At Digital Fabrics we love Flowers and anything Flora or Flora inspired. This weeks Flora inspiration comes from Isabelle Menin a Belgian photographer. Isabelle Menin began her artist career focusing on painting, after several exhibitions, she decided to quit painting…

Novelty Prints

Novelty prints seem to always be in fashion, they appear in various forms from being a bold placement image or an all over print. We have a few Novelty prints in our Design Library for purchase, if you are looking…

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