Techniques for facing Impenetrability encountered in utilizing Arabic graffiti in designing youth apparel | ||||
| International Design Journal | ||||
| Article 4, Volume 4, Issue 4 - Serial Number 12, October 2014, Page 47-57 PDF (882.7 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/idj.2014.110755 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Khaled Mahmoud Sheikh1; Ryan Abdullah Al-Mousaly2; Doha Mustafa Al-Demerdash3; Ziad Odeh4 | ||||
| 1Lecturer, Garment Department, College of Applied Arts, Helwan University | ||||
| 2Professor of Design and Printing, University of Leipzig, Germany | ||||
| 3Assistant Professor, Department of Readymade Garments, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University | ||||
| 4Faculty of Applied Arts - Helwan University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| people to express their interactive relationship with life, and the rapid change taking place in Egyptian society in recent years is similar to previous periods experienced by many European countries And America, where the graffiti style appeared and was used by young people in both cases to express their ideas, and a strong influence of the graffiti movement is observed on the design of clothes internationally and in the Arab world from the beginning of its appearance until now, and as a result of this, the application of the graffiti style in designing clothes helps to create designs closer to the thought of young people, and helps me Designing products that contain decorative elements and vocabulary that approach their ideas, and are easy for them to accept and purchase. That is why graffiti drawings can be considered an entry point for understanding and analyzing the needs of young people and their ways of thinking, with the aim of designing their clothes and at the same time it can be used in designing clothes for this relatively large group in the Egyptian and Arab market. However, making use of graffiti drawings in designing clothes requires a special method of application, due to the difference in the nature of the fabrics, which are the medium used in the manufacture of clothes from the walls that represent the medium used in drawing graffiti, which requires different solutions to preserve the spirit of graffiti when transferred on the cloth. Also, the works of gravity are often fast and spur of the moment as they carry an increased amount of freedom of expression, which requires special treatment of it when designing it, and for this this research seeks to study and analyze the history of graffiti and the philosophy of its patrons as well as contemporary Arab graffiti drawings to use in designing youth clothes In order to achieve resistance to the difficulties of using graffiti drawings in the design of well-known clothes. The clothes, inspired by international and Arab graffiti drawings, were distinguished by very bright colors that attract attention and its modern and youthful spirit that clearly dominates the form of design, as the letters and words were used extensively, and most of them were executed in the style of silkscreen printing, digital printing and stencils. However, the application of the graffiti style in designing clothes faces difficulty in formulating the bold spirit that characterizes graffiti works in design ideas that can be applied in the manufacture of clothing, and some works come out in their ideas on the values and customs of society, and the presence of restrictions on the use of words, especially Arabic in designing clothes Some of them are religious, some are social, in addition to psychological restrictions, as well as the difficulty of implementing graffiti ideas in its abstract form on fabrics because the medium in graffiti drawings differs from the medium used in clothe | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Arabic Graffiti; Youth Garments; Apparel Design | ||||
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