About Me
Hi, Gary Odufeso, I’m a fashion textile designer graduate from UEL
Gary Odufeso is a British-Nigerian textile designer who specialises in colourful prints for fashion and interiors, always use a range of bold bright colours and never afraid to use it, or to try something new. Loves to create a story that could relate to anyone and to bring awareness, love and togetherness
My passion for textiles is screen printing, and obsessed experimenting with colours, I always use screen print to create a story and I use colour as a feeling or a mood and combining them together from my project. I also like to experiment with digital print and lino prints onto fabrics
INSPIRATION
My initial inspiration started from creating my diary illustrations and then turn into a drawing
It all started of creating my diary of the experience and challenges that I have faced as a autistic person and living with Asperger’s. The diary includes how I felt during the experiences of the past and present, then turned this into a symbol. The symbol will then turn into art and colour. This meant to bring awareness who experienced similarly, and to people and to learn and educate ourselves to understand each other
My theme ‘My Autistic Mind’ was inspired by Michael Jean-Basquiat and Norma Chung. I was inspired how Basquiat was creating diaries and mind maps with symbols and drawings using paints to create his personal stories and to get people to think what was going through his mind. I was also inspired by Norma Chung where she creates scribble drawing that look like writing which helped me to create my writing diary to scrunch up together to get people to figure out of what I’m trying to say.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
DIARY ILLUSTRATION
DIARY ILLUSTRATION
DIARY ILLUSTRATION
DIARY ILLUSTRATION
MIXED MEDIA DIARY ILLUSTRATION
MIXED MEDIA DIARY ILLUSTRATION
MIXED MEDIA DIARY ILLUSTRATION
SCREEN PRINTS SAMPLES ON DENIM
KNIT AND SCREEN PRINT SAMPLES
VISUAL LINE UP
DEVELOPMENTS OF DIARY ILLUSTRATIONS DESIGN
UPCYCLING DEVELOPMENTS
KNIT SAMPLES
FINAL DEVELOPMENTS
FINAL DEVELOPMENTS
FINAL DEVELOPMENTS
FINAL DEVELOPMENTS
FINAL COLLECTION
FINAL COLLECTION
DETAIL
My Autistic Mind
Following the diary of my illustrations, I have chosen one symbol that shows how it started, my experiences and challenges I’ve faced along the way. For the colour story, I’ve chosen primary colours, then made it look like secondary and primary at the same time using pink, teal and mustard. This is supposed to reflect the moods and feelings towards the story. I’ve collected the denim jeans/jacket, sweatshirts and hoodies from the charity shops to unpick and customise my designs using a range of techniques such as, screen print, embroidery, dyeing and patchwork. For the sleeves, I used leftover cotton jersey fabric from the samples and recreate the designs using screen print technique and rearrange them onto the sleeve and top stitched it. As for my diary, I’ve gathered all the diary writing and created into one design using photoshop, then translated onto the screen print to go along with my other designs. The diary writing is suppose to get people to read and figure out of what I’m saying.
“No matter what disabilities you have, you can achieve of what you love to do.” - Gary Odufeso
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