PATTERN DEVELOPMENT
During these first few weeks we have also developed some patterns which we are going to allow our users to be able to use when designing their own shoe. We will import the patterns as a texture or material that will wrap around parts of the 3D shoe object. We developed the patterns on photoshop and have used a series of traditional African prints to generate contemporary African art patterns. We wanted to use patterns that had been derived from traditional ones mainly because it linked with our theme of people creating their own version of themselves. In the shoe industry you don’t often see African patterns used in the design process for shoes. This way our users have unique patterns and they can still choose from numerous patterns that we have generated ourselves. Not every single pattern is generated from a traditional African print but we wanted to majority to be.
To the right are some of the patterns that we have decided to use within our application: