ANNA SIPPONENP O R T F O L I O & C V

CURRICULUMVITAE

Anna Veera Alexandra SipponenTextile design student

date of birth. 10.10.1985place of birth. Raisio, Finlandnationality. Finnish

Päijänteentie 33 A 100510 HelsinkiFinland

tel. +358408313826email. anna.v.sipponen@aalto.fi

Weaving structures and jacquards, pursuing and develop-ing my own views and visual language through weaving. I would like to learn more about woven structures and their applications.

Adobe Photoshop for image processing, patterns and building jacquard structures, Adobe Illustrator for graph-ics and patterns. Weavepoint weaving design software.

Textile DesignSecond year studentAalto University School of Art & Design

literature editorEditor of arts & crafts booksNemo Publishing

Comparative literatureBachelor of ArtsUniversity of Helsinki

textile salespersonOy S.W. Lauritzon & Co.

2009-

2011-

2006-2011

2010-

EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

areas of interest

computer skills

COLLECTIONS

THE WHITECOLLECTION

THE WHITE COLLECTION

materials and weaving course Iautumn 2009

The White Colection is a result of structure studies. The colour span is limited to give the structure priority. The collection draws it’s inpsiration from home and nature. Home, as the commonplace and the Finnish nature, as a luxury in the bare north.

THE WHITECOLLECTION

Concrete Instant Noodles

Wave BridleAsphalt Traffic

Lightning Rod Bed of Reeds

THE WHITECOLLECTION

Under the Ice Baby SealSnowcap

Spring Home

Mist

ARABIAARABIA

materials and weaving course IIspring 2010

The brief was to make a color journey within the collection, I chose Arabia of the myths to be the destination of my journey. The collection showcases sand from the dunes and riches in the tents of a bedouin in the spirit of the 1001 Nights’ Tales.

Desert

FlowerOrnament

OasisHarem

SandstormBeduine VisageHarith

SheikhScheherazade

SUDENMORSIANSUDENMORSIAN –THE WOLF’S BETROTHED

materials and weaving course IIIautumn 2010

This collection includes my first woven jacquard design made with a TC1-loom. The collection is my interpretation of a Prix Italia winning Finnish opera The Wolf’s Betrothed by Tauno Pylkkänen. I made a fashion textile collection for the heroine of the story, and illustrated my designs into a photo of the silent film star Clara Bow, who I consider to be the modern face of the opera’s heroine.

Clara Bow

SUDENMORSIAN

FeathersLingonberry

ForestPeacock Fulvous

Lace

ON THE RAILSON THE RAILS

materials and weaving course IVspring 2011

On The Rails is a collection of uphol-stery fabrics designed for the interiors of trains and railway stations. My goal was to spice up the spaces in which people spend hours in. This collection is very concept driven, since it focuses on the need for change in the image and atmos-phere of Finnish the railway company VR.

PROJECTS

WHISPERWHISPER –A SHRUG

INDEPEndent courseSUMMER 2010

A light-weight shrug woven of mohair during an independent course in Summer 2010. I designed three concepts and color worlds for the shrug and wove one of them. The concepts are Talvipäivä – A Winterday, Karkelo – Festival and Iltarusko – Nightfall. I loved to see how my initial thoughts developed into the final product and also the process of picking out colors to make differing color worlds.

WHISPER

Nightfall

Winterday

Festival

GREENGABLES

Cumputer visualization

GREENGABLES

INSTALLATIONTO BE IMPLEMENTED

Greengables is a textile art work designed to provide comfort and strength. The project started as an Art course work in Spring 2011. It’s a work plan made especially for Käpytikka – a assisted living home for disabled young adults based in Helsinki. The space in which I planned this work is very white, clean and office like – it’s not the living room for the residents as it is supposed to be. I wanted to bring happiness, life and a bit of the jungle in the space. This work plan has got support from the residents and will be carried out some time in the future.

The swatches will be made in work-shops with the residents of Käpy-

tikka from their recycled fabrics

RECENT WORK & IN PROGRESS

TULIPTULIP

SELF-initiated projectspring 2011

This is a single fabric I designed as a spare-time project in Spring 2011 as I wanted to rehearse my skills with jacquard. I aimed to make a photo-realistic pattern of tulips and choose the structures for a two-weft-system in a way that would bring out nuances from the colors as they are woven to the dark loom. I also added a third weft, but it’s only used partly to save material. During this quick project I gave up on my photo-realistic aims and chose metal thread and broken lilac as my two main wefts and a light blue weft as the third.

THE VEILTHE VEIL – A COLLECTION OF PRINTED FABRICS

PRINT WORKSHOP COURSESPRING 2011

This collection shows a good glimpse of my visual interests. The collection was designed in Printing workshop in Spring 2011. It’s patterns – The Smoke, The Ink, The Fading Flowers – were not printed in the course since the course concentrated on sketching techniques and the design process.

The Smoke

THE VEIL

The Fading Flowers The Ink

LILACSLILACS

independent jacquard courseSUMMEr 2011

This work in progress will be a collection of jacquards for an independent jacquard course this Summer. I’m developing further the same ideas of the print collection The Veil. The fabrics are designed as clothing fabrics. Two of them are double-faced, so they can be used either side up. The loom is wool-tencel and the wefts are silk and mohair. The third fabric mixes satins and tabby in a tubular structure and that with a two-weft-system.

LILACS

Purple – Front

Blue – Front

Purple – Back

Blue – Back

T H A N K Y O U

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