Oliver Bonas: Meeting With Ellen after research

With myself and Emily researching into the project pack and the in depth to the collection and its routes, we liked the idea of basing our candle range on the Veracruz carnival. We found out that the collection was inspired by Mexico and the Veracruz is the most popular carnival, that features vibrant colour and pattern throughout. We met up with Ellen to discuss the routes that we could take to designing the packaging for the candles. Ellen liked the idea of touching upon Mexican culture more, with her own practice being heavily inspired by Mexican floral surface patterns. We all discussed how we wanted to have an array of directions, with the imagery of a carnival being visually heavy, so we need to find a direction to narrow it down and be more restrictive. Ellen was happy with the approach and stated that she would have an array of ideas in around a weeks time and she would look further into the project pack for inspiration when designing the Mexican inspired patterns to make sure the Vision represent Oliver Bonas well.