{"id":1800,"date":"1971-04-01T15:19:31","date_gmt":"1971-04-01T14:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidplatts.com\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2018-03-19T16:35:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:35:55","slug":"design-and-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.davidplatts.com\/index.php\/1971\/04\/01\/design-and-designers\/","title":{"rendered":"Design and Designers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>illustrated: Outfit designed by Norma Chappell &#8211; printed wool by David Platts, 1969<\/p>\n<p><strong>Design and Designers<\/strong> &#8211; editorial in Fabric Forecast magazine, Autumn \/ Winter 1971<\/p>\n<p>(snippet)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A teacher with quite different vision is David Platts. Seven years as a graphic designer, followed by a three-year scholarship at the RCA, have left him with an unmistakably graphic approach to textile design.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Industrial mechanical images, screw threads, nuts and bolts, springs, boilers and functional everyday objects based on normal visual experience really excite me&#8221;, he says. &#8220;Using black line on white I try to capture their three-dimensional quality, but abstracting them too so that they become a pleasing pattern&#8221;. So far the dimensions of his designs have dictated more of a furnishing end use, but for his Batley exhibition this December he has worked on a wide range of smaller very detailed images for crazy fashion fabrics. To the black and white he&#8217;s adding the sort of colour Leger used &#8211; sharp green with subtle ochre, red with airforce blue. Since he left the RCA, David has been teaching at the Dewsbury and Batley Art School.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;(snippet)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>illustrated: Outfit designed by Norma Chappell &#8211; printed wool by David Platts, 1969 Design and Designers &#8211; editorial in Fabric Forecast magazine, Autumn \/ Winter 1971 (snippet)&#8230; A teacher with quite different vision is David Platts. Seven years as a graphic designer, followed by a three-year scholarship at the RCA, have left him with an unmistakably graphic approach to textile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.davidplatts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.davidplatts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.davidplatts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.davidplatts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.davidplatts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/staging.davidplatts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/staging.davidplatts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.davidplatts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.davidplatts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.davidplatts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.davidplatts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}