I have toyed around with several topics that were relevant to my work for my critical review. These have include looking at illustrations in modern design, what makes modern illustrations modern, Halloween designs, depth in digital print, narrative and meaning in illustrations for designs and tension within subjects for interior textiles. Eventually I settled on depth within digital print and how to not make printing flat. I suggested layering, tension and hand applied techniques to give digital fabric depth and an aura. Aura is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a distinctive atmosphere surrounding a given source” and “an energy field that is held to emanate from a living being” available at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aura [Accessed 7 January 2009].
Treadaway states of Walter Benjamin in his essay "The Work of Art in the Mechanical Age" (1934), the use of the "term aura to describe the emotive element that is lacking in the machine manufactured product". Treadaway goes on to look at various effects with digital fabric printing. In an interview with Earley she states that "printed cloth is too flat" and it being " a stage in between" rather than a finished product.
Treadaway, C., 2004, Digital Imagination: The impact of Digital Imaging on Printed Textiles. Textile, vol 2 pp 256-273.
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