Final collaboration piece

When designing the collection, hay and amin both designed t-shirts, although the collection will be released in May when it will most likely be hot weather, i felt that we needed another jumper in the collection and so we collaboration on this three way embroidered design (to be placed on magenta magic jumpers) 

The concept for this design came from a sketchbook illustration i saw of Amins during one of our check up crits. In his sketchbook he had illustrated balloons with faces on them, i thought this concept would be a good way to merge our three styles without the piece looking too all over the place.
The design shows a hand with a bangle reading 'The Graduate Collection'. the three balloons have each been illustrated by myself, amin and jay, with each of our signature illustration faces presented on the balloon. The idea i'm trying to communicate through this design is the message that we're so close to being set free in to the world, after 20+ years of being in education, with the floating hands grip on the balloons being very loose, this in addition to the rather dazed out, unenthusiastic almost worried look on the balloon characters faces expresses some of the emotions myself, jay, amin and we imagine many other graduates feel.