Thomas Tallis Uniform Redesign Focuses on Customization and School Spirit

Thomas Tallis Uniforms

Alina Moat

Monday, 7 March 2011

Moving to a new building -
New Uniforms

A team of designer, students, teachers
The Idea and parents

Fact Finding Workshops to come up
with a brief


Fact ﬁnding....


Shadow students for 1 morning...

Students often carry their schoolbag Everyone hates the yellow t-shirt for PE. They
and jacket all day because they do not also use it for dance lesson.
trust the lockers and too many outdoor
corridors in the school. Scarves are not
allowed with the uniform. The school specialises in
art, and it has well equipped
studios for music, drama,
there is a strong interest in
new technologies.


Conversation with Tina, who runs the school shop

There are different options available PE bag is too small They could wear the ﬂeece to deal
for the uniform, but most people to ﬁt anything in it. with the cold corridors but nobody
choose the hood and polo shirt. buys it, itʼs too uncool. Only 5 were
Because they are more or less the sold this year.
same colour, they blend into one.


Whatʼs important for parents

Visibility for road safety

Distinctive from other schools

Warm in the winter

Easy care


Camera project:

you,
your school,
a day in the life of you

each participant of
the working group
was given a
disposable camera
to record a day in
their life


Workshop 1


To gain an understanding of
how students and teachers
see their school

Using the photos from the
camera project,
participants were asked to
tag the images they related
to, and to write their
thoughts on them.


To establish what
sustainable issues are most
important to the group

From a set of options,
participants were asked to
create their perfect T-shirt,
all groups thought the most
important issues were fair
working conditions and
energy consumption.


To ﬁnd ways to take into
account the needs of the
future students of the
school, and ﬁnd interactive
ways to achieve this.

A look into what’s
important to us now, will it
also be important to the
future students of Thomas
Tallis


Workshop 2


To gain an understanding of
what is the participants
experience of ‘local’ and
ways to encourage the
community around the
school to feel their
contribution to the uniform.

Have you noticed...?


To establish ways in which
the uniform could be
customisable within price
restrictions.


To ﬁnd out perceptions
regarding smart and
casual.


What are the positives and
negatives of the current
uniform?


Taking into account:

•Distinctiveness
•Reﬂects Diversity, Energy, Creativity and Uniqueness of the students
•Takes into account Local community
•Quality
•Affordability
•Practical Elements such as comfort, visibility, adaptation to seasons,
pocketing, easy care
The Brief •Colour palette to harmonize with colours of new site
•Taking a sustainability stance, with emphasis on producer and
energy consumption.

But also:
•How do we retire the old uniform so as not to create an even bigger
environmental issue?
•How to engage future wearers of the uniforms, in say, year 2020?


Finding inspiration...


Designing the colour palette...


Finding manufacturers and fabrics


Design direction


Initial Idea


Initial idea to be able to customise uniform by the student being able to choose their own colour shirt from a range of colours

Issue 1: Would be much more expensive as the shop would have
to keep all different colours in different sizes as well


Issue 2 : It works well with darker colour, however...


Issue 2 : ... it’s a bit garish with the blues in the palette ...


Issue 2 : ... and it really becomes a big issue
when a third colour is added to the equation


Proposal


Taking inspiration from the Meridian 0º, the shirts would come with a print
and every year, as the school runs campaigns such as read 1 book a month...


Students would select their campaign for the year, which will correspond with one colour;and this colour will be printed in their shirt


And for every year passing, a new campaign will be selected, and a new colour will be printed allowing for
small meaningful customisations,


Engaging with school activities.. whilst the uniform reﬂects their academic year by the amount of grids ﬁlled with colour


A classic style with a modern twist, slightly reminds of a tie, bringing that element of smart in a humorous, contemporary way


•allows for different years being distinctive
•allows for customisation, student chooses campaign and therefore colour
•allows for engagement and feeling of ownership of future students of Thomas Tallis
•allows for cheaper production, as we would use a standard polo shirt and customize it through print


Taking into account the feedback from the workshops, a medium weight jersey cardigan has been designed to allow for easy
access into garment and with generous pockets. It has printed ‘lapels’ for that humorous take on suits.


A sleeveless woven jacket that again, plays with the idea of lapel by using it’s negative space.
The lapel mirrors the printed lines in the cardigan.
This garment would allow for extra warmth on winter days, whilst allowing for freedom of movement with the lack of sleeves


it works better when the cardigan underneath is of a different colour, and it would make better sense for
production as colour matching from different suppliers can be very difﬁcult


If we were to chose the grey shade, we would have to add
reﬂective tape to the garment to make sure students are safe
and visible in the streets.

A generous pocket has been designed on the back, inspired
by cycling jackets.


It also works well when worn without the cardigan underneath


Another option would be to have a hood incorporated, to allow for protection on rainy days.
Even though it is a hoodie, it looks smart.


A different sleeveless jacket has been designed for the hooded version. This one has a sort of lapel, but
is created by the fold back of the centre front.


All custom made garments have been designed with cost effectiveness in mind, so that the manufacturing
part will not be expensive, details and cutting are simple. The fabrics should also be machine washable.


Jeans....it would be lovely, but would cost quite a bit more, we could use the
Thomas Tallis logo for the pocket details. Otherwise the uniform would work quite
nice with standard grey or black trousers.


Summer


Autumn


Winter


Spring


Or.....


What about the girls?


It has one
more
garment...

Skirts!!!


P.E. uniform coming up soon....


One more thing...


How do we retire the old uniform so as
not to create an even bigger
environmental issue?

Creating an event (s) that would become a collective
piece of art inviting the local community to join in
whilst customising the old uniforms ready to be donated
to a good cause.


event design coming up soon....


Thank you!


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