Festival Elements: A Source of Inspiration for Contemporary Fashionable Products.

Festivals are intrinsic aspects of the culture of a group of people and allow
displaying interesting crafts and elements such as fabrics, symbols, folktales,
and paraphernalia. The dynamism in the culture is vast but unexplored as
inspiration for creating products. This created the need to explore the
possibility of designing contemporary print and products from these crafts
and elements from two festivals (Aboakyir and Gologo) using Adobe Photo-
shop in the design process. This phenomenon necessitated the consideration
of this project which was undertaken by employing the design-based practice
coupled with observation as an instrument. Elements related to the festivals
were identified and using the design process, print designs were developed
and further simulated on different products. This practice seeks to promote
the people's cultural heritage to a wider populace and the world at large.
It is recommended that the Traditional Council should have a museum or
gallery for keeping the artworks used in their festivals for archival purposes.
Keywords
Festivals, Cultural Elements, Adobe Photoshop, Fashionable Products,
Paraphernalia