Here at Slow Textiles we are experimenting with electronic fabric samples.
It's playtime at the moment!
It's playtime at the moment!
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
What Are You Making?
At the Slow Textiles group we believe in making conscious.
This is why we craft media.
You can make for 5 years as an 'emerging talent' design graduate;
you can make for 10 years if you find the space and money;
you can make for 20 years if your vision has roots;
you can make for a lifetime if you need it to live.
This is where making conscious comes in.
How deep is your conscious? How far can you see?
How much further do you need to see?
How much further do you want to see?
It is this focal length that keeps the Slow Textiles group making.
If you're interested to learn more,
please join us for a FREE workshop at the
Slow Design School, London, 4:30pm on November 12th 2011.
Click red circle 'Slow Design School', top right, to attend.
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Flash View! New Work for Animated Textiles
Repetitive Triangles II,
Emma Neuberg,
animated silkscreen print and plastic on paper,
2011.
Emma Neuberg develops ideas for the next Slow Textiles workshop (taking place at the V&A in September and October). These mark an experimental phase inspired by bringing Italian design house, Memphis, into the digital age.
The initial objective is to bring slow hand processes together with digital crafting for online dissemination and 'new' meaning.
Repetitive Triangles II builds upon old textile 're-animations' that Emma created during the V&A Quilts exhibition last year:
Inheritance I,
Emma Neuberg,
re-animated rayon,
2010.
Japanese Floral Prints at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Decorative Paper With Design of Chrysanthemums, artist unknown, 19th century, Japan.
The great popularity of chrysanthemums in eighteenth century Japan led to the cultivation of many different varieties.
As a Japanese floral print lover, we thought you'd be interested in this wonderful exhibition taking place in Boston, USA, dedicated to the oeuvre:
The best news, however, is that you can enjoy the entire show from the comfort of now as we found this site that has streamed the whole exhibition:
Monday, 18 July 2011
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Summer Lovin'
In 1910-2, Erte or Romain de Tirtoff (his real name), moved to Paris to pursue a career as a designer.
He was 20.
He made this decision despite strong objections from his father who wanted Romain to continue the family tradition and become a naval officer.
Romain assumed his pseudonym to avoid disgracing the family.
Erte, Paris, c.1929.In 1915, he secured his first substantial contract with Harper's Bazaar. Between 1915 and 1937, he designed over 200 covers for the magazine and his illustrations would also appear in Illustrated London News, Cosmopolitan, Ladies' Home Journal and Vogue.
No prizes for guessing this week's weather forecast on these very British isles.
Thank heavens for pattern and colour!
Thank heavens for pattern and colour!
Thursday, 14 July 2011
New Re-use Models for Waste Plastic Packaging
Emma Lundgren, Royal College of Art, 2011.
There is a growing generation of young women designers presenting innovative yet accessible ideas for reusing plastic waste materials as textile.
Employing an array of polymers, from nylon to HDPE, these creations offer exciting new models for re-use, the slowing of disposable materials' metabolisms, localisation and inspiration.
The samples below become all the more significant when we consider the ecological impact of disposable plastics on the environment.
Suzie Crisfield, Chelsea College of Art & Design, UAL, 2008.
Designer Suzie Crisfield mixes virgin silicon with waste plastic materials to create fluid and versatile fabrics.
Suzie Crisfield, Chelsea College of Art & Design, UAL, 2008.
Suzie Crisfield, Chelsea College of Art & Design, UAL, 2008.
In these samples, Suzie offers ideas for combining waste plastic with selvedge and fabric, reinvigorating the work of Luisa Cervese and passing it on another generation.
Suzie Crisfield, Chelsea College of Art & Design, UAL, 2008.
Suzie Crisfield, Chelsea College of Art & Design, UAL, 2008.
Tope Tijani, also a graduate of Chelsea College of Art & Design, takes similar techniques a step further by applying heat-printed plastic to contemporary jewellery.
Her work can re-use plastics and combine it with digital print technology to create 'hybrid' commercial yet coveted pieces:
Tope Tijani, Chelsea College of Art & Design, UAL, 2009.
Tope Tijani, Chelsea College of Art & Design, UAL, 2009.
Look out for Tope's bags that should be stocked at Collette,
in our humble opinion!
Royal College of Art graduate, Jane Bowler, pares down sheet plastic into silhouettes that recall the exotic glamour of Isabella Blow, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano and Antonio Berardi.
Jane Bowler, Royal College of Art, 2010.
Jane Bowler, Royal College of Art, 2010.
Recent Royal College of Art graduate, Jungeun Lee, moulds plastic around a wooden form to create garments that echo the voluminous work of Issey Miyake and Maria Blaisse:
Jungeun Lee, Royal College of Art, 2011.
These young designers build upon the previous generations' work with plastics recycling (see Colin Williamson, Jane Atfield and Emma Neuberg) and bring us closer to interventionist styles of working/making that elevate waste plastic to treasured, even bespoke, artefact.
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Our Next Workshop at the V&A
Eclectic prints by Emma Lundgren, Royal College of Art, 2011.
Eclecticism, postmodernism and engineered prints are working their way into our exciting new plans for the next Slow Textiles/makeitdigital textile design course.
Due to take place exclusively at the V&A, this cutting edge course, Born To Be Wild (and open to everyone), is designed in tandem with the forthcoming blockbuster,
Watch this space.
Techno inspired prints by Emma Lundgren, RCA, 2011.
Engineered prints by Lauren Barfoot, RCA, 2011.
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