The beginnings of our trad/tech textile conjuncture

Japanese textile motif,

animated print,

Emma Neuberg, 2011.

Plus ça change

Summer Sales,
digital surface pattern inspired by Horace Taylor's 1926 poster,
Emma Neuberg, 2011.





Horace Taylor, 

The Electric Railway Company,
London, 1926


This is British designer, Horace Taylor's poster (animated by Emma Neuberg) encouraging women in the suburbs to get into town via the London Underground and "buy British"!

Taking a closer look at the ladies' hats (especially the one on the far right), and the designs on sale, they pre-date Nathalie du Pasquier's postmodern designs for Memphis by fifty years. (Not to mention nu rave).


Here they have been rearranged to create a digital narrative with history and humour. The experiments continue..



Summer Sales Circle,
digital surface pattern inspired by Horace Taylor's 1926 poster,
Emma Neuberg, 2011

Slow/Fast Experiments

Pastel and digital prints animated, 

Emma Neuberg, 2011.

Experiment 1: Slow Hues,
Pastel and digital print animated, 
Emma Neuberg, 2011.

Over the next few weeks, we are experimenting at the juncture where slow, traditional, hand processes meet fast digitised ones to stimulate dialogue on surface pattern and new hybrid forms. 


The aim, loosely, is to combine old with new, tradition with technology, in ways that offer new creative textile possibilities and textured digital forms.





Experiment 2: Slow Lace Hues,
Pastel and digital print animated, Emma Neuberg, 2011.




To see more examples of Emma's digital sketchbook go to
http://www.emmaneuberg.blogspot.com/

A British Floral Print Moment

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Holly Fowler, 2011.

We're having a flora and fauna escapist day celebrating some of the wondrous digital prints coming from British designers in 2011.

Building upon a tradition of floral regalia, all these Central Saint Martins' graduates are breaking new ground not only taking the genre to new heights but transforming the silhouette.

Holly Fowler, 2011.

Holly Fowler, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Stella McCartney, resort 2011.

Stella McCartney, resort 2011.

Stella McCartney, resort 2011.

Stella McCartney, resort 2011.

Stella McCartney, resort 2011.

Postmodernism (Digital) Style and Subversion

Jean-Paul Goude styles Grace Jones, front over of PHOTO, France, c.1981.

Slow Textiles and Make It Digital join forces to create 
The People's Print
and we aredelighted to announce that as such we will be attending the Postmodernism ball in celebration of our latest textile design course at the V&A, London.