Reiko Sudo and Slow Textiles Group Founder, Emma Neuberg, will Introduce the New Show Japanese Style: Sustaining Design on March 31st!!

You're invited to join Reiko Sudo and Dr Emma Neuberg among several preminent British slow textiles practitioners at the opening event of the fabulous new exhibition, Japanese Style: Sustaining Design at the Ruthin Craft Centre in Wales: japanseasonwales - Home.

Emma will present her textiles work that marries tradition with new technologies. She will talk about her passion for slow textiles and slow design and introduce her new venture, The Slow Design School, and its aims and vision for British and European craft.

She'll also showcase the best of the Slow Textiles Group practitioners.

Further details on the Ruthin Craft Centre shortly: Croeso i Oriel Canolfan Grefft Rhuthun / Welcome to Ruthin Craft Centre.

Hope to see you there!

What Social Outcome does your Design Strategy Have? Open Lectures and Debate Start March 24th 2012 at Slow Studio, London

What fuels humans between the ages of 16 and 36 to discard millions of tonnes of clothing, shoes and accessories across the globe each year?

British philosopher, Alain de Botton, suggests a significant contributing factor is 'status anxiety'. 

He lists five cultural contributors to status anxiety. These are lovelessness, snobbery, expectation, meritocracy and dependency. 

These are socially driven dynamics. 

As a human being and a creative, how will you create designs, systems and services that address the destructive aspect of these cultural traits? How can your design skills intervene and stall systems of  lovelessness, snobbery, expectation, meritocracy and dependency?

The Slow Design Lectures & Seminars start March 24th 2012 in London.

Book your place to start the conversation HERE!

To Celebrate Climate Week, Earlybird Discounts All Week!!

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To get the best earlybird Climate Week discounts on all our workshops, lectures, seminars, film showings, discussion groups and presentations, become a member first then book your favourite events!

Once the early bird offer expires on Monday 19th March, we introduce a flash new streamlined booking system! 

V&A Textiles Archives Reinterpreted

Violet Daisy, Digital Animation, Emma Neuberg, 2012.

Here at the Slow Studio, London, we have been working  on a research project (between Chelsea College of Art and the V&A) that builds upon our passion for the trad-tech convergence and trajectory.

We have been studying the traditional stencil prints of 1920s Paris used for fashion and interiors and reinterpreting the original artwork and swatchbooks through digital imaging.

The final collection of new textiles will be presented in silk swatchbooks and animated digital sequences.

The launch of the collection and the exhibtion will be during the Chelsea Flower Show in London.

Watch this space!