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.

Electronic Fabric Experiments

Here at Slow Textiles we are experimenting with electronic fabric samples. 
It's playtime at the moment!

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.

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:

Flowers and Festivals - Four Seasons in Japanese Prints.

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:

Flowers and Festivals - Four Seasons in Japanese Prints slideshow!

How cute is this?

Summer Lovin'

Erte, Paris, c.1929.

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!