By the Sea
15 November 2012 The images from our Whitstable shoot are back – am really happy with the finished look we created for the denim bags. Images: Robert Self Styling: Amy Neill Make up: Rose Magnall
digital textiles & memory
24 February 2013 The lovely Mel Bowles, the co-author of Digital Textiles and co-founder of People’s Print, has asked me to collaborate on a small project for her next book. We will be working on a digital patchwork inspired...
Crafting the Future conference
5 February 2013 My paper ‘We Are Disruptive: New Practices for Fashion/Textile Designers in the Supply Chain’ has been accepted for the 10th EAD Crafting the Future Design Conference in Gothenburg in April. This is my first time at a proper peer-reviewed conference so I am excited and apprehensive! I’ll be attending with my fab...
Factory of the Future
18 December 2012 I have written a piece for the UAL’s Textile Futures Research Centre (TFRC) new publication Material Futures, available to buy now from the TFRC website, edited by Becky Earley, and art direction by Franklin Till. Titled ‘Dream Factory’, I was asked to explore...
Bringing Home the Art – Deptford X (2012)
‘Bringing Home the Art’ was curated by Holly Stevenson and references Martha Rosler’s series ‘Bringing Home the War’. The show attempted to consider the notion of art and domesticity in relation to the ethos of the Deptford X Fringe Festival. It was a collaboration between the Salvation Army shop in Deptford and the artists, with...
Talking about design
23 November 2012 I have given a few small presentations of my research in the last few weeks that have helped me to keep thinking and re formulating how I communicate my project. I was asked to present my Design for Change denim work at a presentation on a new UAL project called More than...
Sharing skills with video
23 November 2012 I made a short video last year on ‘How To Blockprint’ after a few workshops I ran with Katherine May of bricolage. The video has no sound, and I have been waiting to find the perfect music, but in the meantime I will share it here.
By the Sea
15 November 2012 The images from our Whitstable shoot are back – am really happy with the finished look we created for the denim bags. Images: Robert Self Styling: Amy Neill Make up: Rose Magnall
Hong Kong
2 October 2012 I have been in Hong Kong, lecturing and workshopping at the Hong Kong Design Institute. I did a TED’s TEN workshop with one group of fashion students and presented my PhD research and Design for Change denim project. I met Christina from ReDress, an amazing organisation who are promoting textile recycling in...
Fashion shoot
20 August 2012 I’m working with up and coming fashion photographer and stylist team Robert Self and Amy Neill (image above from their portfolio) on shooting the denim duffel bags I produced for the ‘Design for Change’ project. I’ve been very inspired recently by the English seaside, in all its unpredictability and moods, and particularly...
PhD
MISTRA Future Fashion project (2011 – 2015) TED /Chelsea College of Art & Design Funded by MISTRA Sweden This PhD project will explore how a textile designer can bring about change in a fashion textile supply chain, through utilising a range of sustainable design strategies that will be based on, and developed from TED’s ten strategies,...
Layered Design Thinking Workshops (TED)
I have been involved in devising and delivering the ‘Layered Design Thinking’ Workshops that emerged out of the Worn Again/Upcycled Textiles research project at TED. Participants are introduced to the different design strategies for sustainability developed by TED – both the ‘hard’ aspects (material/process choice, etc) and the ‘softer’, more conceptual aspects, such as looking...
Design for Change (2012)
Design for Change: a model for a design-led social enterprise concept for a clothing brand Commissioned by VF Corp. (US) for Innovation Summit, North Carolina, March 2012 With a commission from a large US clothing company via TED, I was asked to consider new ideas around social enterprise models and philanthropy for the garment industry. I...
