Call for International Researchers and Assistants!!

Posted on by Emma Neuberg
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Textile Workers, 
silkscreen print, USSR, circa 1923,
reworked as an animated print by Emma Neuberg, 2011.


If you’re interested in becoming an assitant and or researcher with the Slow Textiles group, please sign up to our London 
October 15th 2011 meeting 
at 2.00pm (GMT+1) 
with webinar participation if you’re not in town!! 


To participate, email!


As part of our on-going research as an independent satellite of the academic research group Textiles Environment Design (TED), we develop themes that build upon the Top Ten Sustainable Textile Design Strategies to take these forward collaboratively into an open access space that can help individual designers, artist groups and makers, at any stage in their development, think about their practice, its meaning, context, offering and promise.

One of several areas that we are looking at is the reanimation of historical textiles as a route to “Dematerialisation” (TED’s Top Ten Design Strategy #9), reinterpretation, education and discourse and “Looking Back To Look Forward” (TTDS #6), as engagement tool to re-examine and re-evaluate textile systems, structures, values and observations that were once in place. These are just two of the TED strategies that we are engaged in!

Ours is an open source activity and you may join us directly by becoming an associate member (associate membership opens October 2011) or participating for free through Facebook’s Comment and Share and the blog’s Comments feature below each post.

This call for assistants and researchers is to further your work – practical and or written – and its direction within ‘slow’, social textiles and or the Slow Textiles Group platform.


On October 15th from 14:00 to 16:45 in person (see Contact Us for London location) or via webinar:

 A FREE Meeting for Future Researchers and Assistants of the Slow Textiles Group!








Plus ça change

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




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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..


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











Slow/Fast Experiments

Posted on by Emma Neuberg

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Pastel and digital prints animated, 
Emma Neuberg, 2011.


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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.




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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/





Postmodernism (Digital) Style and Subversion

Posted on by Emma Neuberg

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 are delighted 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.
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