Postmodernism (Digital) Style and Subversion

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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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Flash View! New Work for Animated Textiles

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New directions
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:
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Inheritance I,

Emma Neuberg, 
re-animated rayon, 
2010.

Japanese Floral Prints at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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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!

Original Liberty Prints Books 1890 -1910

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Members Melanie Bowles and Emma Neuberg were thrilled to recently spend time at the Liberty’s Archives getting inspiration for the next Slow/Fast Textiles Print workshops.

These new workshops will be at the V&A Museum in April, May and June 2011, to run in conjunction with the new  The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860 – 1900 exhibition.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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