The People’s Print, DIY Couture & BeFabBeCreative Collaborate with You!

Posted on by Emma Neuberg
The People’s Print amazing FREE downloadable tutorial available here.
STG members and associates at the amazing and totally original DIY Couture and the trailblazing create-open-source-digital-textiles-like-no-other platform The People’s Print are giving YOU the opportunity to design the fabrics for the DIY Couture SS13 Collection!
Not only is this a great design opportunity but with all the contacts between DIY Couture+The People’s Print (and the Great British digital printers BeFabBeCreative), if you win, who knows where you might go!
All you need is collage papers, scissors, a mobile phone and your FREE trial copy of Adobe Photoshop (if you don’t have Photoshop already) and in Ten Easy Steps you’ll learn how to create a stunning repeat pattern.
For full details go here.
The People’s Print FREE downloadable tutorial available here!

 

Pattern, Textiles & Fashion on Film

Posted on by Emma Neuberg
Quentin Jones for Kenzo Pre-Fall 2012

 

You may have noticed that we embrace animation and film narratives as integral to contemporary textiles practice. This is because textiles manifest time and story-telling in their very DNA. Even digital code is textiles inasmuchas each pixel echoes the needlepoint stitch or punchcard hole in order to make the image whole.

Last year we showcased our resident textile animator Tania Grace Knuckey’s witty, subtle and evocative textile animations at our Slow Studio Cinema event. Knuckey says: “I have to put timelines into textiles to bring them alive!”

Have a look through London designer Quentin Jones’ amazing sequences and visit the Slow Studio on April 20th to see more of this inspirational and exciting genre!

 

Quentin Jones for Nowness 2012
Quentin Jones for Penhaligon 2012
Quentin Jones for Holly Fulton 2012
 
 
 
 

Slow Textiles is Delighted to Announce the Launch of their Geometric Season!

Posted on by Emma Neuberg
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Slow Textiles manipulate the lovely David Saunders’ knitwear: d a v i d d a v i d

We are delighted to announce that over the next few months we are running a collective research project incorporating several Slow Textiles Group members dedicated to an exploration of the geometric form in textiles.
All our workshops, including those on May 19th, July 14th and November 3rd 2012 are dedicated to the theme as well as our exciting first group shows. 
Papers, essays and short films are also being produced on the subject, so watch this space or join us to get involved.

What do geometrics mean to you?


Plus ça change

Posted on by Emma Neuberg

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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/