Textile Environment Design: D-Day

Old T-Shirt Before & Old T-Shirt After



Textiles Environment Design (TED) is a Research Group based at Chelsea College of Art & Design. I am a PhD student there and was lucky enough to participate within one of their workshops last Friday.

The Workshop titled 'D-Day' defined durability day and was inspired by the recent Martin Margiela exhibition hosted at Sommerset House, London.

Using a variety of different print techniques a collection of old garments were transformed. I really enjoyed this workshop experience and was amazed at how quickly old garments could be transformed into something new and desirable.

I transformed an old t-shirt that I no longer wore due to damage and stains (images above). You can see some of the other work produced on the TED and Make it Digital.

The full report and next event will be documented on the TED blog.

EThOS - electronic thesis online access

I just would like to share with you a small PhD tip. The British Library is providing an online access to most of PhD thesis published in UK. You have to register for that but most of theses thesis are available under digital form for free. This is a very valuable resource, accessible from here.

Busy September for Puff & Flock

Puff & Flock are pleased to announce a host of events and activities during the London Design Festival, September 2010.

Once again joining their friends Designersblock exhibiting in their show at the Bargehouse, London and Puff & Flock is very excited to be joined by a wealth of guest design talent in The Puff & Flock Parlour.

First up they have recent MA Textile Futures graduate, Suphichaya Vanasirkul, creating her Stressionary installation for the amusement of over stressed workers. Secondly Spanish design talent Andere Monjo will be showcasing some furniture pieces and selling her intriguing Ice Rocks Candles in the Puff & Flock shop. These two designers join installations by Puff & Flockers, Elisabeth Buecher, Jenny Leary, Jo Angell, Kathy Schicker and Melissa French.

Debuted in Milan to great success, the Puff & Flock shop makes its first appearance in London for the occasion of Designersblock. We have collected designers from all over the world alongside home grown talent, stocking a range of high quality goods from crochet eyeballs to mushroom hooks and beautiful ceramics. Our very own Amelie Labarthe will be selling jewellery and toys as design duo The Smths.

Crochet Eyeballs by Monstifiy
Mushroom Hooks by Masako Sato
Paper Rings by Yuko Taguchi
Games and T-shirts by Grit Hartung
Cushions and Textiles by Jo Angell
Jewellery by April 23
Super Chick Chic by Marilou Rabourdin
Ceramics by Kedo and Rondo
Toys and Jewellery by The Smths

Puff & Flock are also part of the Late night V&A event 'Two's a Pair', Friday 24th September 18:30 - 22:00. Elisabeth Buecher has designed and made a range of 'Siamese Accessories' costumes for two people wear at the same time as well as a magnetic attraction costume by Jenny Leary. Come join the fun and have your photo taken and leave with a commemorative sticker!

Puff & Flock's Jenny Leary is also taking part in the Anti Design Festival in a 30 minute performonstartion entitled "When Crafting Leads to Hacking" on Monday 20th Sept. Please join the audience as we demonstrate how to read encrypted information. Jenny Leary and Mimmo Belcuore will show the shape of magnetic fields embedded in data cards, and we will need public volunteers!

We are proud to announce that we are one of the winners of the MyDeco Design Democracy Awards. Watch out for our posts on the My Deco blog for the duration of The London Design Festival 2101.

Find out more on www.puffandflock.com

Domestic Space: An interdisciplinary research site on houses, homes and gardens

Our friends from the SSN network have just mentionned in their last newsletter what seems to be an interesting source for references about the domestic space:

Domestic Space: An interdisciplinary research site on houses, homes and gardens - A project within the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, the site has its origins in a workshop, Rethinking Domestic Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Home and Garden, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, November 1998. Includes an extensive, searchable bibliography, an international events calendar and a collection of useful links.

You can access this database via this link

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