February 2009
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Feb 5th
January 2009
3 posts
Manifesto
Manifesto -noun, plural –toes. A public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization. My manifesto follows from the ideals and concepts proposed for our society, in response to the dire state of the environment, by Vivienne Westwood’s, “Active Resistance to Propaganda”. I pose a subsequent statement, which works along...
Jan 29th
Westwoods new camp-pagne... with PAM! →
Jan 28th
Designer Hussein Chalayan →
Jan 28th
November 2008
8 posts
Vivienne Westwood's Manifesto.
i have gone through the manifesto in detail, and identified the key elements i find crucial to my project, and also personally interesting. here i have listed quotes from the manifesto, and my response. Westwood on the manifesto: it penetrates to the root of the human predicament and offers the underlying solution. We have a choice: to become more cultivated, and therefore more human; – or by not...
Nov 29th
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Project Outline...
In June I attended a reading of Vivienne Westwood’s Manifesto, “Active Resistance to Propaganda”. The key ideas within the piece resonated with me, and have influenced the growth of my work since. Put most simply, I see the key point of the manifesto being that only by embracing a new, more environmentally friendly way of life, will we be able to remedy the damage our civilization has done to the...
Nov 26th
Artist References, cont...
Both my theretical and practical work has been influenced by a wide range of artists, working in various mediums of art and design: Floria Sigismondi http://www.floriasigismondi.com/ Bill Henson http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/18/Bill_Henson/ David Carson http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/ Rob Sheridan http://www.rob-sheridan.com/ Kirsten Glass http://kirstenglass.com/ Natasha Kerr...
Nov 26th
Artist Influences...
Some of the images below in my mood board are fairly unclear… so here is a list of the artist who’s work i used: Alexander McQueen (the collage in the top left) Marcel Dzama Scott Traveleayen Jonathan Hernandez Capital John Stezaker Simon Foxton Richard Prince Cai Quo-Qiang Camille Rose Garcia Femke Hiemstra Oksana Badrak Mike Rea The Fashion labels are: McQueen Prada ...
Nov 26th
Nov 23rd
more technologies...
this week i became familiar with Philips LUMAlive. http://www.lumalive.com/business/ i have emailed the NYC stockist to see if they are willing to donate any samples to me, or to order a price list. as yet i have had no response. i missed the SwitchCraft launch, but have been looking at the work of Costello http://threeminds.organic.com/2008/10/switch_craft_batterypowered_cr.html finally (for...
Nov 13th
Final projects...
With the exception of Motion Graphics, i am going to use this project as the starting point for both Python and Interface final projects. i will be exploring how useful Python could be as a means to represent art work on screens intorporated into fashion garments. at the moment, i have no idea how successful or unsuccessful this will be. i don’t think Python is the ideal language to...
Nov 13th
concepting...
Westwood manifesto:- Encourage people to transform to an eco friendly lifestyle… not seeing it as a punishment for the lifestyle choices of their predecessors, but as a whole new way of life. This way of life should be a celebration. A life with the goal of deeming experience and knowledge. Celebrating art, culture, and knowledge, and the common goal being the exchange of there as the...
Nov 3rd
October 2008
4 posts
reposting images from the last less successful...
ok, this is another attempt at the mind map image 1 -  image 2 -  Image 03 - 
Oct 29th
progressssssss...
SO, after our skype conversation, i started thinking about environmental lifestyle vs environmnetal materials, and where these two overlap… now as far as the technology being environmentally friendly, i haven’t quite gotten to researching that yet, but i have had a few thoughts about garments and apropriate materials that could be used to make them environmentally friendly: ...
Oct 24th
posted on class blog (recap)
I have a blog which i am posting unstructured ramblings and ideas before i taint the order of this communal space. <a href=”http://fashionabletechnology.tumblr.com/”> fashionable technology </a> i have been researching Vivienne Westwoods manifesto:- <a href=”http://www.activeresistance.co.uk/manifesto.html”> Manifesto </a> and as he was one of the...
Oct 10th
in the beginning...
This is going to be the site of all the ramblings that will, theoretically, mold into my fashionable textiles project. There’s something comforting in the cycle of Goldsmiths bringing me to Parsons. Textiles to Design and Technlogy, then design and technlogy to textiles. the beginnings of my project are floating in the eather of two on going personal dialogues i’ve been enjoying for...
Oct 3rd