Monday, 31 May 2010

TED Lecture Impact Lectures 2


The Middle of the Life Cycle

  • Consumer use, emotionally durable design.
  • Life cycle of a T- shirt:
  • disposable paper dress, great response to through away fashion and over consumption, short life but can be recycled and re designed!
  • replace the need to consume: make emotionally durable design, co-design
  • promoting a cause, choose an issue to battle and promote your concept

artists and books:
Crowd Sourcing; catwalk genius
the uniform project

Katherine May
  • use peoples old clothes to co-design quilts
  • she works with three other designers sharing a studio- bricolage
  • she used her groing up storie, her love with human cointact and interactions in her business, she created emotionally durable quilts
  • Jonathan Chapman writings inspired her in doing something sustainable
  • she got her idea already at university but only collected thing for it, and she looked at her old sketch book for her actual work
  • recycling factory, in Italy she went and get off cuts
  • during one exhibition the bricolage group were knitting and attracted a lot of attention, people want to talk to you when they see you doing something
  • her inspiration: nine lives project and Becky Early, wedding dress project - up cycling


Digital Design:
BonBon Kakku sell your ideas
Spoon Flower design and print your own fabric
  • computer art
  • facilitator
  • digital print as a bespoke
Digital print:
30% less water
45% less electricity
overall dye wastage




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