As my friends baby is on its way, I decided to get creative making a few little gifts. An owl made from a recycled dress and a little matching illustration!
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Baby's Arrival
As my friends baby is on its way, I decided to get creative making a few little gifts. An owl made from a recycled dress and a little matching illustration!
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Sass Brown lecture
A fantastic lecture on eco fashion delivered by Sass Brown, the director of the overseas progamme at the fashion institute of technology, alongside being a professor.
Alyor calculated by 2050 we need to reduce are emissions by 20-50%, however it is thought emissions will actually increase by 60%. Often people ask, why fashion? How will fashion change this?
Textiles employ a 6th of the worlds population.
This introduction lead onto a number of points Sass Covered.
- Ecological fabrication and slow design.
- Recycle, reuse, redesign.
- Community and fair trade
- New Models
- Designer Initiatives
Sass finished with an interesting point, peoples mindset needs to be shifted. Cheap fast fashion is not actually cheap. The REAL cost needs to be explained and we all need to move back to the investment concept adopted by our mothers and Grandmothers. The idea of saving money and buying expensive long lasting pieces is something that our Grandparents would have done, that generation is not far gone and we need to continue with that way of thinking, but the damage of cheap, fast fashion may have had a longer lasting effect.
Alyor calculated by 2050 we need to reduce are emissions by 20-50%, however it is thought emissions will actually increase by 60%. Often people ask, why fashion? How will fashion change this? Textiles employ a 6th of the worlds population.
This introduction lead onto a number of points Sass Covered.
- Ecological fabrication and slow design.
- Recycle, reuse, redesign.
- Community and fair trade
- New Models
- Designer Initiatives
Sass finished with an interesting point, peoples mindset needs to be shifted. Cheap fast fashion is not actually cheap. The REAL cost needs to be explained and we all need to move back to the investment concept adopted by our mothers and Grandmothers. The idea of saving money and buying expensive long lasting pieces is something that our Grandparents would have done, that generation is not far gone and we need to continue with that way of thinking, but the damage of cheap, fast fashion may have had a longer lasting effect.
Monday, 26 September 2011
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Abigail Ryan
Liberty's Blog
Read the interview here.
Drawing
Whilst I have been chilling out in Germany I have been trying to get my drawing passion back on top form.
Not quite reached old levels yet.... but heres some new stuff.
Monday, 19 September 2011
Cologne
Cologne, or Koln as the Germans say is Dusseldorf's rival city. I took a day trip here whilst in Germany. Nice city, shops, German culture, yet another cathedral and plenty of museums!
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Dusseldorf in 1 hour
If you don't have much time to spend visiting the sights of Dusseldorf, there is a handy 1 hour tour available in the guides. All the places and sights are reachable on food and you can do it any time.
Follow Konigsalle and visit Stilwerk, a center for design fanatics, the Ko moat along side the boulavard of magnification design shops before meeting slim Matilda on the corner, one of Germany's oldest meeting points. From here you get to see Germany's first high rise office block, Wilhelm-Marx-House and gallerie Kaufhof, the first department store. If you continue along the walk you will see the most beautiful baroque church, St. Andreas. Once you meet markplatz where the town hall sits you will see a monument of the elector Jan Wellem high on his horse. Take a quick peak at the Rhine before heading to Carlstadt, an exquisite quarter of museums and galleries including the film museum, het-jens-museum of ceramics and for a more profound insight into Dusseldorf's history, the Stadt museum. Walking back to the Rhine and heading North, you will reach the Rheinturm, once of Europe's largest TV towers before hitting the media harbour where you will find architecture from Frank O'Gehry.
If you don't have much time to spend visiting the sights of Dusseldorf, there is a handy 1 hour tour available in the guides. All the places and sights are reachable on food and you can do it any time.
Follow Konigsalle and visit Stilwerk, a center for design fanatics, the Ko moat along side the boulavard of magnification design shops before meeting slim Matilda on the corner, one of Germany's oldest meeting points. From here you get to see Germany's first high rise office block, Wilhelm-Marx-House and gallerie Kaufhof, the first department store. If you continue along the walk you will see the most beautiful baroque church, St. Andreas. Once you meet markplatz where the town hall sits you will see a monument of the elector Jan Wellem high on his horse. Take a quick peak at the Rhine before heading to Carlstadt, an exquisite quarter of museums and galleries including the film museum, het-jens-museum of ceramics and for a more profound insight into Dusseldorf's history, the Stadt museum. Walking back to the Rhine and heading North, you will reach the Rheinturm, once of Europe's largest TV towers before hitting the media harbour where you will find architecture from Frank O'Gehry.
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