Thursday, 12 April 2012

Email sent of content to include


Hey guys i have attached all the key emails from Duncan, with all the information and drop box invitation. as well as their names and the basic structure for the year book that we worked out the other day!
Hope this helps, need anything else let me know!
Robyn
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Hi Robyn,

 Paul forwarded me your request for info for the textiles year book. Apologies it is so late but date and time of night, v hectic, still no excuse though, here you go... any probs then feel free to e-mail or pop in.

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Hey Paul,

Hope you are well. Thank you for sending the introduction though, i received it after i saw you yesterday.

I thought i would just send a list through of what we still need by Thursday 29th March:



1. Names

Please find attached excel sheet with these 

2. Emails

We are not putting everyones e-mail address (because loads of them haven't given it) so we are going to use 1 common address and strap line  -this will include a portal web address that takes them to each of their own personal webpages and allow them to have a far greater platform to showcase the work then they could individually have in the book.

We will have it read along the lines of....

 For further information about the course, our values or thhe graduates showcased here then please e-mail: teamtextiles@leeds-art.ac.uk or visit our graduate designers webpages on artsthread which can be found at http://www.artsthread.com/c/leedscollegeofartdesign/printedtextilessurfacepatterndesignBAHons (we'll have to sort out a shorter url though!)

3. 7 Disciplines

(6 here and 1 to follow - they are good to go alhtouh we may edit a word etc to avoid widows or fit your design layouts)

Material Culture

Striving towards reified understanding, we engage in dialogue and investigation of the relationships between the physical artefact, process and contextualisation.  Our journeys with material culture define and legitimatise new approaches and perspectives, from a centric stance, we broaden our considerations of consumption, history, the other, place or material avenues et alia as cognitive and empirical avenues of practice.

Drawing & Colour

Development and design through experiencing the relationship and physical ontology of process. As we communicate our ideas, experiences and ambitions visually, we engage in the origins of the haptic; to wit, the value of the honest labours of drawing, the process and tactility of direct intervention in its broadest contexts. We explore, narrate and resolve, through these the most experiential of processes, with colour and mark, gesture, space and theme, we bring joy, vitality and realised visual harmonies to an otherwise world of discord.

Historical & Conservation

Acknowledging through an ebullient appreciation, our design heritage and history, we as designers identify and locate our practice. From such contextualisation’s we can navigate a journey which embraces and legitimatises our practice. We desire to treasure, honour and preserve this heritage through both the physical artefact and laboured interpretation.

Ecology & Sustainability

Albers, in discussing the ‘Vorkurs’ spoke of the need that “Materials must be worked in such a way that there is no wastage: the chief principle is economy.  The final form arises from the tensions of cut and folded material”
Terms such as upcycling, sustainability, eco and design-futuring underpin the philosophy and considerations of our response to environment within design. Encouraged to explore these values, it is the intention of sustainable design to identify with wider contexts, globally and locally, to explore viable and sensitive practices, to create an aesthetic harmony, in which neither process, material or visual outcome is subordinate in concern.

Slow-Crafting

Xavier Girard referred to ‘...  the intrusion of modernity into the everyday world…’, as society seems to ever increasing lean towards fast production, emphasis on mass, and cheap labour, we seek to reconcile beautiful craftsmanship with production. We denounce the mundane through a celebration, consideration and inventiveness to usher in a new, heralded philosophy of slow-crafting. We engage with a practice beyond mere concepts of ‘hand worked’ against ‘machine, or the time taken to produce an article. It is ephemeral, a respect for process, tradition and quality of craft, aesthetically realised with a richness of applied knowledge.

Culture

We speak of culture in design, its physicality, its modus operandi, its language. We define our physical environment in its constructed purpose-built spaces, cultures of success, we articulate as emerging from strong social and subject discipline values, our language, embedded in the visual recognition of abstraction, expression and reified forms.

Progressive Technologies - to follow later tonight.

4. Blog Adresses

Refer to the e-mails - we will go via the artsthread site as a homepage for all the graduates webpages/blogs and such like.

5. Photographs from the show (if they are on a memory stick, i can come pick them up whenever they're available)

 We have a good number for your consideration and you can either pop along Thurs AM or if you would prefer i can put them in 'dropbox' for your convenience?


Thank you!

Kind Regards,

Robyn Russell

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