Join us for our first Pussy Hat Project Knit In inspired by the Pussy Hat Project USA!
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“We Love to Introduce our Cultural Analyses for Brands, Museums & Institutions!”
We publish cultural analyses and content for brands, museums and institutions. With our impressive…
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Craftsmanship At Chanel Metiers D’Art
1200 Textile Designers Graduate in the UK this Week
Cambodian textile workers took to the streets to protest their low wages on 1st May 2013 and some of them were fired by Nike within a month. Last month Cambodian textile workers took to the streets for their May Day demonstrations on work, pay and conditions. One of them is seen here holding up…
Read MoreGarment Factory in Flames on May 8th 2013
Worker looks through Atmosphere (PRIMARK) and Cedarwood State stock at the Tung Hai sweater factory, Bangladesh, on May 9th 2013. On May 8th another garment factory went up in flames in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Fortunately, the fire broke out in the middle of the night so that garment workers were not there. However, a meeting was…
Read More“The workers suffer because they never defend each other. They’re scared of what the managers will do.” Where there is corruption there is fear. Where there is fear there is more corruption. How much do we tolerate and what do we want to put in place? Further reading here and here.
Read MoreA New Design Assignment!
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Read MoreWe Loved our Day with Paul Smith, Margaret Howell and Vince Cable Supporting the March of the Makers!
We spent a wonderful day with Paul Smith, Margaret Howell, Brooks Brothers, Members of…
Read MoreThe Future of Sustainable Design in the UK?!!
The Slow Textiles Group says take a good, long look at the Design Council’s thinkers of the future of sustainable design in the UK: Now practise your image analysis skills on the pics from the Design Council’s Design Summit, 2011: Lastly, Dr Emma Neuberg renames the Design Council’s Design Technology in Schools promotional video, “Creative Britain in Reverse?,”…
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