Tuesday, 7 January 2014
I started to think about the use of material goods and the industry in which they are made. A shop I visited in a flea market in Paris collected all of its goods from toy factories across France, they were parts of toys that nobody wanted or needed and were going to be discarded. It made me think of the value of toys and what they bring to children in comparison to the people who are making them. The toy industry in China is huge, I wanted to delve into this and learn about the treatment of workers at these toy factories in the poorer parts of China. This resulted in becoming the entire basis of my project and ultimately I designed a campaign around the on-going's of these factories and raising awareness for workers rights.
The work produced and the message put across was conveyed through a website that I designed myself through tumblr, constructing the code and layout and filming, photographing and writing everything in contained.
http://thatsmadeinchina.tumblr.com/
The work produced and the message put across was conveyed through a website that I designed myself through tumblr, constructing the code and layout and filming, photographing and writing everything in contained.
http://thatsmadeinchina.tumblr.com/
Monday, 4 March 2013
Materials
As I am trying to consider two of the TED Ten points (minimizing waste and recycling/up-cycling) I am trying to make this coincide with the project theme of the shop in Paris as well. I have been thinking about factories and the waste they produce each year with unwanted components and faulty objects being sent back or discarded. This got me interested in factories around the UK and I came across a lot of silicone factories.
Silicone rubber is a flexible material so this relates as well. Here a are some initial images of silicone rubber and ideas for materials
Silicone rubber is a flexible material so this relates as well. Here a are some initial images of silicone rubber and ideas for materials
Initial images related to theme/design concept
I really like the placement of imagery and abstract style of Ernesto Artillo
When I think of flexibility within fashion I always think back to Hussein Chalayan's collection of silicone dresses
flex.
Gatherings of images collated in clusters
From Le Pompidou in paris,
interesting materials
Architectural flex
recycled goods
Fusion
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