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Fashion Bags and Accessories Design and Production
No full textFashion Bags and Accessories explores fashion bags and related accessories, such as purses, wallets, clutches, cases, gloves and belts, through various approaches to creative design, product development, technological innovation, materials development, component design (hardware) and branding. Readers will become familiar with key constructions - T base, Turned, Bucket or Baguette bags and gain grounding in both traditional craft-making techniques and contemporary digital manufacturing process. Traditional accessory materials like leather are considered alongside new and emerging sustainable materials. Key elements of fashion bags and accessories like component design, signature branding and logo design are also covered in depth.
Primarily aimed at students on fashion design, product design, or specialized accessories courses, the book will also be a go-to reference for professionals wishing to move into or evolve in this product area. Accessories, in particular bags and items related to wearable technology, are a rapidly growing and innovative area of fashion design.
This book covers the design of a wide range of bags - not just all the different handbag styles but key pieces such as luggage, cases, backpacks, satchels, weekenders, as well as wallets, document holders, pouches etc.
The designs featured are feminine, masculine, and genderless, and all beautifully illustrated through archival photography, exclusive artwork and especially commissioned technical drawings
Writer Conversations: Max Houghton
No full textWriter Conversations offers a lively and engaging analysis of the practice of writing on photography. Composed as interviews with highly distinctive writers at the forefront of discourses and debates around visual culture, it provides sustained exploration into the processes and motivations that have given rise to an array of critical commentary and intellectual histories shaping the understanding, appreciation and study of photography today
Archiving Memories through Art - Dinner Among Five People on 26th May, a biannual documentary project initiated by Boie Wog and Sam Tam
Get PDFDinner Among Five People on 26th May is a documentary that records several dinner gatherings among five young adults who are from Hong Kong. It takes place once every two years, always on the same date. The participants are individuals who have, in various ways, participated in the pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong from 2012 to now. Throughout the dinners, they would recall fragmented memories of what had happened in Hong Kong in recent years and discuss the current situation and plans for the future. Each gathering lasts roughly two hours, and the conversations among them grow naturally without planned agendas. This work, initiated by Boie Wog and Sam Tam, is a long-term one that has been running biannually since mid-2017. Over the span of 6 years, from 2017 to 2019, four sets of documentation have been completed; the project is aimed to be carried out for at least 20 years. The first version of this work was exhibited in Network, an exhibition organised by RAGE Collective, which took place at MOVEMENT Worcester, United Kingdom, in 2017. The work has also been exhibited in other parts of the UK, Canada, and Korea in museums, art galleries, and art spaces. It has received media and press coverage in various parts of the world. The hosts have also been invited to speak about the ideology of the project in public lectures, conferences, and artists’ talks
Sotheby's
Get PDFEntry on the international auction house Sotheby's in 'Bloomsbury Art Markets'. The first scholarly guide of its kind online, this new digital resource is specially designed to serve the expanding research areas of art market studies, art historiography and provenance research
Today is Always Yesterday: Contemporary Brazilian Art
Get PDFToday Is Always Yesterday explores the historical constructs underlying contemporary art in Brazil. Through his study of the South American nation’s colonial and post-colonial condition, Michael Asbury argues that art can not only illustrate history but activate it. The colours of the flag, a national emblem saturated with symbolism and which has become central to the culture wars of recent years, become devices to thematically structure the five chapters of the book. Asbury shows how artists have responded to cultural engagements and appropriations, and examines art’s role in unravelling Brazil’s foundational myths and its projected image as a racial melting pot. Richly illustrated, this book presents a compelling account of contemporary debates in Brazilian art
Material INTO Practice, Practice ONTO Body and OUT TO Space; Exploration of sequins as a spatial concept through a new embellishment technique
Get PDFThis practice-led PhD study brings together research about the history, materiality, and development of fashion embellishment, with a particular emphasis on sequins for the first time. It is an interdisciplinary PhD study using cultural studies, art histories, fashion practice and theory, and it expands the subject of embellishment to include sculptural methods as tools, selected fashion theory, spatial theory, and Derridean notions of ‘supplementarity’. This research foregrounds fashion practice to conceptualise the understanding of fashion embellishment for the first time using these selected tools and theories.
The practice produced for this study expands traditional embellishment by adapting sculptural tools for the first time to make visible the proxemic spaces that surround the body. This new embellishment technique, ‘the tensegrity technique’, embodies notions of space and fashion theory and discusses how clothing, and by extension embellishment when used on a garment, draws a en on to how we occupy and move through the space of the world.
This thesis is driven by four distinct themes; ‘material’, ‘practice’, ‘body’, and ‘space’: from a considera on of the materials of fashion embellishment I move on to consider how they are used in prac ce and how, through garments and fashion, they are applied to the body; the materials and practice then extend beyond the parameters of the body and extend out to space. These four themes are the ‘building blocks’ of this study.
The ‘into’, ‘onto’ and ‘out to’ in the title of this project describes the journey of embellishment from loose components to three-dimensional volume applied to the garment and body to explore space. The materials of embellishment, components, and the base fabric, are converted into practice by hand; sequins are attached to fabric with thread. This practice is then applied onto the body via the carrier garment. The garment and body extend out to space through the development of a new embellishment technique. The above themes and prepositions enable this conceptualisation using a methodology prioritising practice underpinned by theory, and ‘design as research’. This project redefines and expands the understanding of what embellishment means and how it can be used spatially, with a novel and innovative methodology of employing sequins, thread, and beads to develop a sculptural form of embellishment that simultaneously defines the personal space of the wearer
Merchbau
No full textA group exhibition curated by Tom Cardwell and Juan Bolivar
Where merch becomes art and art becomes merch
Merchbau presents a selection of artworks and artist’s multiples as an exploration of the intersection between artwork, merchandise, spectacle and gallery. The title references Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau, an evolving installation packed with sculptures that itself became a total artwork, before it was destroyed by bombing in 1943.
Merch stands are a common fixture at gigs and form a key part of metal music culture. Fans collect merch to show their allegiances, and merch sales are an important income stream for musicians following the decline in sales of recorded music.
Like merz, merch is all around us, it’s the stuff of life that commemorates our existence. Like art, merch is sold and collected. Raising revenue and bolstering support for artists.
The artworks in this show offer connections to metal culture through iconography that charts the human condition, and through the mercantile ritual of the merch stand. The gallery will be transformed into the Merchbau, an immersive environment of art and metal.
Merchbau presents artworks-as-merch, a selection of unique works as well as limited-edition multiples, from paintings to patches, from t-shirts to prints
Ten Texts on Sculpture 3: Phyllida Barlow
No full textThe third of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode we talk about Phyllida Barlow’s proposal from 2012 for her Tate Britain Commission in 2014. We also talk about Barlow’s ‘The Hatred of the Object’ from 1997 and ‘Hearsay, Rumours, Bed-sit Dreamers and Art Begins Today’ from 2004. It’s basically a big love in for Barlow as an artist who writes towards making rather than theorising. Andrea and Matt talk about vitrines, art made for Instagram, and theatricality (again)
Traces: Stories of Migration
No full textLucy Orta’s Portrait Gallery is comprised of forty-seven portraits of local residents from East London using textile and textile crafts as a medium. The portraits were created in response to a two-year community engagement project entitled Traces: Stories of Migration, as a means through which the human condition is discussed, shared, and expressed collectively.
During the community engagement phase of the project (between 2021 and 2023), 70 residents from the boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets took part in a seven-week programme of creative workshops that encouraged storytelling, experimental textile design, sharing craft heritage and reciprocal learning. The key aim was to engage cross culturally through the topic of migration, recognising the creative value of diversity through peoples lived experience and support underrepresented people's ideas and visibility. Each migration story was different, yet participants found themselves connected through the threads of experience; coming to terms with the physical act of abandoning, the psychological and emotional impact of the move, the indelible marks left as a consequence of the uprooting – the leaving behind of loved ones and familiar surroundings that can lead to feelings of displacement and disorientation; the gradual adjustment to new a new culture, new friendships, raising a family, discovering a new meaning of home.
The workshop activities supported the realisation two key outcomes, A) ‘Story Cloths’ - 64 original 2D and 3D textile artefacts created by each of the participants. B) Lucy Orta’s ‘Portrait Gallery’ - a likeness of each participant crafted into a portrait using a technique developed during the process, namely embroidery-applique in organza fabric to depict the characteristics of each person. The portrait is framed by an interpretation of the participant’s Story Cloth using different textile techniques digital print, hand and machine embroidery, crochet, stencil.
Secondary outcomes include a book of poetry, documentary film and photography, a catalogue with critical essays and an evaluation report. The project concluded with two public facing exhibitions in East London: Nunnery Gallery (2 June – 27 August 2023) and LCF, UAL East Bank (2 October 2023 – 19 January 2024)
“What They Love About Sports Is What I Love About Esports”: How Esports Factors into Australian National Identity
Get PDFPerhaps more than any other country, conventional sport holds strong cultural significance in Australia, particularly in relation to Australian national identity. The eventual succession of Australian sporting teams over British teams in the nineteenth century created one of the first key distinctions between colonial “Britions” raised in Australia and those in Great Britain, creating an early national identity centred around sporting prowess (White, 1981; Horton, 2000). It is unsurprising that this intrinsic identification through sport has permeated into Australian esports fandom and spectatorship. Drawing on two ethnographic studies, one conducted across two major 2017 Sydney esports events and the other conducted in 2018 at a Melbourne esports bar, this chapter will explore how Australian esports fans perform “Australianness” to authenticate their esports spectatorship and construct themselves as authentic esports spectators