Showing posts with label textile design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label textile design. Show all posts

Friday, 20 September 2019

cromacolour


week 1 at NUA and this year's year 1 students have been wonderful - a great sense of energy is in the room - we have spent the week getting to know each other in and out of the building - A day in Cromer was glorious - the weather helped but the thinking was good and a day with colour yesterday demonstrated a strong sense of intuitive thinking - It's looking like they will be a good year.
meanwhile Season 2 of big little lies is all about will they get found out? after who did it? - and as everybody is fairly obnoxious or at best unlikable its odd that you care about whether they do. Sometimes, always, never - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5068162/?ref_=rvi_tt  - a lovely Bill Nighy experience of a film, written by the wonderful Edwyn Collins. Late Night - tries hard but is just ok, the end shot in the writers room is almost ridiculous. Dead in a weak - a moving English dark comedy but the ending is not Richard Curtis.  Fast and Furious presents Hobbs and Shaw - best to hold on to anything fixed down as I don't think this film slows down to 70mph at any point - a winner (but utterly preposterous obviously - it is Fast and Furious).


Tuesday, 26 September 2017

interiorsarego

it's been a busy week teaching on the Textile Design Course at NUA - year 1 arrived and their 1 day project was full of colour and surface - what is textiles? - what isn't it? without it you would be alone naked in a field.... to illustrate the overwhelming importance of textiles in the first day we covered fine art, illustration, fashion, architecture, interior design and fashion communication! the new instagram # is #nuatextiles year 3 had a whole day of year and project briefings, NSS briefing and Learning outcomes briefing but I tried to deliver it through work-shopping - the first project is interiors https://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/003a-25-09-17-briefing-ba3a-project-2-interiors so am looking forward to some exciting work.

Thursday, 22 September 2016

whatisinpetmince?

a great day of structural thinking on the MA Book Arts on tuesday - some excellent folding and conceptual bookness went on. http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/001-a-what-is-book-bookness-2016 as part of Southbank Centre Young Adult Literature Weekender some students from Camberwell MA Book Arts - Muqiu, Lena and Charlotte are running a workshop at the South Bank Centre - it will be good - go get involved.
I'm working for Open College of the Arts on a really interesting project - supporting final year MA Fine Art students in creating an online exhibition - thinking of using www.isthisitisthisit.com  as an example of good practice.
thursday saw the induction workshop and day at NUA - the whole week exists as an instagram feed #gotextiles check it out.
meanwhile the film The Brothers Grimsby manages to envisage and then enact scenarios that I could not even conceive of - this is not necessarily a good thing but it is a series of open mouth is-that-really-happening-moments