The Rebirth of a Forgotten Cambodian Art

Turning The Art World Inside Out (HD, with subs)

This is one of the most inspiring and motivating films that I have seen in a very long time. The struggle between creativity and mental illness is very real for so many people.

BoF Voices | Fashion’s Fourth Industrial Revolution

Illustrating Patterns: Creating Hand-Drawn Wallpaper, by Julia Rothman

Illustrating Patterns: Creating Hand-Drawn Wallpaper

An Online Skillshare Class by Julia Rothman

The Genius of Design 5 - Objects of Desire (2009)

DESIGN TALKS (Japan) Happiness

Jiseung/Noyeokgae: paper weaving

FASHION & SUSTAINABILITY, Sass Brown

The Next Black - A film about the Future of Clothing

Interview with Issey Miyake's Yoshiyuki Miyamae on 3D stretch seam fashion technology

"It looks like origami but it's folded by steam, not by hand," said Miyamae. "It's not created by a mould or pre-formed or anything, everything is woven from scratch – from yarn into fabric."

3D Steam Stretch fabric, which has been tested to prove that it withstands constant wear and washing, is used for garments in Issey Miyake's Spring Summer 2015 womenswear collection shown during Paris fashion week in September.

Spring 2015 RTW Issey Miyake

Research breakthrough: digitally-produced zero-waste 100% recyclable clothing by Dr Kate Goldsworthy

The Filipino Women Turning Rags into High Fashion

Amazing Process: YUZEN (KIMONO-MAKING)

A Whole New Cloth: Politics and the Fashion System

In fashion, despite more than 400 eco labels, an incremental ‘do less harm’ approach has addressed the symptoms, but not the principal cause, of our difficulties: an economy based on perpetual growth in a finite world. 

Read on...

Spend, Don’t Mend.

Advertising and consumerism dull our capacity for empathy.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th November 2013.

Guilt is good. It’s the feature that distinguishes the rest of the population from psychopaths. It’s the sensation you are able to feel when you possess a capacity for empathy.

But guilt inhibits consumption. So a global industry has developed to smother it with a 13-tog duvet of celebrities and cartoon characters and elevator music. It seeks to persuade us not to see and not to feel. It seems to work.

MAIYET

Gorgeous work by Indonesian artisans, and a fascinating combination of block-printing and batik-work

Maiyet | Hand Batik In Indonesia from MAIYET on Vimeo.

Dr Martens Official: The Making Process

Interview with Nin Castle of Goodone

Nin Castle Interview for Urban Times from Ion Products on Vimeo.
http://urbantimes.co/2012/07/nin-castle-making-a-sustainable-statement/

Arigato Shingo Sato Sensei!!!

TR Cutting School by Shingo Sato is just one of the many YouTube channels that could get me totally addicted for days. So many pattern-making ideas, and a totally alternative approach to 2D/3D pattern cutting. Must-watch...the following are just a few of the more popular videos.

http://www.trpattern.com/

Printsource: Art: Paul Jenkins

Printsource: Art: Paul Jenkins:
Paul Jenkins was an artist originally associated with abstract expressionism and his work looks more relevant and inspiring today than ...