London

A very fruitful trip to London mainly to see the RCA Show to see what the textiles were like and how they were displayed ..
Websites to check out
www.KristineMandsberg.com She presented a silent movie with a black and white background with her as the main character wearing her textiles , you had to see it to appreciate it .
www.ellapeters.com Laser printed adhesive vinyl put on the back of perspex strips and displayed as a screen and stairs . Particularly interesting for me with the transparency and the idea of screening .
Shireen Battiwalas beautifully hand stitched drawings of birds.
Rachel Templeman 's flocked and foiled pieces ceiling to floor organic abstracted shapes on some kind of vinyl or lightweight leather .
In product design Simon Hasan with his recycled /rethought products a paintbrush with a metal paintcan openerattached , a rubber with a groove to hold a pencil etc . He is into empowering people to do their on recycling entitled "Nest Building " his video shows how . Go to simonhasan.com.
It was also Architecture week  so lots of amazing exhibitions and events including the worlds largest living room outside Somerset House(see image above) where "Skin and Bones " fashion and architecture was on , a whole other story .