Caroline Till is the co-founder and director of creative consultancy FranklinTill. As design and colour trend consultants, FranklinTill work with a broad range of global clients to collate trend research across the lifestyle industries, translating design insight into tangible experiences such as presentations, reports, books, exhibitions and events. Prior to setting up FranklinTill Caroline worked as design editor at leading global trend consultancy The Future Laboratory.

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The crystal paper which is now lining Selfridges changing rooms, has not only gold ink but gold and pearlescent foils overlapping to catch the light from every angle as you try on your party dresses! In New York the large scale paper is printed in a rich Egyptian blue on a gold base and wouldn’t look out of place in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby’s extravagant parties. There are little touches of gold foil throughout the paper and some of the motif was cut from metal to spread across the brick walls.

A stunning array of colour, texture and print, Linda’a signature style is both sumptuous and luxurious- a refreshing tone in the all too often minimalistic approach to retail interiors. Linda Florence’s work is embedded in a craft for which her experience lends much dexterity.

www.lindaflorence.co.uk

650 exhibitors together, encompassing the very latest equipment, technology and consumables for wide format digital print, narrow format digital print, screen and industrial printing, garment decoration and textile printing will transform the award winning ExCeL London Exhibition Centre into a hub for print innovation.

Melanie Bowles will be sharing the exciting creative approaches and concepts currently employed in designing digital textiles in the from the eyes of the pioneering catwalk designer, the innovative student and the inventive pro-amateur. Her interest is in the growth of online communities and new commercial models that have emerged through social media which use digital textile design and production to design, print, make and share products.

This seminar is FREE.

The symposium offers an opportunity to gain insight into the work of the speakers’, techniques, methods and innovative thinking with open discussions. Speakers will include:

Philippa Brock – Chair

Nadia-Anne Ricketts

Laura Thomas

Tim Parry-Williams

Helga Matos

Deirdre Wood

Eleanor Pritchard

To find out more about the speakers and how to attend please visit SIT online.

Every year, 1.618 also introduces innovative projects in their Prospective section, aimed at positively tackling the future through sustainability. These future scenarios are created by leaders in the field of design and art who anticipate change, helping us to understand global change by thinking forward, inspiring and dreaming of the future.

Biolace will also be on show at the Mead Gallery, Warwick University from 2 May 2013 to 22 June 2013 at the Artists’ Plans for Sustainability exhibition. The exhibition’s premise is that in just a few more decades, the world’s population will exceed 9 billion, 70% of which will live in cities, thus bringing together artists’ plans for innovative and radical solutions to a more sustainable and resilient way of life.

Artists’ Plans for Sustainability will also include works by Joseph Beuys,N55, Nils Norman, Lucy + Jorge Orta and Marjetica Potrč.

Admission is FREE.

Chaired by Jeremy Till, Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London, the debate will ask 3 questions and receive 12 responses:

1. Transitions: “What do we mean by a sustainable future for a creative economy?”

2. Behaviour: “As practitioners in art and design, how can we change behaviours for a more sustainable future?”

3. Paradigm Shifts : “What is the greatest barrier and opportunity for creating a sustainable future?”

Professor Becky Earley is taking part and will respond to the second question of the session: “What do we mean by a sustainable future for a creative economy?”

Caroline Till will also offer her perspective on “What is the greatest barrier and opportunity for creating a sustainable future?”

The debate will take place on Wednesday 15th May 2013 from 13.30-18.30 at the St Bride’s Foundation. Tickets for this event can be ordered online:

thisisalive.com

A quiet revolution is happening. A new breed of designers has begun to reshape our world by re-orchestrating our relationship to nature. Some act as ‘Plagiarists’ mimicking the way nature operates. Others choose to co-design with nature as ‘Bio-Artisans’. Some turn ‘Alchemists’ and collaborate with synthetic biologists to re-programme living organisms. Others become ‘Agent Provocateurs’ and explore the ethics and risks of designing with living technology. These designers create and unravel a future hybrid world, where our everyday products and manufacturing tools will be ‘alive’.

EN VIE – ALIVE showcases a range of designers, architects and researchers who are negotiating these new relationships with nature and will showcase living architecture, industrial design, furniture, interaction design, jewellery, textiles, fashion, food design, photography, and film.

The exhibition narrative will explore the following key themes:

The ‘Plagiarists’: Designers who mimic nature and use biomimicry principles but rely on conventional manufacturing methods.

The ‘New Artisans’: Designer-Makers that create new products and materials in collaboration with natural biological materials such as bacteria, fungi and algae.

The ‘Bio-Hackers’: Designers who work in collaboration with synthetic biologists to redesign and engineer living organisms in order to develop new products and interfaces of the future.

The ‘New Alchemists’: products and design tools derived from the merging of biology, chemistry, robotics and nanotechnology to create new hybrid organisms ,combining living with non living technology.

The ‘Agent Provocateurs’: Designers that expose and explore the subject to provoke, communicate and debate ethical issues related to living technology and high-tech sustainability.

www.thisisalive.com

*Private View 25th of April by invitation only