Debate and Polemic Lecture 4

Graffiti
Artist, Gallery, Museum, Exhibition,  celebration of capitalism
Deleuze and Guattari - philosophers
analyzing document
'fiorucci made me hardcore' video from youtube.com
sounds not matching with the body movement
represent the party of politics
hard to create change and revolution
see people's reaction, how shocked
thinking of terms stuck in the situation
genre in art are different forms
'Leigh bowery -MINTY useless man' video from youtube.com
still images uselessness arist 20th century different between art and culture activities connected military new body of work  subtotal of performance practice front line of activities
Avant guard- experimental or innovation modernism
'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde'
inspired by innovation tie yourself into innovated any need
original
john berger- experience different between one single experience the effect of image they have on you ways of looking at things ways of seeing things
see what a lot of artist were doing
- research the situation
-put ideas against each other
-board your research

uniformity and control

scientist once though that the world was flat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth

inception definition : The beginning of something, such as an undertaking; a commencement.
-introduction of inception
-information on writer
-other films related
-make a statement
-manifesto
-bias view and back up
-other view and back up
-conclusion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_Manifesto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Steel_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomnia_(2002_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix

Realise your potential

- Decide on the specific career avenues that you would like to pursue.

- Discover five companies, organisations or clients that you would like to apply to conduct a placement or pursue a job opportunity.

- Explain why you have chosen these career avenues.

- Describe what attributes and skills that you believe would be desired or sort after within these roles.

- Explain what areas and skills you believe you will need to develop to improve your chances of being employed within these areas.

- Describe why you are interested in working for the companies you have chosen.

- Identify what you have discovered through your career research and explain your career goals and aspiration’s for your future.

Types of jobs

Servicing

Trading

Manufacturing

o   Beamer

o   Carder

o   Knitting machinists

o   Knitting technicians

o   Spinner

o   Technical director

o   Technical textile designer

o   Textile machinery technician

o   Textile operative

o   Winder

o   Clothing manufacturing engineer

o   Collar linker

o   Hand intarsia

o   Pattern grader

o   Quality control inspector

o   Sample machinist

o   Fabric technologist

o   Fashion product developer

o   Junior knitwear designer

o   Production

o   Development garment technician

o   Digital planner

o   Market researcher

·  S - Specific (or Significant).

·  M - Measurable (or Meaningful).

·  A - Attainable (or Action-Oriented).

·  R - Relevant (or Rewarding).

·  T - Time-bound (or Trackable).

·  Career - What level do you want to reach in your career, or what do you want to achieve?

·  Financial - How much do you want to earn, by what stage? How is this related to your career goals?

·  Education - Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular? What information and skills will you need to have in order to achieve other goals?

·  Family - Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent? How do you want to be seen by a partner or by members of your extended family?

·  Artistic - Do you want to achieve any artistic goals?

·  Attitude - Is any part of your mindset holding you back? Is there any part of the way that you behave that upsets you? (If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or find a solution to the problem.)

·  Physical - Are there any athletic goals that you want to achieve, or do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?

·  Pleasure - How do you want to enjoy yourself? (You should ensure that some of your life is for you!)

·  Public Service - Do you want to make the world a better place? If so, how?

Realise your potential

Over the past year, I have learnt about myself is that I am technically good, is quick on learning new techniques and while assisting a third years during their graduating collection, I can concentrate on the task them give out such as fixing knitted pieces, working the linker and helping out as a runner. However my weakness is concentrating on my own work, organising my work together and I think I got a long way to go to be able to catch up with others. I still need to identify my identity of my work style and who would be the person wearing my clothes if I were to be a designer or work freelance.

Currently, I have been researching on what types of jobs would suit me and most of them would be in manufacturing. Ideally I want to work for a designer, producing samples. What I want now is to learn under a knitwear designer to improve my knowledge and skills in knitwear. I want to experience in working as a team and see how the whole studio works from how the system works for working for a client, working on a seasonally collection and how all of that is process to manufacturing. It would also be great to gain a broad range of different skills while working on a placement not only in knitwear but other areas such as printing, embellishments or pattern cutting.

I have research a number of designers which I would like to work on a placement. When I saw Alice palmer (http://www.alicepalmer.co.uk/ALICE_PALMER/home.html) spring/summer 2011 collection, instantly I wanted to know more about the designer and her techniques because her work is amazing with beautifully constructive knitwear. I can feel an Issey miyaki influence from her collection. Not only would you benefit of her technically but constructively which I am very interested in. My previous work before specialising in knitwear was quiet structural in my silhouette and did not have a lot of knowledge on creating my vision. Another designer that I looked into was Brooke Roberts (http://brookeroberts.net/) which I admirer for her work for interpreting science into her designs, exploring the links between the two. I like how her minds works with such a unique concept and the use of materials she uses in her collection such as techno-plastic and retro-reflective yarns. Its show us a different way of seeing science though design and gives an excitement of remembering those times in school sitting through a science class. Now for a more toned down, simple and more commercial side, Elizabeth Lau (http://www.elizabethlau.com/) with her quirky, happy, easy to wear knitwear. I can see how of a big market it is for this brand for overseas. I would like to see how the system works for a commercial design then a luxury brand. I feel that my line of work would be aimed at a similar customer that they have so if I were to work under this brand I would have gained more knowledge about what the customer wants along with the price range. And finally Craig Lawrence (http://www.craiglawrence.co.uk/) with his volume, fluffy shiny knit, closer to the high-ends fashion with beautiful delicate evening pieces

There’s so much you can do with knitwear which I have not explored yet. Placement will teach me

It’s important to understand high quality finishing

My weakness is communication, presentation skills

My strengths is knitting skills, hand, machine, crochet, dubied , CAD skills

Assisting

Gain broad range of skills and develop on their abilities 

Plan your life

·  S - Specific (or Significant).

·  M - Measurable (or Meaningful).

·  A - Attainable (or Action-Oriented).

·  R - Relevant (or Rewarding).

·  T - Time-bound (or Trackable).

·  Career - What level do you want to reach in your career, or what do you want to achieve?

·  Financial - How much do you want to earn, by what stage? How is this related to your career goals?

·  Education - Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular? What information and skills will you need to have in order to achieve other goals?

·  Family - Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent? How do you want to be seen by a partner or by members of your extended family?

·  Artistic - Do you want to achieve any artistic goals?

·  Attitude - Is any part of your mindset holding you back? Is there any part of the way that you behave that upsets you? (If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or find a solution to the problem.)

·  Physical - Are there any athletic goals that you want to achieve, or do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?

·  Pleasure - How do you want to enjoy yourself? (You should ensure that some of your life is for you!)

·  Public Service - Do you want to make the world a better place? If so, how?

IPP

- Decide on the specific career avenues that you would like to pursue.

- Discover five companies, organisations or clients that you would like to apply to conduct a placement or pursue a job opportunity.

- Explain why you have chosen these career avenues.

- Describe what attributes and skills that you believe would be desired or sort after within these roles.

- Explain what areas and skills you believe you will need to develop to improve your chances of being employed within these areas.

- Describe why you are interested in working for the companies you have chosen.

- Identify what you have discovered through your career research and explain your career goals and aspiration’s for your future.

Designers

Alice palmer http://www.alicepalmer.co.uk/ALICE_PALMER/home.html
Brooke roberts http://brookeroberts.net/

Elizabeth Lau http://www.elizabethlau.com/

Leutton postle http://leuttonpostle.com/

Al golhar  http://www.am-golhar.com/

Luas Nascimentoative http://www.lucasnascimento.com/home.html

Cooperative designs http://www.cooperative-designs.com/index.html

Craig Lawrence http://www.craiglawrence.co.uk/

Laura thesiss http://www.lauratheiss.com/splash.html  
Joseph http://www.joseph.co.uk

Types of jobs
Servicing

Trading

Manufacturing

• Beamer
• Carder
• Knitting machinists
• Knitting technicians
• Spinner
• Technical director
• Technical textile designer
• Textile machinery technician
•  Textile operative
• Winder
• Clothing manufacturing engineer
• Collar linker
• Hand intarsia
• Pattern grader
•  Quality control inspector
• Sample machinist
•  Fabric technologist
• Fashion product developer
•  Junior knitwear designer
• Production
• Development garment technical 
• Digital planner
• Market researcher

Knitting for project -http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Liz_Raad

What is a fashion technical designer? http://www.ehow.com/video_4908839_fashion-technical-designer_.html

Topshop report

The knitwear designed is definitely designed for the Topshop girl who loves fashion and is mostly aimed for the youths. When people shop at Topshop, you would not have to purposely look for what is on trend when it's already designed to be on trend, which is one of the reasons why Topshop is a popular high-street brand.

The designs of the knitwear is carefully design with the decision of the right balance of what weight of yarn and the fitting of each product to make the customer feel comfortable in their clothes and not feel suffocated. Topshop mostly uses mix fibre yarns to create a good texture and quality also to keep within the price range between the productions of the merchandises. However the only yarn they use in their main range that is one hundred percent is cotton and acrylic.

The overview of the designs of the knitwear is beautifully designed with the usage of Fair Isle, cabling, the contract of colours and also fitting the silhouette with certain techniques such the moss stitch and combining knit and purl. When you look at the knitwear selection, you can see the silhouettes are similar however has a different style and look which separates them from looking like each other.

From a business view Topshop has analyse what the customer likes and has just recreated from what has been sold well. To keep the revenue stable, they have been producing new produces every single week also a selective range for the upcoming season to show awareness of change of season and prepare for their customers. Not only that, but has a wide selection of different ranges from exclusive products to the designers collection which also mean a different price range. To keep Topshop’s identity more well known, they have create they own unique looks such as midnight angel and glam rockette which not a lot of high-street brand do.

According to some reviews, there was a product which online reviewers recommended to purchase a size smaller than your own so it would fit comfortably and not be too fitted. Overall the reviews of the knitwear selection are nicely fitted and comfortable.

Some stores are laid out differently from others, either by section of style or by the range of clothing. Window display is important for all fashion stores. At the flagship store Topshop uses a unique way of visually advertising their selection of merchandise by placing the model lying on the floor with angled mirrors reflecting their image.

Because Topshop has many ranges means different competitors however is difficult to overview as one whole company. For the fashion, Topshop’s main competitor is Zara as it’s known to be a fashion imitator producing it’s knitwear with good quality yarn for a low price.

Personal I think that the main competitor of Topshop in the knitwear range is River Island. The comparison between the two high-street brands is though Topshop has a wider style range in knitwear, the feel of yarn at River Island is slightly better. The price range between the basic knitwear of Topshop and River Island is close. Some of the knitwear of topshop contains angora and rabbit white which would feel soft however can easily fall out and could lose its softness.

Debate and Polemic Lecture 3 Formative group assessment

debate, ploemic and manifesto

explain past action and the motive of the declation of intentions
political aim?
argue the manifesto
look at the weakness and back up
is manifesto still relvant today?
where the source of images come from?
quotes from the topic?
include harvard referencing
what? where? why?
understanding of the topic
 - plot
 - narravtive
 - character
 - genre
 - form (style)
 - business
background
social and culture
attitude and behavior from the topic
is there a myth?
any subcultural?
make a debate?
where else would the manifesto relate?
compare versions of the topic
are there any other manifesto similar to the manifesto?
brief of media
different views
authoer/writer's views on politics
introduction/summary

title: rage and reason in a world of manifesto

reference all sources include images
look at different agruements and views
keep quotations short
could you turn it into a conversation?
use in third person
that can be analysed and constructed as a polemic
conduct relvant research of images, issues and case studies necessary to participate in the seminars/discussions