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SLOW DESIGN: The Domesticity of The Avant-Garde and Other Tactile Tales
We’re totally down with the philosophy of Slow Food. We support the strategy behind Slow Money.
How about SLOW DESIGN?
Hell, yes.
A recent article in the Financial Times, “The Riches of Stitches,” explores this return to the tactile, especially in the (previously dubbed) domestic domain of quilting.
Through July, The Victoria & Albert Museum in London is hosting “Quilts: 1700-2010″ an exhibition of British quilts from the permanent collection, special commissions, and work by contemporary textile artists working in more abstract, collage-like forms.
The contemporary artists working in “quilt medium” interviewed in the article view the painstaking process as a form of personal identity-formation. Quilting and textile work also reach a wide audience, as texture, color patterns, and fabrics translate into an immediate and universal language. The concepts of storytelling and layered narrative are reflected in the physical process AND product.
Some slow creative food for thought the next time you’re about to “Select All > Adobe Garamond” and call it a day.
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See handmade quilts by Norma Grasse for Art In The Age in the Store!
Written by robin on 03/18/2010 in Activism | Blog | Folk Art | Graphic Design | History | News | Philosophy | Theory/Criticism
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