POSTED ON MARCH 3, 2008 Monday 3 March, 2008 It’s Monday and I am in Rotorua in New Zealand enjoying the hot springs, mud baths and geysers. I am not carrying my copy of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. That has been left in Auckland […]
Leather Conservation Centre, the Livery and APLF
FEBRUARY 13, 2008 Wednesday 13 February, 2008 The train from Northampton to London is a busy one these days and very often filled with busy Corium Club members. Of course it might be Dr Martins staff heading for their design office in Covent Garden (we need to find the imperative that will persuade them to […]
ISPO, Fish Skins and New Materials
POSTED ON JANUARY 30, 2008 ispo and the Volvo Design Conference Perhaps a few of you read Lucy Kellaway in the Financial Times and noted that just a couple of years ago she complained about an e-mail out-of-office messages made popular by Lotus Notes and now an option for anyone with an email account. Particularly […]
UNIDO, COTANCE, Tilman on Collagen
POSTED ON. DECEMBER 13, 2007 Travelling, travelling, travelling. There is one thing to discover about blogs and that is that when postings are slow it does not always mean discourtesy or that I have nothing to say; perhaps that things are just too hectic. Anyway so it has been these few weeks when between trips […]
Bob Higham walking for India
POSTED ON. NOVEMBER 6, 2007 Short Sleeved Shirts I did my studying at Leeds University and am one of the small remaining band who are entitled to be a member of the Corium Club via an agreement that on the termination of leather teaching at Leeds the Atkin section of the Procter Society would be […]
Leather Guilds, 110th SLTC Meeting
POSTED ON. OCTOBER 17, 2007 It is October and it is sunny in Scotland The weather is hot and sunny and we are having a drink outside in shorts and sun hats. We have been lying on the beach. Is this global warming or just an “Indian” summer? Or perhaps the microclimate that Daniel Defoe […]
Paris and Chengdu
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 20, 2007 (more than one item; one of many put here from my original blogs for the University of Northampton) Paris in September Paris in September was for many decades an essential part of life in the leather industry. A trip to the Semaine du Cuir, the world’s most important leather show, […]
Shredding Paper; all about China
POSTED ON AUGUST 22, 2007 Shredding Paper Kneeling on the floor in the pantry using the sharp end of a lacquered chop-stick to un-jam the paper shredder is clearly a good moment to reflect on what is going on in the leather world. This is, after all, the new “age of interruption” where blackberries, SMS, […]
An Important September
First POSTED ON JULY 11, 2007 An important September September looks like being an important month for the BSLT. The main event going on is the Shanghai is the All China Leather Exhibition (ACLE) which is the “Biggest and Most Important International Leather Trade Fair in China”. It is certainly important to the school as […]
University cocktail party at the Leathersellers Hall in London
University cocktail party at the Leathersellers Hall in London first published June 2007 Just a few days ago I attended a University cocktail party at the Leathersellers Hall in London . It was not a leather event but one where the University makes use of the Leathersellers offer of a fabulous venue in London when […]