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 […]
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, […]
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 […]