Spinning Peerie Screen .

Frances Priest . Artlink Residency at St Johns Hospital, Livingston.

“This screen was created through a participatory design process with patients, volunteers and staff in the Macmillan Daycare Centre. The rotating discs were inspired by spinning Peeries which many of the patients remembered playing with as children, chalking patterns onto the tops of the peeries and watching them spin down the street. Each pattern design represents a conversation with a patient or volunteer; reminiscences of past careers, favourite hobbies and enjoyable pastimes”  

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‘Make do and unmend? Meet the “un-knitting” machine, a pedal-powered apparatus designed to recycle unwanted knitwear. The curious contraption is the brainchild of Imogen Hedges, a London-based product-and-furniture designer who discovered that charity shops sometimes spend hours unraveling sweaters by hand. “They can make more money out of selling the wool than they can from the sweaters,” says the Kingston University graduate’

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Based on his childhood fascination for the strange atmosphere of amusement parks Till Nowak created the fictional documentary ‘The Centrifuge Brain Project’. He collected footage and used digital animation to create a series of non-existing thrill rides

Spin out by Elvis Presley

This animation of dancing wool characters has been created to coincide with an installation by London designers Doshi Levien for textile company Kvadrat at Stockholm Design Week this week.

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Directed, filmed, and produced by Christophe Thockler the clip uses 10,000 photographs of needles, thread, cloth and embroidery, mixed with clever lighting techniques to produce a fun video for Favorite Place, the latest track by US pop rock band Black Books.

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