DIGITEX
exploring the benefits of digital finishing of textiles
Panel
Chair - Clare Johnston
Professor Clare Johnston is the Head of the Textile Department at the Royal College of Art and a consultant in colour and textile design for fashion and interiors. From 1990 until 1998, Clare was responsible for colour & textile trends for womenswear at Marks & Spencer. She followed this at Liberty of London where, from 1998 until 2004, she was Head of Design and consultant designer. In 2003, she took on a consultancy to the management and buying teams at B&Q to co-ordinate retail colour and style direction for four seasons focusing on home decoration. She was also consultant for the B&Q book, published in 2004 by Thames & Hudson, called Understanding Colour. Among other things Clare is colour panellist for Global Publishing The ‘Mix’ Fashion Colour Books, a member and regular contributor to the British Textile Colour Group and panellist for Dominic Pecler Tissus Premier Colour Direction.
Professor Bob Christie
Bob Christie joined the School of Textiles and Design at Heriot-Watt University in 1980. His research interests are in the chemistry and application technology of dyes and pigments and their use at the textile design interface. He is an acknowledged international authority on organic pigments and has made important contributions in developing speciality dye types, notably fluorescent dyes, photochromic and thermochromic materials and hair dyes. He is coordinating the Designing Through Technology Research Group in the School, and has an association with the Design for Fashion and Textiles group. Bob’s career has included periods in industrial research with two international colour manufacturers, Ciba Pigments (Paisley) and Dominion Colour Corporation (Toronto, Canada). He has written numerous journal articles and patents, is author/co-author of five textbooks, and has presented plenary and invited lectures at several international conferences. He has been awarded a major research grant from EC Framework 6 for DIGITEX, a multinational consortium, on functionalisation of textiles by digital inkjet delivery. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Coloration Technology and Surface Coatings International.
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