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 […]
Books for summer reading
POSTED ON MAY 22, 2007 Books for summer reading It is curious that in the age of digital communications we have two of the best books on leather now available. Just coming out on June 1st is Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Hundred Years of Inspired Fakes by Robert Kanigel. Corium club members who visited […]
Leathersellers Prize Giving Day
JULY 3, 2007 Leathersellers Prize-giving day So now we have reached the end of term which always arrives punctuated with a lot of interesting meetings for the non students. Perhaps the students enjoy them too, but the impact of actually having to turn up at exams may take away some of the pleasure. For the […]
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