FOR INDIGO

A reading of the Book of Kells

as a personal text of Celtic diasporic consciousness

http://www.indigodesignnetwork.org/

INCIPIT

A consensus within the Melbourne design community
Tony Ward (AFW) was educated into and has participated in for half a century could variously profile him. As a teacher. An illustrator. A sometime adman. An ironic participating commentator on Australian cultural well being. As exemplified in his direct application of personally acquired learning across a diverse design practice and concurrently design education he is – in his own opinion – merely an illuminator not a creator of knowledge. No so different to the artist/scribe that sought to imbue experience of a text for his antecedents with the significance of the truths it contained, in the language of their place and time. Or the Iban storyteller/weaver of the pua kumbu of Sarawak, where he will be based in 2011, as a lecturer in Graphic Design at Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak and an illuminator of first truths for students in the early years of a new design programme.



PUA KUMBU

Iban or Sea Dayak Fabrics And Their Patterns 1936

hac_iban_1 hac_iban_2

http://www.onread.com/writer/Haddon-Alfred-C-alfred-Cort-1855-1940-109854

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/a0228122204

http://www.scribd.com/Headhunters-black-white-and-brown/d/445007

http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/420/1/MethodsReviewPaperNCRM-010.pdf

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3307/pg3307.html

RED & GREEN ARE A TENSION TO BE ENDURED
UNTIL RECONCILED THROUGH
THE MEDIATION OF WHITE

One Response to “FOR INDIGO”

  1. malcolmenright Says:

    That’s great news for you Tony + the close audience you will no doubt effect in the manner of the “real” world. Lucky students . . . lucky you.
    There’s a link on viewersite where Barb and I managed a most spiritual interaction with fabrics from varied Asian cultures – here:
    http://viewersite.wordpress.com/?s=darwin&submit=Search
    Cheers and take care mate!

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