Running order for Presi

Hi Guys,

The running order for the presentation, we can type the text into a word document to create a kind of script, have a run through and divide up the speaking parts and also work out how much time should be spent on each item to pace it well.

Hope this look OK and we can flesh it out tomorrow and start ticking things off!

Natalie

The Harley Street Scan and some relevant items from their booklet

Publish Post

Pages from Harley Medical Group's "Your Guide to Beautiful Skin with Non Surgical Solutions"

Karen

More re bio printers from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12507034

Karen

3D bio-printers to print skin and body parts

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-3d-bio-printers-skin-body.html

Karen

body scanner before our one

http://www.greenparenthood.com/blog/2011/02/26/instant-health-assessment-with-new-skin-scanner/

Karen

heyyy guys wat tym r we meeting on tuesday........coz nw our tutorial is at 3:30pm...!!

simran

Try a Body Tattoo Virtually on Your Photo

http://www.thepirado.com/2010/04/try-body-tattoo-virtually-on-your-photo.html



Karen

Goodbye botox. Hello snake serum!

http://www.glamoxysnakeserum.com/tag/south-east-asian-temple-viper/

Karen

this seems a good site for tips, health, designing, style, etc etc etc..........


http://www.ehow.com/

Simran

how to use tattoo ink to cover up vitiligo patches....!!

Summer months make vitiligo unbearable. The skin disease with unknown origin turns skin pigment whiter over time until patches form in exposed areas. Any area of the body may be affected with vitiligo, though usually the condition appears on the legs, arms and face. In addition to skin grafting, therapeutic tattoos treat the discoloration caused by vitiligo. Tattoo ink covers with new pigments but does not cure the condition. Even after you get a tattoo, if you have vitiligo you still need to wear protective clothing and sunblock, and remain in the shade
.

Instructions

1. Vitiligo Tattoos

   • 1
     Take medication and consult a doctor about the status of your vitiligo. Cases where vitiligo has not stopped or continues to spread may not be the best for receiving permanent tattoos.
   • 2
     Press a sheet of tracing paper against your skin where a vitiligo patch exists. Trace the outline of the affected areas. A friend may need to help you in this process for hard-to-reach areas.
   • 3
     Place another sheet of tracing paper on top of the vitiligo design and create a new tattoo. Use dark and bright ink colors to fill in light areas of the skin with larger symbols and bases to cover the bigger patches. Look at a tattoo gallery for designs.
   • 4
     Bring your design to a reputable tattoo parlor and consult an artist for ink suggestions. Tattoo artists frequently cover unwanted pigmentation and may have designs of their own that can cover severely spotted areas.
   • 5
     Choose colorful ink to bring attention away from the skin beneath. Tattoo artists have a variety of inks. Pick red, blue and green inks with dark pigments to cover severely white areas.
   • 6
     Set up a tattoo session with your artist. Make sure that the environment, including needles and equipment, is sterilized. One square inch of skin should take 30 minutes to tattoo, so plan for up to a few hours depending on the size of your tattoo and amount of color. You may need to plan repeated sessions to fill in all of the tattoo's ink.

1. Micropigmentation Tattoos

   • 1
     Choose an ink color closest to your skin tone. Consult your doctor on the types of ink available for micropigmentation. In general, a doctor recommends a darker color to start as tattoos fade over time.
   • 2
     Visit a micropigmentation doctor who specializes in skin-colored tattoos for the treatment of vitiligo. The treatment is primarily for those with vitiligo around the lips or smaller areas.
   • 3
     Plan to update the ink often. Over time, your tattoo ink fades due to sun damage and skin life. If you have vitiligo you must protect your skin from sun exposure. You can use thick clothing, sunscreen and stay in the shade when you spend long amounts of time outdoors.

Read more: How to Use Tattoo Ink to Cover Up Vitiligo Patches | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_7691949_use-cover-up-vitiligo-patches.html#ixzz1NhV5ygvR

Simran

GOLD

I have been in contact with a company called Caroline South- they represent high end fragrance and beauty companies in the UK. The newest trend they are seeing is the use of Gold.

I am hoping to have a meeting with someone there who said she should be able to provide us with some marketing material, in the mean time here are some little bits of info that I have found.

"Research has revealed that gold not only has anti-bacterial properties, but actually helps to transport oxygen molecules directly into the skin, influencing cellular functions and providing a new energy level. This helps to revitalise and rejuvenate the skin.

The youth of the skin is dependent on the efficiency of the cell-renewal process, which is hamp e red by many factors. The build-up of toxins and wastes in the system, along with exposure to ultraviolet radiation and chemical air pollutants, slows down the regeneration of new regeneration of new cells.

It also hastens the aging process by causing oxidation damage to the collagen fibres, the supporting tissue of the skin and by undermining the skin's normal functions. Pure gold actually helps to reverse oxidation damage, making the skin more firm, resilient and youthful.

Gold also helps stimulate lymphatic drainage and blood circulation, thus facilitating the removal of toxins and wastes and purifying the skin. All these actions help to improve the skin's normal functions, particularly that of regeneration of healthy new cells."

Natalie

Mood beauty- The Senses

The thing that seems to appear in all of the skin artists and beuty marketing is the theme of the senses-

touch, smell, taste, heat

Perhaps this is something we should bear in mind during our presentation and try to address all of these?

Natalie

Apologies for cross posting...

It appears i've been cross posting things that Karen has also looked at- we must both be tasked with the artists and designers research. Apologies if you've all looked at things twice, I think it is mostly the skin lab info from the Wellcome trust website that is doubled up.

Natalie

Judith Clarke

Judith Clarke is a costume designer, she has work on display at Tate Britain if anyone is passing by there that takes imprints of the skin, it sounds interesting but is not available on tate online;
below is an image i found

A link to her website- Judith Clark Costume

Natalie

Damian Ortega-Skin

"His work is thought provoking and fun.  An installation that I particularly enjoyed was Skin.  With Skin, Ortega took three modernist buildings that serve as public housing and has cut out the floorplan of a single apartment unit in leather.  The leather floorplan was then hung from a meat hook from the ceiling.  It shows the contrast between architectural theory and the end result.  Soft hanging scultpures that are based on architects’ attempts to solve the problem of overpopulated urban living.  Skin as a border of the body and the wall as a border of a home.  An image of the housing structure that the floorplan belongs to is cleverly tattooed on each piece.  With Skin, Ortega provides further proof as to how an architect like Le Corbusier failed in his meglomaniacal attempt at public housing and how the road to hell is paved with good intentions."


Natalie

Surgical Tattooing

The Katie Piper foundation is pushing for Make-up tattooing to be available on the NHS, by tattooing on eye liner or lip liner to give the face more definition and symetry the persons confidence and participation in society can be greatly increased. This treatment is currently classed as cosmetic, but at a relatively small cost can create huge mental improvements.

The article below refers more to adjusting pigment

Surgical Tattooing

Scarification/ White Ink Tattoos

The work of some of the artists like Rhian Solomon reminds me of scarification...

History Of Scarification

Using scars to mark the body as a right of passage or to mark an event has been going on for thousands of years. Even today scarification is a common practice in Austrailia, New Guinea, and West Africa.Facial scarring was a popular practice among the Huns during the 4th to 6th century.The Māori of New Zealand used a form of ink rubbing scarification to produce facial tattoos known as “moko”. Moko were considered to make the body complete. Māori bodies were considered to be naked without these scars. Moko were unique to each person and served as a sort of signature. Some Māori chiefs even used the pattern of their moko as their signatures on early land treaties with Europeans.

Relating to Sims research on tattoos and skin pigmentation there is a trend in white ink tattoos at the moment; it uses a translucent ink that appears ghostly on dark skin and like scarring on pale skin. It is this appearance of scarification that has become the trend.

Natalie

Anish Kapoor

I watched one of the imagine series yesterday exploring the recent Anish Kapoor exhibition at the RA.

In this he mentioned the importance of skin as surface and how this is a large part of his work. I especially like the idea of skin as the seat of all senses.

"Playing with surfaces and the appearances of things, Anish Kapoor makes skin a powerful image in understanding his work. Skin, the seat of all sensations, marks a barrier between an interior and an exterior. In this double connection, Anish Kapoor’s works are typically “places of sensations” and markers of barriers. The concept of skin therefore designates the search for an art that finds the deeper meaning on the surface. It is in physical sensation that the artwork reveals its profundity. In this manner, whether through monumental sculptures in PVC membrane (Marsyas, 2002) or the reflecting surfaces of mirror sculptures (C-Curve, 2007), revelation is situated in the skin."

Natalie

'E - Skin'

Jill Scott
'e-Skin'
'e-Skin' is an ongoing project that aims to develop a novel type of wearable and interactive interface which mimics the sensory capabilities of the human skin. The e-Skin lab in Zurich combines research expertise from the fields of human computer interaction, wearable computing, biomimetic robotics and ergonomic design. One of the intended applications for e-Skin is as an aid for the visually impaired to provide tactile and acoustic cues to help them to navigate complex environments.

Natalie

Skin ;)

www.wellcome.ac.uk/


I think basically wellcome trust site have lots of information
which we are look at ;)


Hyemin x

Suzanne Lee- Growing Textiles

Suzanne Lee- Growing Textiles

This is an interesting video from the science museum website

Natalie

Suzanne Lee

This fits very well with our ideas, please take a look her stuff is great. I emailed her to ask for a meeting to discuss her concepts but she is in the states until 9th June. I will try and get some other information about her.

Natalie

BioCouture

Imagine if we could grow clothing…

 
BioCouture is a research project harnessing nature to propose a radical future fashion vision. We are investigating the use of microbial-cellulose, grown in a laboratory, to produce clothing. Our ultimate goal is to literally grow a dress in a vat of liquid...

Suzanne Lee is Director of the project and a Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She is collaborating with scientists to unite design with cutting edge bio and nano-technologies.

Marta Lwin

This also fits in with our idea of printing or growing our own skin....

Marta Lwin
'epiSkin', 2006-07
Cultured in a lab, epiSkin is biological jewellery made from epithelia cells, which are cultured to create an artificial skin. The cells are grown into designed forms controlled by the artist. The cells are incubated for a period of time, following which they are stained with a custom dye. The skin is then visibly sealed into a wearable object. The process of creating these pieces includes human tissue culturing as well as a computer-generated form on which the cells are cultured and then transplanted into adaptive jewellery.

Natalie

Rhian Solomon

Obviously Karen had also looked into this artist but a link for those of you who were not aware of her...

Rhian Solomon
'Lessons on Limberg', 2010/'Bodycloth', 2010
Inspired by a revolutionary text by pioneering Russian plastic surgeon AA Limberg ('The Planning of Local Plastic Operations on the Body Surface: Theory and practice', 1963), this newly commissioned work reveals the ongoing application in contemporary medical practice of Limberg's technique of constructing geometric paper models of skin flaps, which he used in the planning of surgical procedures in the 1960s.

http://www.rhiansolomon.co.uk/portfolio/

Natalie

‘Mirror’ Margi Geerlinks 2000.

this was a particular favourite from the skin exhibition and very much related to our research.

Natalie

Skin foods and Skin fashion

skin foods ;) and fashion really interesting! enjoy it

http://users.erols.com/gtodorov/skincare/collag.htm
http://www.amazing-green-tea.com/green-tea-skin.html

http://nexus404.com/Blog/2006/11/20/skin-fashion/


look at it!

Hyemin x

Skin Art and Fashion

Skin art and fashion cloth ;)

interesting work!

Hyemin x

Could this be the next fashion?!

https://www.macom-medical.com/facial_compression.html

Karen

Skin Aging Handbook. An Integrated Approach to Biochemistry and Product Development - Market Research Reports - Research and Markets

Skin Aging Handbook. An Integrated Approach to Biochemistry and Product Development - Market Research Reports - Research and Markets

Just the list of contents but interesting from new trend point-of-view

Karen

Podcast accompanying the Skin Exhibition at the Wellcome Collection

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/packed-lunch-podcast/skin.aspx

worth listening to and some of it is relevant

Karen

Materials Library presents Flesh - Wellcome Collection

Materials Library presents Flesh - Wellcome Collection

The flesh exhibition that was suggested- think Xu's photographs of preparing the pork skin work perfectly with this.

Natalie

Creating a Skin Materials

http://www.kxcad.net/autodesk/3ds_max/Autodesk_3ds_Max_9_Tutorials/tut_creating_a_skin_material.html

I found it about how to create 3D skin.
look at it if you have time ;)

Hyemin x 

Obsession with outward Appearance

It's me again.  Internet up and running now it seems!

I know it's a bit late in the day but could be tied in with collagen - our main topic could be slanted towards how society is so obsessed with appearance right now (anti-aging skin care, collage injections, drinks, infusions, botox etc) and what to do about it now whereas the next trend may be more obsession with what we're eating, drinking and lifestyle and who we are as people and how we will be in the future as a result.  A return to being natural?  Which would tie in nicely with the healthy masks we're giving ourselves next week!!

What do you think?

Karenx

All About Collagen

RCSB PDB-101

Olivier Goulet the skin bag man

You have to look at this website - which Olivier happens to be on - and make sure you scroll down!!

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fake-human-skin-clothes-skinbag-by-olivier-goulet

Karen

Marta Lwin

This is the artist who makes wearable sculptures as featured at the top of the Wellcome Collection Skin exhibition page.  Here is some more of her work and info about her. 
Karen

Jill Scott - e-skin

Jill Scott is one of the artists mentioned in the Skin exhibition at the Wellcome.  Here is her home page.

http://www.jillscott.org/homepage.html


Karen

Skin Lab - Wellcome Collection

Skin Lab - Wellcome Collection.

Here's all the information I could find on the Skin Exhibition.

Have a great weekend.

Karen

RCSB PDB-101

All about Collagen.  Enjoy! Karen x

Structural Proteins found in the Skin

Structural Proteins found in the Skin

3D Printing

If anyone has been to the materials collection and seen some of the developments in 3D printing this article is fascinating.... perhaps we could look at existing treatments that could be available or produced in a new way?

Printing a skin graft from your home printer

I am personally a little obsessed and amazed with 3D printing. I quite frankly thought it was impossible when I first heard about it last year. This has got to be the biggest development in textile production for a long time and this would be a great way of linking the two themes together, along with the other research conducted. 

Can we print food supplements from programming data into a computer?

Can we print 'patches' that release protein or vitamins into the skin?

Can we scan the skin to determine it's deficiencies?

More questions than answers at the moment guys but I look forward to hearing your thoughts tomorrow.

Natalie

Skin Grafts and living textiles

There is much on the internet relating to skin grafts- the process of removing skin from one area of the body to another or creating a second synthetic skin.

Here are some interesting images that i have come across that could be explored further-

These are obviously appealing from a textiles viewpoint, but perhaps someone elses research has found traditional methods or grafting (or protecting) skin that we could look at with view to creating our own medical textiles.

(Think back to the living textiles at the talk we attended- I will try and get the designers name from Linda).

Katie Piper- Scar Management

For those of you that may not be familiar with the series 'Katie my beautiful face' and 'Katie my beautiful friends, this concise video illustrates the groundbreaking procedures being used in scar treatment and management.

Katie underwent- intensive deep tissue massage, physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, high pressure jet therapy, edermology and the use of pressure garments. This was not just an appearance treatment, it helped the skin to become more subtle and have more movement to allow Katie to lead a more normal life.

The Katie Piper foundation is trying to get a scar management centre in the UK, as she had to travel to France.

Physiotherapy and hydrotherapy are fairly common techniques but are being newly applied to scar management- perhaps some of our other areas of research could lead us to looking at an existing treatment or technique that can be applied in a new way.

If you are interested her documentaries are available on 4OD still.

Natalie

Garra Ruffa Fish

Here is an image from when I experienced Garra Rufa (or Dr Fish) in China back in 2008 (not my legs obviously!). It was an unheard of phenomenon back then and it took me a while to build up the courage to get it. The sensation was nice on hard skin areas (like feet and elbows) but I found it a little too sensitive in other places. Mt friends all thought this was completely bizarre when I got back to England and now you can pop into Topshop to get your feet done!

 Natalie

Bit cruel but here's visual proof of what happens if you don't/can't do anything about getting old!

http://www.popcrunch.com/celebrity-before-and-after/

Madonna's trying to avoid it by natural means but this isn't a good look either, is it?! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-522172/Glamorous-ageing-celebrities-blame-50s-anorexia-epidemic.html

These pills may be the precursor to the Death Becomes Here potion?http://www.drnirdosh.com/cathome_Supplements-Anti-ageing-skin-supplements_6.html

Death Becomes Her

Hello everyone!
Here is the Link to 'Death becomes her' this is the final scene(s)... from around 1.55 seconds the women start talking about having to take care of each others appearances to keep them looking 'normal' as the potion they have taken makes them immortal but technically dead.
I think its a bit of a comical way of looking at the 'Live longer and younger' theme we talked about whilst mainly being about skin and in their case how its falling off haha!

Let me know what you think :) x

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