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TIP was pleased by the visit of Michael Esson; Dir. IDRI, Professor at Glasgow School of Art and Dong Hua University, China. His recent art work is on display at VM art Gallery, Karachi. He shared his experiences and knowledge in a one day seminar held at TIP auditorium. He was the first artist who resided at Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh, for his inspiration with human anatomy as an artist.

In first session, he gave a brief about his organization, International Drawing Research Institute at CoFA, UNSW in Sydney, Australia. CoFA is one of the leading art schools in Australia providing graduate courses, masters and Ph.D. degree in fields related to Arts & Design.

Then he shared his experience at Outside In; Drawing and Fashion, A dong Hua University Project. How he transformed his art work to make dresses and using the concept of human anatomy and surgical procedures and relating it to typical Chinese culture to form dresses.

In second session he started with a video, which I still can’t figure out what that was about. All those pictures on the wall formation of different objects and that series of people coming out of other people’s stomach and then that fat guy ate the head of small one. All those transformations, what I can relate it to were about human nature or the inside.

In the end he said that how things appear ugly to many people but how beautiful we can actually make them. Then came the president and gave his lasting words, a true artist is 99 % Perspiration and 1 % inspiration. Hopefully these students will perspire something new.

After long vacations we were back at TIP Bin Qasim campus on January 31, 2010, for an event which was no ordinary one, it was the 10^th Convocation of Textile Institute of Pakistan. TIP awarded degrees to the graduates from the class of 2009. Offering programs in Textile Science, Management, Design and Apparel, TIP has now more than 700 graduates working efficiently for the betterment of textile industry, this year around 95 students graduated to join the force. The keynote speaker, Chief Executive and Chairman of Unilever Pakistan Mr. Ahsan A. Malik, in his address said that these young and new professionals are to play their role as entrepreneurs in the new era of development of the nation’s future.

11 graduates were titled with academic honors with Ambreen Abdul Karim Khalani earning the gold medal and honored for representing the graduating class. This year’s ‘Eqbal Ahmed Award’, in memory of TIP’s late chancellor was awarded to Furhan Hussain.

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By Waqas Bin Azhar, TMM4
I request TIP management to postpone the Poster presentation due to the present situation, throughout the country, especially in Karachi as 3 bomb blasts happened lately. It would be better to carry foreword and arrange it in the early days of next semester in main campus.

It will also give the opportunity to outstation student to present. If this is possible for TIP management so please ponder over it, this is just a request

By Bilal Saya, TMM3
I believe there is a vast gap between what we are taught and what happens in practical life in the textile industry of Pakistan. We are being taught all about textiles form spinning to weaving to non-woven and many more, certainly more than what people know in the industry but we don’t get the chance to interact with people from the industry. We don’t know what people from the industry are currently focused on, what are their main concerns is it cheaper powergeneration or labour shortages or quality control in their respective fields like spinning, knitting etc. Product development is also a major concern like for example if a student wants to make running shoes like nike and addidas do. We know that the material used is mostly textiles but we don’t know how it is produced there are other numerous products like these which we can learn to produce with the knowledge that we are taught at TIP. Focusing on these issues and raising student awareness will be the main objective of the society.

So far these are the activities we plan on doing. We need your feedback and support to make it better. Read the rest of this entry »

Textile Institute of Pakistan Announces Spring 09 Admission check out today’s DAWN page 15, an excellent effort by new admission committee…

By Waqas Bin Azhar, TMM4

I would like to start with the time, time just before TIP, when I was searching for some of good business schools in news paper, publications etc, then I found TIP ad in the Jung newspaper and thought to apply for it and fortunately cleared the test and interview. Since I had no information about TIP therefore I asked to some of people in textiles, they told to go for it, fortunately I did not find any chance to ask some of out of textile business people, any way I got admission in TIP and was very happy as I found very good environment in fact I was very much happy to see the top class and really quality faculty. But as the time passes, instead of increase in the happiness, the level of frustrations increases. You must be thinking that if I’ve been suffering from this stage then why I wrote this article so late??

The reason is, this frustration is now being overflowed and compelled me to put up my thoughts on Quack… I will be discussing those issues which need attention. These issues are related to the concern of existing student body. Read the rest of this entry »

TIP management, faculty, staff and students welcomed their new president Mr. Tariq Ikram replacing Dr. Zubair Bandukda as Mr. Tariq addressed them all for the first time ever first TISF slot of Fall Semester 2009.

Mr. Tariq has served as the chairman of Export Promotion Bureau having the the distinction of being the first Pakistani to be appointed as CEO of Reckitt and Colman in Pakistan at the age of 37.

In his brief speech, the newly appointed president discussed about the decline of textile and apparel industry and said that it is mainly because of a significant difference between our imports and exports. He further clarified that this difference can only be minimized if we start supporting our textile industry. He stressed over the need of educated people in the industry and discussed TIP rankings as an institute in HEC and other comissions.

Mr.Tariq believes that textiles play a very important role in Pakistan’s economy and exports and without supporting this industry, we can not even survive as a country. Later, he highlighted a number of textile graduates of TIP going extremely well in the textile industry. He seemed very optimistic about the future of TIP and textile industry at large. To have an idea about TIP, Mr. Tariq announced a SWOT analysis within students, faculty and even the board of directors. To tell you more about Mr. Tariq and his career, we have found a brief PDF document mentioning his achievements throughout his career.

We wish him good luck for his tenure at TIP and would like to see TIP touch the skies of quality research and academia under his supervision and guidance.