Alex Pentland & Smart wearables

shape memory

Techno Textiles

Here is the key book on the key materials in art, design and shaping the environment in the 21st century. Building on the cult success of Techno Textiles , this book, newly available in paperback, features developments over the past decade. Highlighting advanced textiles in production and available to the designer, artist, architect and consumer today, it will be required reading for professionals, fashion and design aficionados and anyone prepared to be stimulated by and informed about the environment in which we now live.

Arduino lilypad

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Do we still need graphic designers?

A Poster Wall for the 21st Century

On the occasion of the opening of the new Graphic Design Museum in Breda (NL) the posterwall for the 21st century was launched, both online and as an installation in the museum itself. In the museum 600 unique posters are automatically generated daily using content gathered from various internet sources. Online, one new poster is generated every five minutes. Constantly new and updated, the posters contain content covering a range of topics such as cultural events, news, weather, etc. In the museum it’s placed at the end of the overview exhibition ‘100 Years of Graphic Design in the Netherlands’. It attempts to provide insight into the direction graphic design might go in the future while posing the question: ‘Do we still need graphic designers?’

Dress

Fluid Dress from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo.

WearOut

This project is about wearables that take shape
once the wearer have used them.

What if the wearer could become whoever he is without having to choose
a certain representation in his outfit?
Is it possible to approach fashion design without
imposing a certain model to follow?

The outcome from these premises is a movement promoting diversity and diversity achieved through movement.
Since movement is as individual as our fingerprints, a design that takes into account motion becomes singular to each person. The design effortlessly adapts to the body’s movement. The mechanism applied on the fabric breaks when there is pressure and adjusts to the wearer. By using movement as a catalyzer of change in the object, the garment takes its final form once each person has used it.
By encouraging individual diversity, I hope to promote tolerance towards difference.
http://carolinareis.com/wearout.html

Video: http://vimeo.com/14248210

Sensoring

Voice knitting machine

Die Voice Knitting Machine komt voort uit een project van Hanna Wiesener en Magdalena Kohler voor Ars Electronica in 2007. De breimachine heette toen nog ‘Gelsomina’. Een breimachine uit de jaren 70 werd gehackt zodat hij interactief werd, bediend door stemgeluid. Met een microcontroller en 24 motortjes werd een patroonkaart nagemaakt zoals de breimachine die leest.
Trikoton

1Enough - Fashion: we can enjoy less

Een sjaal met een egale kleur, ontvangt na het wassen een print. Je was gedrag bepaald de aanwezigheid van de print. Hierdoor zal iedere sjaal uniek zijn.


Panty’s waarin bijzonder laders/gaten ontstaan, als deze gedragen wordt. De panty wordt mooier en bijzonderder. Het laat zien dat iets wat in de norm kapot is, iets uniek kan zijn. En zelfs mooier!

A vase grown from mould

Mould – meaning both a cast and a fungus – is a research into how a product can be brought to life. Thomas Pleeging mixed some mycelium (the underground part) from edible shelf fungi and oyster mushrooms with cotton fibre, and put them inside a mould. After a few weeks they had formed a sturdy web that would keep its shape. The design, a vase in this case, could be harvested. ‘A bunch of flowers will bring life into your home, but in this case, the vase, too, will be a living thing.’ - By Thomas Pleeging

The ‘Decay’ project explores how traces of time and use can be embedded in textile. By wearing a carbon fibre suit over a white blouse, textile designer Marie Ilse Bourlanges captured the gestures of the body bending, stretching, scratching and rubbing. The transfer imprint on the blouse was then translated into a pattern of lines that ebb and flower across the textile.

108

one hundred and eight from Nils Völker on Vimeo.

Debug

Debug - Art made by insects from Edhv on Vimeo.

Debug 3D from Edhv on Vimeo.

Inspiratie