Featured Blog Posts – September 2009 Archive (13)

Pattern and Form Shifting Clothing

pattern changing clothing

Going beyond a graphic T, designer Joanne Hodge focused on pattern changing clothing with delicate details and magical effects for her master's degree project at the University of Dundee.

Joanne's garments are both passively and actively interactive: they not only respond and react to their… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 23, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Iron On technique for Fabric PCBs

I created this technique report some time ago. I hope you guys find it useful.

Iron On Jen Web

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Added by Jennifer Dopazo on September 18, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Dynamic, Pattern-changing T

Thermochromatic T

A collaboration between Moondial and Viennese fashion label Wendy & Jim, Sun Nº01 is a limited-edition graphic T printed with a mix of ordinary and smart, uv-sensitive inks. The pattern on the T animates in sunlight, revealing a mythological part human, part zebra creature.

Watch the animation of the T-shirt… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 17, 2009 at 8:36pm — No Comments

Dress that Monitors Breathe

Pneuma_LEDDress

Practically the only time I am aware of my breathe is during my yoga practice—even then if it wasn't for the cautious reminder by my instructor I would simply forget, for minutes at a time, to breathe.

Designer Synne Geirsdatter Frydenberg wants to use fashion to draw attention to one's breathe. Pneuma is a white, embroidered dress speckled with LEDs that monitors the breathing movement of the wearer around the waist (not chest) via a… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 16, 2009 at 2:53pm — No Comments

Fashion & Illuminated Bodies

Over_All-Fashion & Illuminated Bodies

The tiny LED light is quickly becoming the signature of any and every wearable technology project. For many designers, there is something irresistible about creating a luminous silhouette.

Robert Zeise, in his piece Over_All, creates two suits patterned with phosphorescent (glow-in-the-dark) and photochromic inks. The suits themselves do not emit light: Instead they are catalysts that trigger lights to turn on in the the room based on… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 14, 2009 at 12:09pm — No Comments

textile stretch sensing

I was really lucky recently to work with some brilliant textile specialists to create these forms looking at aesthetic approaches to embedding stretch sensing.

Aeolia by Sarah Kettley in collaboration with Tina Downes (embroidery), Martha Glazzard (knit), Nigel Marshall (weave) and Karen Harrigan (fit).

Playing with the Merlin carbon rubber stretch sensor in various textile structures. With support from New Media Scotland,… Continue

Added by Sarah Kettley on September 14, 2009 at 7:55am — 2 Comments

Fashion Camp NYC 2009

Oh how I wish I was in New York right now! Fashion Camp NYC is going on starting tomorrow and it's not to be missed. Mainstream Fashion, Indie Fashion, and Wearable Technology come together for a weekend of open workshops, presentations, and networking.

Alison Lewis from I Heart Switch and Diana Eng from Fashion Nerd will… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 11, 2009 at 12:05pm — No Comments

Clothing that Tickles

First came the Hug Shirt by Cute Circuit that gave us the ability to send hugs over a distance.

Then came the massage jacket SOS, developed by a group of MIT students, that allowed us to… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 10, 2009 at 12:03pm — No Comments

White Pages — Surfacing a Garment's Story

Wearable Tech

The belief that "every garment carries a certain story for its wearer" is the driving force behind Daniel Schulze's and Hanna Wiesener's poetic project titled "White Pages."

As part of the E-motion project at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Schulze and Wiesener created two… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 9, 2009 at 9:57am — No Comments

Interactive Fashion Gets Personal

E-motion - Interactive Fashion

E-motion is an interactive fashion project developed by ten students from the Fashion, Product and Interface Design Departments at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and the Institute of Fashion and Textile Design (IBT).

The project resulted in eight visionary outfits at the intersection of design, art, science and philosophy. In these wearables, clothing is utilized as a… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 8, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Social Knitworking & Reflective Knitwear

Social Knitworking

Social Knitworking is another fabulous project to come out of the distance lab in Scotland. Developed by designer Hilary Grant and chief executive/research director of distance lab Stefan Agamanolis, Social Knitworking creates a tangible artifact out of our intangible… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 3, 2009 at 7:38pm — 1 Comment

Human Antenna

Human Antenna is a project by Swiss designer Florian Kräutli who is currently working in the Netherlands.

The lush, white carpet is interwoven with conductive thread and transforms anyone who stands and walks across the carpet into a human antenna.

The carpet picks up the radio waves which your body receives and makes them "hearable." When… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 1, 2009 at 12:12pm — 1 Comment

Halo- The LED Spray Can

LED Spray Can for Light Graffiti

Fashioning Technology member Krissie J's UV LED Glove post (check it out if you haven't it) reminds me of Halo— the LED Spray Can project that I've been meaning to post.

LED Spray Can for Light Graffiti