Toward Design Magazine

YIYI KWOK by YIYI GUO

Digital Print Scarf

Thursday, 16 May 2024

Swim

The artist got inspiration from a dream: one day she became a fish, swimming in layers of paper-cut ocean with friends. Then she started to make this dream into reality. Starting by drawing hundreds of two-dimensional abstract Chinese paper cut patterns which contain different blessings and sketching out plentiful postures of fishes. Then the artist drew and re-mixed those elements with creative software by expressing them into a three-dimensional, realistic effect just like oil painting rich in lights and shadows. It’s an attempt of crashing eastern art expression with western.

Hongming Ge

Scarf

Wednesday, 15 May 2024

China Town

The Forbidden City is the imperial palace, the symbol architecture of Beijing, and the representative model of the Chinese traditional royal architecture. The grandness of the buildings in the Forbidden City and the symbolic royal colors, especially the red and golden are the integration between the historical culture and the fashionable daily goods design. It expresses the mighty authority of the royal architecture by the gorgeous feelings of the real silk and enhances the interesting visual feelings by the ways of modern design.

Sheng Qiu

Textile Design

Tuesday, 14 May 2024

The Weight Of Textile Story

Sheng Qiu's work was inspired by Milan Kundera's novel "The unbearable lightness of being". Designer is against throwawayism. Sheng Qiu aims to offer aesthetically and luxury durable products. In addition, designer asks people to question the social value of textiles, which in turn may inspire us to think more deeply about ourselves. Its contemporary design, using both digital and hand-drawn techniques, the vivid colours and the its multiple uses make it unique.

Helen S. Koo, Jason Lin & Jasmine Zhou

Transformable fabric

Monday, 13 May 2024

Enfold

Enfold is a transformable smart textile incorporated clothing that can be automatically worn by folding and changing the details using origami and shape memory alloy (SMA). This wearable medium is to assist those who have trouble dressing by allowing the garment to wrap around and fit the wearer without outside help. The SMA remembers its original shape and after the alloy is bent, it goes back to the original shape when it is heated. By employing SMA in the folds of fabric, the fabric can be as transformable.

Riadh Bouaziz

Innovative Fabric for Original Bathrobes

Sunday, 12 May 2024

TIMELESS by RKF

TIMELESS is RKF LUXURY LINEN's new fabric. It's patent pending. The goal is to offer comfortable and good-looking bathrobes for worldwide spas and hotels. The technical advantages are : An eco-friendly fabric. Very comfortable (High Absorption performance). And it has a really long lifespan. The fabric has also a specific look. It fits well the body and it's iron-free. We design different bathrobes with it, especially one who looks like a trench-coat. This is a special approach in the garments' industry for spa: it's couture.

Qian Yang

Water-Repellent & Oil-Resistant T-Shirt

Saturday, 11 May 2024

Joss

Joss is a line of designer t-shirts endeavors fusion of art and technology to create a unique process where illustration design and material design happen simultaneously to convey an interdisciplinary artifact of intricacy. It embraces the eternal topics of love,life and death with high-tech nanofabric NanoJ. Its outstanding water-repellent and oil-resistant property is realized through a unique manipulation to orderly attach nanoparticles on the fabric’s fiber -more durable and comfortable, versus other water-repellent fabrics in the market have nanoparticles “cross-linked” without order.