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Ozgun Kilic Afsar
Self Sensing Morphing Textiles
Tuesday, 29 April 2025

OmniFiber

OmniFiber is a soft robotic fiber technology for autonomous textiles and garments. A novel microfluidic fiber actuator is engineered with gesture programmability, that can sense its own physical deformation and mechanically respond to it. OmniFiber has versatile morphing behavior, multimodal haptic feedback, high frequency response, high strain and force output which allow designers to flexibly weave them into everyday interactions such as kinesthetic wearables for skill learning and transfer, dynamic fitting garments, and textile-based haptic devices for telepresence applications.

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Tsai Jung Chiang
Printed Textile
Monday, 28 April 2025

The Withering Flower

The Withering Flower is a celebration of the power of the flower image. The flower is a popular subject written as personification in Chinese literature. In contrast to the blooming flower’s popularity, images of the decaying flower are often associated with jinx and taboos. The collection looks at what shapes a community’s perception on what is sublime and abject. Designed in 100cm to 200cm length of tulle dresses, silkscreen printing on translucent mesh fabrics, the textile technique allows the prints to stay opaque and stretchy on mesh, creating an appearance of prints afloat in the air.

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Khajornsak Nakpan
Fibre Fashion
Sunday, 27 April 2025

Bio Melanin

The practice-led research and design investigated the use of soil to create a substitute textile material in Thailand. It aims to maximize the value of natural resources in response to climate change, based on the concept of living in harmony with nature. A bio-fibre was synthesized from soil bacteria through a process that holistically considered the full production cycle, ensuring that it generated no waste. The final material contained melanin pigments similar to human skin tones, with hues comparable to those of people from Thailand.

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Liangshan Wu
Quilt
Saturday, 26 April 2025

Jing Series

Mendale's First Cicada Wing Patented Super Soft Fabric. After thousands of material ratios, the fabrics are extremely soft and skin-friendly. At the same time, adopted imported Italian blended fabric, the exquisite texture and the bright color bring a sense of hierarchy, which is high-quality raw materials, delicate and soft. Besides, it is made into a removable cover at the head of the quilt. Filed with imported Polish white goose down, its authoritative pure breed can be traced, fluffy and warm.

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Liangshan Wu
Quilt
Friday, 25 April 2025

Polish White Goose Down Series

Imported high-quality Polish white goose down whose authoritative pure breed can be traced, fluffy and warm. The patented Warmsoft air flapping process increases the softness by 30%, making it warm and heat-storing. With 59° staggered structure, the temperature locking effect is increased by 15%. The micro-angle "wind lock" is suitable for human body, so that there is no wind when sleeping.

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Chen Bingrou
Rubber Rings Fabric
Thursday, 24 April 2025

Xun

This fabric is made from rubber rings by a special weaving technique suitable for annular materials. It can weave rubber rings together to be a reticular fabric and convert them into wearable designs but not cause any damage to the annular structure that all the materials inside the fabric are intact and can be reused. In addition, It does not require professional skill and special tools that even laymen without any weaving experience can easily use this craft. Everyone can knit his own clothes easily by this way.

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Design team of the day
Special Coverage
Tuesday, 22 April 2025

World's greatest design teams.

Sometimes you need a very big team of talented designers to come up with truly great designs. Everyday, we feature a distinct award-winning innovative and creative design team. Explore and discover original and creative architecture, good design, fashion, graphics design and design strategy projects from design teams worldwide. Get inspired by the original works by grand master designers.

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