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Sheng Qiu
Textile Design
Sunday, 12 November 2023

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.

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Hongming Ge
Scarf
Saturday, 11 November 2023

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.

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YIYI KWOK by YIYI GUO
Digital Print Scarf
Friday, 10 November 2023

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.

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Helen S. Koo, Jason Lin & Jasmine Zhou
Transformable fabric
Thursday, 9 November 2023

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.

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Riadh Bouaziz
Innovative Fabric for Original Bathrobes
Wednesday, 8 November 2023

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.

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Aya Kawabata
Textile
Tuesday, 7 November 2023

Sun and Night

Creatively, Aya like using abstract subject matter and imagery because she want every viewer to bring their own unique background and ideas to viewing the work. She really want people to have an individual experience. Technically, this textile creates harmony through the color and texture of yarns. Jaquared weaving is an old technique that allows the combination of warp and weft to result in new colors. Jaquared also creates tiny, three-dimensional structures on the surface of the weave to give the work a different texture as you view it from different angles.

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Design legend of the day
Special Coverage
Sunday, 5 November 2023

Legendary designers and their award-winning works.

Design Legends are extremely famous designers who make our World a better place with their good designs. Discover legendary designers and their innovative product designs, original art works, creative architecture, outstanding fashion designs and design strategies. Enjoy and explore original design works of award-winning designers, artists, architects, innovators and brands worldwide. Get inspired by creative designs.

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