Toward Design Magazine

Toward Design Magazine

Toward Design Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Palms

Textile pattern Palms are vibrant colours and mixed lines to reflect the lively and festive atmosphere of Gulf festivals, where communities come together to celebrate their heritage through music, dance, and traditional arts. The repeated pattern of palm trees, symbolizing the abundance and prosperity of the region, adds a sense of movement and rhythm to the design. These elements are reimagined and digitally enhanced to create a dynamic and visually striking design that celebrates the beauty of the region.

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Mama's Collection

Introducing Mama's Collection Autumn Winter 2023, where every stitch is inspired by the boundless imagination and playful spirit of our little explorers. Designed to prioritize comfort and adventure, the garments boast loose fits and are crafted from luxuriously soft, sustainable fabrics, perfect for all-day play both indoors and outdoors. The textile designs seamlessly blend fashion-forward aesthetics with timeless appeal, ensuring that each piece reflects thoughtful design and enduring style. Mama's Collection difference; where conscious craftsmanship meets limitless creativity.

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DefeXtiles

DefeXtiles is a textile fabrication technique that produces thin and flexible fabrics on standard 3D printers. The method controls under-extrusion so that small globs form with fine strands between them. The resulting periodic gaps give a woven appearance, breathability, flexibility and stretch, even with rigid materials such as polylactic acid. The fabric is printed perpendicular to the print bed, so pleated, curved and complex shapes can be made. Applications include garments, tangible interfaces and toys.

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New York

Unisex scarves with unique digitally-printed contemporary patterns produced using a bespoke software programme called MovISee that uses body movement to reconstruct digital data such as photos and reveal organic details not possible solely by computer programming. The software enables the designer to create asymmetrical and non-repeat patterns, resulting in multifaceted and playful scarves that can be worn in different ways according to ones mood or occasion, and are unlike any other products in the textiles or fashion accessories market.

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Effect Of Paradox

Effect Of Paradox is a textile print design created for fashion products. The pattern shows the glittering shapes of bioluminescent plankton on the sea, drawn as clear blue flowers in bloom. The motif was made with a graphic tablet, and overlapping layers give a mysterious underwater effect. One repeat measures 180 by 130 millimetres, and colour and scale can be adjusted. The pattern is printed on satin by digital textile printing and can be applied to blouses, dresses, scarves and bags. The intent is to share the beauty of recovered nature.

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Random Puff

Random Puff is a novel puffer that uses 4D embroidery puffs for insulation. Puffs are initially fabricated flat and pop up into domes when exposed to heat. The activated puffs then trap air between the outer environment and the wearer’s body to keep them warm. The development involves the creation of a library of 4D embroidery material interactions between active fibers and static fabrics. Designers and developers can use computational design tools to work collaboratively with end-users, creating novel textile and softgood designs that are high-tech fashion, personalized and sustainable.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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