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Cristina Orozco Cuevas

educational - teaching, tactile

Tuesday, 7 February 2023

Textile Braille

Industrial universal jacquard textile thought as a translator for blind people. This fabric can be read by people with good sight and it is intended for them to help the blind people who are starting to lose sight or having vision problems; in order to learn the braille system with a friendly and common material: fabric. It contains the alphabet, numbers and punctuation marks. No colors are added. It is a product on grey scale as a principle of no light perception. It is a project with social meaning and goes beyond commercial textiles.

Junya Nakai

Fabric

Monday, 6 February 2023

Aqua

About his designing style. He said that the moment when you get something is very important to produce something. Many of his works uses natural raw materials - cotton, silk, and wool etc. He often got inspired by a lot of simple images of nature such as bark Trees, layered leaves or seashells on the beach. Then he wants to get closer to the same images in touch and texture reproduced into his works using natural raw materials as much as he can. Also he is keen on using natural materials which should go back to part of the ground eventually.

Yunhyun Park

Rug

Sunday, 5 February 2023

Boundary

The Boundary is a rug inspired by maps. Rugs are often boring in appearance and functions as only accessories. However, the Boundary of shape is strange, abstract and absolutely asymmetry. The hand drawn topographic patterns are highly symbolic, informative and aesthetic. These patterns are not simply chosen for its beauty or due to personal preferences. Designer intended to represent the certain region where territory disputes occur and aimed to remind people social issues in an elegant way. Design is easily customizable, other regional topographical images can be produced for next series.

Yiyuan Kuang

Fabric

Saturday, 4 February 2023

Shuttle

Based on jacquard woven technique and combining with the concept of semi-shaped clothing, it arouses curiosity about looking for the innovative and prospective fashion design. This project, which is called ‘Shuttle’, is inspired by the unique relationship between water and land and how they interconnect one another. With free flowing water movements and simplified outline of landscape, they come together to inspire and create new fabric.

Helen S. Koo, Jason Lin & Jasmine Zhou

Transformable fabric

Friday, 3 February 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.

bioLogic team

self-transforming biological skin

Thursday, 2 February 2023

bioLogic

The bioLogic team explored how bacterial properties can be applied to fabric and formed into living interfaces between body and environment. They found novel ways of using Natto bacteria, which move in response to humidity change. The team harvested Natto cells and applied them to fabric with custom 3D printers.The cell-infused fabric was used to make sport garments. As fabric in the suit reacts to perspiration, tiny vents over bodily heat zones open and close allowing for rapid cooling. In fall 2015, these suits featured in a live ballet performance.

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