Two exciting calls for upcoming conference events on craft, fashion and technology! Open Source Hardware Association in partnership with Eyebeam Art + Technology Centre are organizing the Read more.....
Nothing is more démodé than the car. Automobiles are ruining our economies with rampant gas-guzzling, our environment with excess pollution, and the safety of our streets and cities with expanding car lanes and speed. In Orson Welles' 1942 film "The Magnificent Ambersons," which takes place in the upper-class setting of Indianapol... Read more.....
Digital textile printing has taken fashion by a storm. The spring runways were pulsating with custom-designed Technicolor and graphic photographs, and designs and printed specifically for the cut of a garment. I see this trend as growing in a near future where print and textile patterns will be designed in tandem, both economizing material and having the print accentuate the specific cut of a garment. As a result of commercial digital textile printers and small-manufacturing knitting machines, f...
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An interview by the wearables start-up research group SF FASHION+TECH with Kristin Neidlinger from SENSOREE about the recent Fashi... Read more.....
An interview by the wearables start-up research group SF FASHION+TECH with Kristin Neidlinger from SENSOREE about the recent Fashi... Read more.....
I just published an interview with the fantastic Dutch-based fashiontech designer Anouk Wipprecht on the Fashioning Technology Blog. Anouk is a leading example of what a background i... Read more.....
I just published an interview with the fantastic Dutch-based fashiontech designer Anouk Wipprecht on the Fashioning Technology Blog. Anouk is a leading example of what a background i... Read more.....
Adafruit industries is adding some competition in the field of wearable technologies hardware. For a while now, e-textiles experimentation has become synonymous with Leah Buechley's LilyPad Arduino, which... Read more.....
Adafruit industries is adding some competition in the field of wearable technologies hardware. For a while now, e-textiles experimentation has become synonymous with Leah Buechley's LilyPad Arduino, which... Read more.....
3lectromode was recently featured in the FashionWare Show as part 2012 International CES fair in Las Vegas!
This is the US mega-tech event where all eyes are... Read more.....
3lectromode was recently featured in the FashionWare Show as part 2012 International CES fair in Las Vegas!
This is the US mega-tech event where all eyes are... Read more.....
The big question in wearable technologies is: when is it going to hit the market? There is a large chasm between research, application, design, and market-ready goods. Fortunately there are some companies out there who are specifically looking into de... Read more.....
The big question in wearable technologies is: when is it going to hit the market? There is a large chasm between research, application, design, and market-ready goods. Fortunately there are some companies out there who are specifically looking into de... Read more.....
We need your vote for SXSW Wearable Tech Panel: Organized by Odette Valentin, a graduate student at Brunel University. The SXSW Wearable Tech Panel is centered around the topic of “open design” and its relationship to wearable technology development. Panelists include: Otto von Busch – author of ‘FASHION-able: Hacktivism and Engaged Fashion Design’. Mary Huang [...]...
This series of blog posts are an analysis of the works recently presented at the V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media Text_Lab “Clothing without Cloth” event I curated which included: Emily Crane (UK), Carole Collet (UK), Christien Meindertsma (NL), Grado Zero Espace (IT), Pauline van Dongen (NL) and Freedom of Creation (NL). When I fist [...]...
When I fist encountered Christien Meindertsma's work, I was captivated by her novel approach to unlocking the "hidden" potentials of information/practices/materials. Meindertsma became well known for her projec... Read more.....
When I fist encountered Christien Meindertsma's work, I was captivated by her novel approach to unlocking the "hidden" potentials of information/practices/materials. Meindertsma became well known for her projec... Read more.....
This series of blog posts are an analysis of the works recently presented at the V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media Text_Lab “Clothing without Cloth” event I curated which included: Emily Crane (UK), Carole Collet (UK), Christien Meindertsma (NL), Grado Zero Espace (IT), Pauline van Dongen (NL) and Freedom of Creation (NL). Textile Futures: Central [...]...
Central Saint Martins is famous in regards to high fashion and couture, having shepherded countless avant-garde luminaries such as Hussein Chalayan, John Galliano, Christopher Kane, Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo, Zac Posen, Gareth Pugh, Riccardo Tisci, Matthew W... Read more.....