Posted: February 19th, 2010 | Author: k.a. | Filed under: design example | Tags: living entity | No Comments »
Fragilis, sensitive garments, is a prototype mini-collection of two pieces: the heartdress which pulsates irregularly, and the veindress which glows. The two pieces react on each other through breathing, shaking, – as a way of simulating intelligence. The veindress uses electro-luminance wires for nuance light, the heartdress has a servomotors and woven thread to create movement.
The two pieces are good examples within the category of “living entity”, one of the directions I have decided to work on. They work well “alone”, as two independent pieces, but the idea of having them sense and react on each other, expands and creates a small system of its own.
Anouk Wipprecht concept-construction
Eelke Feenstra coding interface design
Posted: February 12th, 2010 | Author: k.a. | Filed under: design example | No Comments »
Mare Vaccaro, a New York based artist, “investigates the deconstructed female form and its relationship to femininity, beauty and empty adornment”. Mare´s body is hairless as a result of having alopecia universalis, a genetic miscoded medical condition, and she defines herself as a blank canvas, without a created persona. She uses the blank deconstructed form to explore “created” self-designed expression which assimilates societal expectations of femininity.
Photo´s are selected from Mare Vaccaro´s
web site and
Institute 193, where she has an upcoming exhibition called Multiple Personalities.
By shifting material and form of the collars, her persona change personality, and expression. Her work is very inspiring for my thesis in terms of how she is elaborating and playing with her identity, and creating “characters”.
Posted: February 11th, 2010 | Author: k.a. | Filed under: design example | Tags: mirror brooch | No Comments »
The Mirror Brooch, made by Kajsa G Eriksson, as part of her PhD, is simply a mirror used as a brooch. Kajsa says that “by the conscious wearing of the Mirror Brooch, I am positioning this piece of work of art in a ‘slot’ or a time-spacing that is made up of different kinds of communication in everyday life”. Anything worn, as a dress, in this case the Mirror Brooch, is a non-verbal medium of communication, and has it greatest effect before conversations take place, Kajsa states. Wearing the Mirror Brooch makes you more accessible and available, in public spaces, and that can be perceived as difficult.
On Kajsa’s PhD web site the title ‘Reflective Fashion: Dress, Art and Engagement in Public Space is found. She´s been exploring how clothes create meaning, and in designing clothes, the attention has not only been on the clothes themselves, but “on the social interaction they take part in, a kind of ‘social fashion’. Further Kajsa says that since we wear the garment, unlike other artifacts, it embodies both identity and appearance. The simultaneous activity of using, performing and observing, what her project is about, she calls a form of mimetic design [1].
[1] Leich, Neil,. (2006) Camouflage, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press
Posted: February 6th, 2010 | Author: k.a. | Filed under: design example | No Comments »
Feeds scrolled on a giant flashing necklace, and images shown on a translucent bag. British singer Imogen Heaps let her fans take part of the Grammy, by her social media-enabled dress. “ Just thought it´d be nice for them to come with me so I´ve got a live Twitter feed from them,” she told The Times.
[Via ecouterre and Waldemeyer]
The twitter dress is not really fitting in my frame or areas of interest, but I eventually decided to post it as an example of how wearable computing, or fashioning technology (definition very), are used in a “real” context, and not existing as an exhibition piece, or being a visioning concept of the future.
Posted: January 29th, 2010 | Author: k.a. | Filed under: design example | Tags: express emotions | 1 Comment »
One direction within modular moves would be to use wearable for expressing emotions, and possible enhance , highlight/ underline them. I found an example called communication apparel which is just about that. Alis Cambol, an interaction designer at frog design in New York, did as part of her Master Thesis at Parsons, apparel enhanced with technology, – augmenting non-verbal communication between strangers. Photos in this post shows a dress inspired by the frilled lizard – their collar raises in moments of aggression and fear, as they try to give an impression of being bigger than they really are.
Posted: January 19th, 2010 | Author: k.a. | Filed under: design example | Tags: design example | 1 Comment »
Week 1 – blog name chosen, – moduar moves – which happen to become name of thesis project as well, at least for now. Thesis semester started off with class meeting Monday 18 Jan. Very good… we are having weekly meetings where we present our individual projects, very informal in its format, and we give each other feedback / critique. Personally, those meetings are super valuable, they give structure on 20 weeks of solo work.
Blog set up… class meeting held… met my adviser as well, Kristina Lindström. Thinkering of experiment, directions came up with the model “cycle of sth” – will present it more in detail later on… beside logging thoughts and activities, examples of wearables will be presented, selections of what will become, and be part of my “collection of examples”. Mapping the area of wearables is one main reason of gathering examples; another reason is of course for inspiration; and in this project I´ll use the design examples in the process. First week – first post – first example:
ClickSneaks – Despina Papadopoulos, Studio 5050 with Thomas Gregotiandes (2005). My ambition is as well to use “critique techniques”, do close “readings” of examples, – though, playfulness and simplicity will do for now.
