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Designboom industrial design today, courses, education, competitions, history, contemporary, shop, interviews, snapshots, design-aerobics
with more than 2,500,000 readers a month from over 190 countries, (including 250,000 subscribers to our monthly newsletter) designboom.com is the leading independent publication for key contemporary issues and the critique of all aspects of design, especially those topics which enrich the dialogue between design, creative professionals, industry and society. the milan-based, free internet resource offers snapshot reports from major international design shows, architecture and art exhibitions; interviews and portraits of the protagonists in the contemporary creative scene; design history and in-depth information on the creators of design classics.
Fashionable Technology Sabine Seymour 2008 Hussein Chalayan, New York University, XS Labs, MIT Media Lab, Burton, Philips, companies and artists, research institutes, clothing, fabrics, fashion design, wearables, electronic textile, book, Cute Circuit, fashionable technology, projects, conceps, schools, prototypes
Over 50 well-known designers, research institutes, companies and artists, among them Philips, Burton, MIT Media Lab, XS Labs, New York University, Hussein Chalayan, Cute Circuit or International Fashion Machines are introduced by means of their latest, often still unpublished, project, and a survey of their work to date. Given for the first time is a list of all the relevant information on research institutes, materials, publications etc. A must for all those wishing to know everything about fashionable technology.
Maggie Orth Maggie Orth artist, interactive, physical interfaces, wearable computing, electronic textiles, interactive textile musical instruments
Maggie Orth is an artist and technologist who designs and invents interactive textiles in Seattle, WA. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of International Fashion Machines, Inc. Orth received her Phd. in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab in June 2001. Her academic work at the Media Lab (1997-2001) included patents, research, publications and design in new physical interfaces, wearable computing, electronic textiles, and interactive textile musical instruments.
re: skin Mary Flanagan 2002 skin, book, publication, body, technology, vision
In re: skin, scholars, essayists and short story writers offer their perspectives on skin's boundary and surface, as metaphor and physical reality. The twenty-first century and its attendant technology call for a new investigation of the intersection of body, skin, and technology. These cutting-edge writings address themes of skin and bodily transformation in an era in which we are able not only to modify our own skins by plastic surgery, tattooing, skin graft art, and other methods but to cross skins, merging with other bodies or colonizing multiple bodies.
Rights Through Making Ambra Trotto, Kees Overbeeke, Caroline Hummels, Elisabetta Cianfanelli, Joep Frens, Michael Cruz, Gabriele Goretti (TU/e Industrial Design, Universit‡ degli studi di Firenze-Corso di Laurea in Disegno Industriale) manifesto, statement, website, publication
Rights Through Making suggests using the power of design to pave the way for a new approach to our global problems. It seems that we have touched upon the limits of the rationalistic model. Words and communication often overshadow actions and deeds, instead of jointly working towards a solution.
TexWorld (Messe Frankfurt) 2010 shirting, cotton, prints, functional fabrics, fibres, wool-blends, wool, silky aspects, silk, lace, embroidery, trims and accessories producers, garment manufacturers, clothing fabrics, marketplace, event, linen, denim, knitted fabrics, trims & accessories, clothing, style, publications
Texworld is the marketplace for discovering handmade and industrial textiles from all over the world. Embroidery, lace, silk, silky aspects, wool, wool-blends, fibres, functional fabrics, prints, cotton, shirting, linen, denim, knitted fabrics, trims & accessories, clothing, style, publications.