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Angel Chang Angel Chang fashion, designer
Angel Chang is a New York-based fashion designer who creates versatile dressing solutions for worldly women on the go. Her namesake collection, ANGEL CHANG (founded in 2006), grew out of a vision to offer women wardrobes that could actually "do things" beyond just looking good. The collectionís use of innovative materialsóincluding color-changing prints, light-up fabrics, and self-heating liningsówas a first for the American luxury designer market. As a result of these pioneering efforts, the company received the coveted Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award and the prestigious Cartier Womenís Initiative Award within the first year of launching.
CLOTEFI (The Clothing Textile & Fibre Technology Development Company) textile, clothing textile, fibre technology, development company, technological research, scientific and technological services, businesses, organisations, clothing sector, research and technology
The Clothing Textile & Fibre Technology Development Company (CLOTEFI) was founded in 1986 to pursue the application and utilisation of the results of applied and technological research, and to provide scientific and technological services to businesses and organisations in the textile and clothing sector. It operates as a Societe Anonyme, and is under the supervision of the Ministry of Development's General Secretariat for Research & Technology.
Clothing + (Clothing +) 1998 sport applications, company, fibers, wearable, clothing, textiles, sensor system, healthcare applications
Clothing+ vision is to implement comfortable sensor systems for potential application areas like sports, wellbeing, and healthcare. By this step of evolution, sensor systems become comfortable, invisible, and reliable.
Danielle Wilde Danielle Wilde researcher, performance, fashion, fine art, critical, interaction design
Artist and design researcher at Monash University Faculty of Art and Design (Melbourne, Australia) and the CSIRO Division of Materials Science and Engineering (Belmont, Australia). Undertaking practice-based doctoral research, investigating how technology might be paired with the body to poeticise experience, and what this might mean. Research sits at the nexus of performance, fashion, fine art, critical (technology) and interaction design.
Digital Skins Body Atmospheres Nancy Tilbury future visions of clothing, wearable tech
Studio Nancy Tilbury is launching a new website www.studionancytilbury.com Studio Nancy Tilbury is also part of the formation of a new innovative fashioning technology brand called Studio_XO
Eleksen (Eleksen) electro conductive, core technology, interactive apparel, interactive textiles, industries, group, fabric touch pad, fabric touch screen interfaces, sensitive
Peratechís Eleksen division is the world leader in touch sensitive interactive textiles for interactive apparel and soft goods products. The core technology, ElekTex, is a unique QTC-based electro-conductive fabric touch pad optimized for the creation of flexible, durable and rugged fabric touch screen interfaces.
emily crane Emily Crane beta textiles, bio wear, edible, artist
A new breed of designer who is pushing the boundaries of design through materials and process; growing, cultivating and forming new hybrid materials for fashion futures. Borrowing skills from molecular cooking, she is envisioning a future where fast fashion has to respond to a more sustainable future. Setting up a lab in her kitchen, she is growing and freezing bubbles to create a form of bio lace that is both wearable and edible. Micro-Nutrient Couture is a sensory world of transient fashion where no one but the individual will ever wear the same dress again.
Enlighted Designs Janet Hansen light, clothing, design, illuminating, textile
-Janet Cooke Hansen is President and Chief Fashion Engineer of Enlighted Designs, Inc. She founded the business to create her own "dream job" as a light-up clothing designer. Janet's eclectic designs combine her lifelong interests of fashion, art, and technology. She learned to sew at age 7, and installed miniature lights in her own dollhouse. Over the years, her costume-making hobby began to incorporate electronics, with illuminating results. -Enlighted is based in Encinitas, California (in the northern coastal area of San Diego County), and we sell our lighted clothing exclusively through our own website, enlighted.com. We create custom designs for a wide variety of international clients, including professional entertainers in the music industry, as well as for applications in art, theater, dance, television, film, and advertising.
Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis Stella Bruzzi 2001 expositions, art, shopping mall, catwalk, book, contemporary culture, fashion culture
From the catwalk to the shopping mall, from the big screen to the art museum, fashion plays an increasingly central role in contemporary culture. Fashion Cultures investigates why we are so fascinated by fashion and the associated spheres of photography, magazines and television, and shopping.
Fashioning the future Suzanne Lee 2005 textile art, textile and smart technology, new matrials, new technology, creative exploration, innovative directions, tomorrow's wardrobe, Emergent technologies, Future Fashion, book, fashion history, design, accessories, wearable technology
Fashioning the Future is a visionary and creative exploration of where fashion and clothing are heading, the very first guide to the future wardrobe and the emergent technologies making it possible. Ten major themes embrace all kinds of clothing, from The Spray-On Dress to The Talking T-Shirt, all accompanied by Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Joness distinctive images. Both a unique visual journey and an inspirational research tool, this book is aimed at the entire fashion world, design students and global marketeers.
Institute for soldier nanotechnologies (MIT) 2002 nanotechnology, school, institute, research
The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) at MIT is an interdepartmental research center founded in 2002 by a $50 million, five-year contract with the U.S. Army Research Office. Now in its second five-year contract, the mission of the ISN is straightforward: develop and exploit nanotechnology to dramatically improve the survivability of Soldiers. The ultimate goal is to help the Army create a 21st century battlesuit that combines high-tech capabilities with light weight and comfort. Imagine a bullet-resistant jumpsuit, no thicker than ordinary spandex, that monitors health, eases injuries, communicates automatically, and reacts instantly to chemical and biological agents. Itís a long-range vision for how fundamental nanoscience can make Soldiers less vulnerable to enemy and environmental threats.
Lost Values (Distance Lab) 2008 events, collaborations, designers, team, craft, technology, distance lab, shop online, wearable, jewellery, interiors, lighting, type wear, diy, solar, costumized, limited editions, previews, news, smart textile, garment, apparel
-Founded and Directed by designer-maker Elena Corchero, Lost Values holds the vision of innovating craft by melding it with technology and vice versa, to inspire a future where design is environmental and emotional yet smart and playful. Qualities that she believes are important aspects of life but are being forgotten in the quest for faster and more convenient products. http://www.lostvalues.com/ - Distance Lab is a creative research organisation bringing together digital media technology, design and the arts to redefine and overcome the disadvantages of distance in learning, health care, relationships, culture and other domains.
Making is Connecting David Gauntlett DIY, media, book, textile
In Making is Connecting, David Gauntlett argues that through making things, people engage with the world and create connections with each other. Both online and offline, we see that people want to make their mark on the world, and to make connections. During the previous century, the production of culture became dominated by professional elite producers. But today, a vast array of people are making and sharing their own ideas, videos, and other creative material online, as well as engaging in real-world crafts, art projects, and hands-on experiences. Gauntlett argues that we are seeing a shift from a 'sit-back-and-be-told culture' to a 'making-and-doing culture'. People are rejecting traditional teaching and television, and making their own learning and entertainment instead. Drawing on evidence from psychology, politics, philosophy, and economics, he shows how this shift is necessary and essential for the happiness and survival of modern societies.
Media Lab Europe Stefan Agamanolis (Media Lab Europe Human Connectedness research group ) 2005 research, report, website, closed
This web site is a complete document of the work of the Human Connectedness research group during its 3 1/2 year existence at Media Lab Europe (September 2001 - January 2005). Media Lab Europe is now closed, but the vision of the group is still alive. Many former members are continuing their projects independently, and many of the our prototypes are still available for exhibition.
MIT-Media Lab (MIT-Media Lab) 1985 researcher group, atelier, scientists, artists, engineers, lab designers, human capabilities, transform, everyday life, emerging technologies, research, MIT, doing, developing technologies, social, design, interaction, new possibilities
The MIT Media Lab applies an unorthodox research approach to envision the impact of emerging technologies on everyday lifeótechnologies that promise to fundamentally transform our most basic notions of human capabilities. Unconstrained by traditional disciplines, Lab designers, engineers, artists, and scientists work atelier-style in close to 30 research groups conducting more than 400 projects that range from neuroengineering, to how children learn, to developing the city car of the future. Lab researchers foster a unique culture of learning by doing, developing technologies that empower people of all ages, from all walks of life, in all societies, to design and invent new possibilities for themselves and their communities.
Moritz Waldemeyer Moritz Waldemeyer catwalk, choreography, LED, collaborations, fashion, art, technology, innovative, stylist, designer, Hussein Chalayan, wearable technology, visionary
Widely recognised as one of the most innovative and exciting designers of his generation Waldemeyer, aged 34, was born in East Germany. He moved to London thirteen years ago where he trained as an engineer at Kings College and completed his Masters degree in 2001. Since then, he has collaborated with many of the worldís top architects and fashion designers including Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid and Hussein Chalayan. His work is a fusion of technology, art, fashion and design.
Piezing Dress, Muk Luk Flux Amanda Parkes 2008 mechanisms for working prototypes of Tangible User Interfaces, electronics, developing software, Human-Computer Interaction, journals, conferences, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer programming, students, hard-working, technically competent, creative, interactions, digital information, surfaces, physical objects, designing human interfaces, Tangible Bits vision, electrical /mechanical engineering skills, design aesthetics, installations, video performance, wearable technology, creativity
-Amanda Parkes' Piezing generates power using the natural gestures of the human body in motion. Around the joints of the elbows and hips of the garment is piezoelectric material that generates electricity in response to applied mechanical stress. The electricity is then stored as voltage in a centralized small battery and later can be discharged for use. - Muk Lux Flux boots change shape depending on the speed and motion of the wearer.
Premiere Vision (Premiere Vision S.A.) company, fashion, fair, fabric, intrenational
Premiere Vision S.A. is a French company, that has been organizing professional fashion and fabric fairs since 1973. Initially local, the company learned to evolve and acquire a national then international dimension, thanks to its relevant strategic choices and the quality of its services - features recognized all over the world by its exhibitors and visitors. Enjoying a brand name with an international reputation and an image without peer in the world of textile and fashion trade fairs, PremiËre Vision has a leading international event in Paris, which has been spun off in recent years in New York, Shanghai, Beijing, Moscow and Tokyo (inside Jitac). 9-12 Feb. 2010 spring summer 11 Parc d'Expositions de Paris Nord Villepinte
Puff & Flock Kathy Schicker (Puff & Flock-textile design laboratory) academic research, fine arts, material science, design, innovation, share, group, textile designers, storytelling, product design, unconvetional, statement for textiles
We are a recently formed group of textile designers, bound by a shared vision for the future direction of design. Far from the common perception of textile designers as girls who draw flowers, we are individuals who integrate aspects of material science, fine arts, academic research, storytelling, and product design into our practice. Because this broad understanding of textile design is still considered unconventional, we join forces to create a stronger statement for textiles.
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.
Sleep Suit Forrest Jessee 2006 visionary, eva foam, coccoon, feelings of connected and disconnectedness, human body, personal space, designer, concept, product, personal, sleep
The project attempts to challenge the idea of personal space in relationship to the human body and its surrounding environment. The structure of the material, a structural pleat, is used as a means to create feelings of connected and disconnectedness as well as provide varying levels of support for different parts of the body. By thinking of the cut pattern as sections of the body, the structure can act as a semi-permeable outer skin.
Ted Pella (Ted Pella Inc) Semiconductors, Neurosciences, Nanotechnology, Microelectronics, Histology, Forensics, Genetics, Failure Analysis, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Biology, Microscopy, Electron Microprobe Analysis, Electron Microscopy, Materials Science, Metallography, Materialography
Pelco International was formed in 1975 as the export company for Ted Pella, Inc. specializing and understanding the many needs and requirements connected with sending products all over the world. In 2007 Pelco International merged with Ted Pella, Inc. and became the international division of Ted Pella, Inc.
Ten Cate TCGE (Ten Cate) military, interior design, safety and protection, no-UV radiation material, lightweight materials in aircraft, fire-fighting clothing, protective materials, specialist material, chemical processes, textile technology, multinational company, sport and recreations, aerospace, infrastructure, environment, artificial grass, industry
Is a commercial division of TenCate Geosynthetics Europe (TCGE). TCGE is an international company headquartered in Linz, Austria, a manufacturer of both Geosynthetics and Industrial Fabrics.
The Fashion of Architecture Bradley Quinn 2003 book, fashion, architecture, haute couture, catwalk
The Fashion of Architecture is the first attempt to investigate the contemporary relationship between architecture and fashion in considerable depth, by examining the ideas, imagery, techniques and materials used by visionaries such as Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Alexander McQueen, Tadao Ando and Daniel Libeskind. As mavericks ranging from Hussein Chalayan and Rei Kawakubo to Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid describe architectureís role in the formation of fashion identities, new readings of both areas emerge. Probing and far-reaching in its content, The Fashion of Architecture is the most comprehensive study of this exciting area to date.
The solar powered tie (Iowa State University-Department of Apparel, Educational studies & hospitality management) geek, concept, school, new projects, apparel, fun, gadget
Mission Provide integrated yet customized education and scholarship to optimize apparel and related products, services, and experiences. Vision Leadership in education, scholarship and engagement focusing on apparel and related products, services and experiences in a global context. http://www.aeshm.hs.iastate.edu/about.php
Trasformer Fashion Show Hussein Chalayan 2007 sensor, clothes, textile, radical fashion, LED, fashion designer, wearable, visionary, haute couture
Hussein Chalayanís collection consist of dresses that automatically transformed in shape and style. Zippers closed, cloth gathered, and hemlines roseñall without human assistance. Beneath each modelís skirt was a computer system designed by the London-based engineering and concept-creation firm 2D3D.
Unitex (Unitex) networking social, textile research, promoting servicese, textile sector, job offers, bimonthly magazine, international congresses, textile industry, association, research, company, research, Unitex journal
UNITEX is the National Association of (technical) executives of the textile industry in Belgium. Beside members in Belgium, Unitex has also members in other countries ( Netherlands, Germany, France, Portugal, Great-Britain, USA...). It is led by Professor Dr. Marc Van Parys - head of the textile division of the University College of Ghent). Its activities mainly consist of monthly presentations on technical and general topics which might be of interest to the textile industry, as well as the organization of international congresses such as European Coating Congress and World Carpet Congress .
Wearable Technology- Powered Art and Fashion Design 2009 (Netherlands Media Art Institute) 2009 sensors, textiles, social life, fashion design, technologicallt clothing, netherlands media art institute, university, courses, expressive, performative garments, everyday experience
"Wearable Technology & Powered Art and Fashion Design" presents latest developments in the area of technologically augmented clothing. The program crosses the disciplines of fashion design, performance art, wearable computing and interaction design. The selected pieces envision a future in which our second skin, our clothes, become relevant element in our social life, in our communication and interaction with others. This is achieved by embedding electronics seamlessly into the textiles. After the miniaturisation of processors, sensors and batteries designers can now use these to create expressive and performative garments beyond the everyday experience.
Willem de Kooning academie (Hogeschool Rotterdam) haute couture, ready to wear, fashion design, conceptualised collections, physical garments, design, academy, school, students, university, master
Alongside exclusive ëhaute coutureí, ready-to-wear commercial collections for larger or smaller target groups are nowadays becoming increasingly more important in fashion design. Ready-to-wear commercial collections enable consumer groups to communicate their own identities. In their work, fashion designers apply their creative and critical vision to reflect on current developments in their profession and in society at large.
WIRAD (WIRAD (Wales Institute for Research in Art & Design) art, design, research, institute
WIRAD's vision is to become Wales' premier Art & Design research institution with an internationally reputation for cutting edge research in the field. The Institute may eventually become a jointly owned independent entity of its own. By so doing, it will not only serve Wales through stimulation to creative and cultural practices, but also make very evident at an international level the high standing of research in Wales. Research may be commissioned on the contribution Wales might play in the development of pure and applied research within the Art and Design fields; aiming to ensure that the Institute is outward-looking and responsive, serving Wales by serving Europe and beyond.