New Textiles 2011

Final Project

‘Drink Me’ Water Bottle Cozy

For the final project, I decided to make a water bottle cozy that reminds you to drink. I initially got the idea because I often get dehydrated especially when working at a desk all day. I have a water bottle in front of me, but just don’t think about it. I wanted something to actively [...]

Deja Vu

by Heidi and Nicole Ladies, have you ever left the house without your cell phone? Locked yourself out without your keys? Paused mid step to hurriedly search your bag for items you thought you may have forgotten? Deja Vu is here to help. The newly developed intelligent bag boasts an RFID system that helps you [...]

Moving screen

The repeated elements of textile designs not only create a sense of rythm, but they can be quite mesmerizing. While they are capable of creating a sense of movement, in reality they are of often static. As a textile designer,  I have always been interested in the idea of a textile that is capable of [...]

Albert’s Amarino-Powered Kung-Fu Jacket

How do you talk to a jacket?  There was a time when if you did, people would look at you a little bit funny. These days, with a little thing called an Android phone, a powerful little circuitboard called Lilypad Arduino, and an amazing toolkit called Amarino developed by Bonifaz Kaufmann, you can talk to [...]

Archigram Skirt featuring Walking City

Last semester, I became very interested in Archigram. As a final project for one of my classes, I modeled and rendered an animation of Walking City. In my final project proposal for this class,  I proposed making a dress that featured Walking City and included charlie plexing circuitry for a scatter/sparkly lighting effect. After speaking [...]

Game for Gettysburg

Inspired by an earlier project on the PCB Puzzle, I wanted to use the same concept to develop a game for an online site that teaches 5th graders about the civil war. The embroidery process and writing code in Processing was challenging.  The various pieces had to fit properly. When pieces were sewn separately, the [...]

Final Project Presenatations and Documentation

Due: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 See student final projects here Your final project assignment has 3 pieces: the project itself, a short presentation about the project, and a web page documenting the project. Information about presentations and documentation is below.