New Textiles 2011

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 [...]