Building Fashion workshop in Paris, France.
The Architectural Association School of Architecture in Paris, France offers a ten-day workshop twice a year exploring computational design, fashion, and architecture. Here’s what they say about it:
Students will aim at exploring novel morphologic, tectonic, and spatial repertoires, understanding their inherent qualities, and proposing new possible futures in architectural production and clothing design innovation. For this purpose, an international team of instructors will lead students to simultaneously experiment with design and making via computationally advanced design strategies and physical research based investigations.
For those of you in Europe or with the opportunity to go, they are now accepting applications for fall 2011. Everyone else can have a look at some of their projects and experiments from the spring workshop in their Flickr gallery.
More images after the jump!
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Make your own stuff using: 3D Printing, Laser Cutting
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Computational Couture
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Continuum is a new project by Mary Huang which allows you to design your own version of the iconic “little black dress” with the help of an interactive app and digital fabrication. The app transforms your drawing into a 3D model built from triangles. The triangles are then cut from black fabric with a laser cutter or plotter before being sewn into a dress.
Read more about the project on the Kickstarter page, and consider making a pledge to help it become a commercial reality. You can also try out the app (still in progress) for yourself.
Posted in Fashion + Textiles, Laser Cutting, Mass Customization, Taylor Gilbert by Taylor Gilbert | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: Laser Cutting
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Sewing friendly laser cutting you should try
When you think “laser cutting”, the product that most likely come to mind are rigid cut out shapes or 3D objects assembled from flat planes. However, laser cutting can work on a more tactile level, and there are materials available in the Ponoko/RazorLAB/Formulor/Vectorealism catalogues that enable a completely different kind of 3D making – sewing. I’m talking soft materials, such as various thicknesses of leather and felt. We have examples and free design files for each of these materials: russet leather camera case, felt shoulder bag, upholstery leather wallet
One of the great advantages of using these materials, is their fast cutting time. As usual, there are a few tricks when it comes to working with leather and felt, especially when you’re designing for sewing.
Here are a few points to consider:
- Thick material requires stronger & thicker thread, which means bigger stitch holes
- Thicker material can have longer stitch length
- Seam allowance: leather 2mm+, felt 5mm+
- Will you use overcast or straight stitching for the seams?
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Posted in Fashion + Textiles, Functional Art + Objects, Laser Cutting, Yana Skaler by yana | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: Laser Cutting
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Speaker hat, extruded plastic dress; I’ll take it all!
One of my new favorite fashion designers is Iris van Herpen.
I recently waxed poetic about her entire fashion career including her lasercut and 3D printed looks from the Spring/Summer 2011 ready-to-wear shows.
And for her Paris couture week debut, Ms. van Herpen has once again exceeded expectations.
This latest collection, entitled Escapism, features twelve couture styles evoking a truly futuristic fashion sensibility.
The show picks up where her read-to-wear collection left off — the phenomenal investigation of 3D printing in wearables.
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Make your own stuff using: 3D Printing
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Best of the Blog 2010 — fashion + textiles & jewelry
There are two big reasons why digital fabrication and mass-customization are on the rise and here to stay:
#1 People want to reclaim making. They want to have a hand in the products that populate their lives.
#2 People want products that are tailored to their individuality. One size does not fit all.
While fashion and adornment may not be the first thing you think of when it comes to a manufacturing revolution, there is no other industry with a longer history of self-making or quite the same need for absolute customization.
This top ten counts down the best examples of what the future holds for the fields of fashion, textiles, and jewelry.
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T-shirts lasercut with patterns for layering.
This is one of those things that seems like such a great idea, I’m surprised I haven’t seen it before. PERF Apparel laser cuts a variety of patterns into t-shirts. When they are worn over another shirt with a bright color, the color shows through the pattern.
CLICK HERE for more fantastic examples of laser cutting.
More examples after the jump!
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Make your own stuff using: Laser Cutting
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Can you grow a mustache as stylish as this?
Winter is almost here, at least if you’re in the Northern hemisphere, so it’s time to wrap up warmly. If you find all that layering a little depressing, Nathan Pryor’s HaHaBird neckwarmers will surely put a grin on your face. Even if you can grow a trendy mo of your own, you may want prefer a slightly lower level of commitment and opt for a comical growth of leather or felt.
How did you come across Ponoko? I came across Ponoko in Wired magazine a year or two ago. My first thought was “that’s really cool,” but I didn’t have any projects in mind. When I eventually realized a use for it, I had the hardest time tracking down what I’d seen and spent hours searching for Nokoko, Konopo, Poko, and every other variation of the name I could think of.
How did you used to make products before Ponoko? In the case of the mustaches,
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Posted in Fashion + Textiles, Interviews, Thoughts + Opinions, Laser Cutting, Maker Stories, Yana Skaler by yana | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: Laser Cutting
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Pixellate your person
Bosnian designer Amila Hrustic has come up with a stunning way to complement the smooth and sensual curves of the human form.
Sewn onto dresses in her Plato’s Collection are an array of faceted paper surfaces. In a retro-futuristic bloom that would surely have Buckminster Fuller’s nod of approval, these designs introduce geometric contours with an alluring and elegant style.
Fashion visions for the future can certainly take your breath away, and the inclusion of digital manufacturing technologies helps to push the boundaries even further.
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Posted in Digital Fabrication, Fashion + Textiles, Functional Art + Objects, Guy Blashki by Guy Blashki | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, CNC Routing
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Iris van Herpen exceeds expectations.
A couple of years ago I started a journal on my absolute favorite artists and designers. Not just simply ones I really really liked, but ones that were beyond subjective preference — artists and designers that were truly phenomenal.
The goal of this journal was to figure out what it was — the quiddity, the essence — that made their work so breathtaking, so amazing, so supreme. And after contemplating factors from sprezzatura to self-discovery, I finally figured it out.
Exceeding expectations. Now I mean this in a grand sense; not just an A+ versus an A. I mean exceeding your expectations of what something can be, a particular potential within the world that you are seeing fully actualized for the first time.
And that’s how I feel about Iris van Herpen.
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Make your own stuff using: 3D Printing, Laser Cutting
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the Spring/Summer 2011 collection from Charlotte Linton
Traditional fabric printing involves a limited color palette. Whether it’s block printing or screen printing, more colors always means more cost.
One of the greatest thing about digital textile printing is that designs can have unlimited colors at the same cost as a single color. Yet designers using digital fabric printing still cling to flat designs with a few, flat colors.
Let Charlotte Linton show you how it’s done.
above: Mineralogy
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Posted in Digital Fabric Printing, Fashion + Textiles, Kristen Turner by Kristen Turner | Comments are off for this post
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