Smart Fabrics 2012 Conference Highlights

Posted on May 31, 2012 in Event | No Comments

A few weeks ago I attended the annual Smart Fabrics Conference 2012 held in Miami, Florida. This industry-focused event brings together owners, players, entrepreneurs and developers from various textile-based R&D fields interested in intelligent embedded technological applications. The highlights of Smart Fabrics centered around two principal areas: academic research and industrial applications. Guided by an ...

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Open Source + Craft Conference Deadlines

Posted on May 7, 2012 in Event | No Comments

Two exciting calls for upcoming conference events on craft, fashion and technology! Open Source Hardware Association in partnership with Eyebeam Art + Technology Centre are organizing the Open Hardware Summit 2012 to take place at Eyebeam in New York City September 27, 2012. Submission for talks, posters, and demos on the topics of: Digital fabrication; Soft ...

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The Car Liberation Front

Posted on May 1, 2012 in Sustainable | No Comments

Nothing is more démodé than the car. Automobiles are ruining our economies with rampant gas-guzzling, our environment with excess pollution, and the safety of our streets and cities with expanding car lanes and speed. In Orson Welles’ 1942 film “The Magnificent Ambersons,” which takes place in the upper-class setting of Indianapolis,  the wealthy and ambitious ...

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Digital Textile Fashion Trend

Posted on Apr 30, 2012 in Fashion-tech | No Comments

Digital textile printing has taken fashion by a storm. The spring runways were pulsating with custom-designed Technicolor and graphic photographs, and designs and printed specifically for the cut of a garment. I see this trend as growing in a near future where print and textile patterns will be designed in tandem, both economizing material and ...

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FashionWare CES 2012 Roundup

Posted on Feb 1, 2012 in Event | No Comments

An interview by the wearables start-up research group SF FASHION+TECH with Kristin Neidlinger from SENSOREE  about the recent FashionWare Show at CES 2012 in which she participated, outlines the emergent trends in wearables from functionality to aesthetics. Highlighted are Alasdair Leighton’s “Freescape Cycle Jacket”, winner of a Sony Ericsson competition run through the LiveView Design Project ...

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