White, Fibre Fabulosity: Tokyo fibre 09 Senseware
Like a white swan landing on the reflective lake at just the right moment, this exhibition is coming. Following my earlier post, Extreme Textiles, I just stumbled across this post on the Design Boom blog The site for this delicious looking exhibition is here: Tokyo fibre 09 Senseware It's pure magic. check it out. I especially like the filter mask moulded →
Engineered textiles
In terms of structures/construction and new materials, I suspect a good case could be made that the area of engineered textiles will be significant leader of future possibilities, largely because of their potential for integrating so many capacities into the one material. An exhibition in 2005 at the Cooper Hewitt museum, EXTREME TEXTILES, explored some of the potential via some →
Rhinoplasty.
The first line of the algorithm streamed through his brain and he felt a burning sensation in his sinuses as the pattern formed itself in his mind’s eye. The job wasn’t going to pay, and it wasn’t particularly challenging in itself, but he felt it was a worthwhile thing to be helping these refugees. They were from London this lot. →