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.
SMASH. mint design
I especially like the filter mask moulded into a monkey’s nose/mouth.
Interesting how white almost everything in the exhibition is. This is a common property given to newness: as if new forms/ideas await colouring in…. still clean and untainted by life beyond the Design Lab (aren’t all Lab’s white?). But I’m sure Mark Wigley would have some more acute observations to add to that. If any of the crew want to read something from his ‘White Walls: Designer Dresses’, I have a bit available here and here.
girish
Amazing gorgeous stuff. The TOKYO FIBRE work is really beautiful. I especially like that very covetable backpack. These non-woven flexible fabrics are intriguing – it seems a lot of this technology has actually been around for some time but is being applied in new ways. This is similar I suppose to the bio-art movement but maybe in reverse? I agree about the whiteness. It is very ethereal but in some cases it is very hard to make out the forms from the photos.
p.s. The iPatch remains classic blue for now.
Apr 07, 2009 @ 1:32 am
girish
I meant to mention the Martha Stewart “Fashioning Felt” exhibition piece in the above comment. I’m really attracted to felt for some reason. Partly because it’s so simple and so ancient but also because felted fabrics have been used in industry for many years (including the dust mask and those thick mats used in sound insulation). These “industrial” felts contain a really interesting aesthetic quality.
Apr 07, 2009 @ 2:51 am