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Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design by Anthony Dunne

2011-12-21T04:41:00.000-08:00

Boook description by Amazon:
As our everyday social and cultural experiences are increasingly mediated by electronic products--from "intelligent" toasters to iPods--it is the design of these products that shapes our experience of the "electrosphere" in which we live. Designers of electronic products, writes Anthony Dunne in Hertzian Tales, must begin to think more broadly about the aesthetic role of electronic products in everyday life. Industrial design has the potential to enrich our daily lives--to improve the quality of our relationship to the artificial environment of technology, and even, argues Dunne, to be subverted for socially beneficial ends.The cultural speculations and conceptual design proposals in Hertzian Tales are not utopian visions or blueprints; instead, they embody a critique of present-day practices, "mixing criticism with optimism." Six essays explore design approaches for developing the aesthetic potential of electronic products outside a commercial context--considering such topics as the post-optimal object and the aesthetics of user-unfriendliness--and five proposals offer commentary in the form of objects, videos, and images. These include "Electroclimates," animations on an LCD screen that register changes in radio frequency; "When Objects Dream...," consumer products that "dream" in electromagnetic waves; "Thief of Affection," which steals radio signals from cardiac pacemakers; "Tuneable Cities," which uses the car as it drives through overlapping radio environments as an interface of hertzian and physical space; and the "Faraday Chair: Negative Radio," enclosed in a transparent but radio-opaque shield.

Jumping Jumper by "The Intern" & Mieux for aniomagic

2011-09-22T04:53:00.000-07:00

"The Intern", and Mieux collaborate on a motion sensitive skirt that sparkles when the wearer makes waves. Contains Sparkle, lightboards, acceleromenter, and a whole lot of conductive thread...demonstrates a single Sparkle powering 40 lightboards! Uses 2 AAA batteries.

Soft Circuits: a workshop facilitator's guide by Emily Lovett

2011-09-08T09:37:00.000-07:00

Emily Lovett is a graduate student in the High-Low Tech research group at the MIT Media Lab, interested in research at the intersection of education and craft/technology. And she have write her first book, "Getting Hands-On with Soft Circuits" is a workshop guide for educators interested in sharing the expressive and computationally engaging field of e-textiles with their middle and high school students.

Free download here: http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=1283

Marc Jacobs QR code dress by THORUNN ARNADOTTIR

2011-07-29T04:39:00.000-07:00

QR U? - dress
The digital media has made self promotion easier and the route to fame has become more accessible. We have become our own paparazzi's and media.

The "super-self-promotional-dress" is designed for a pop star, Kali in Steed Lord. (www.steedlord.com)

The dress allows her to use the promotional ability of the internet to the maximum, while appearing in public offline. The dress is composed of different QR codes that link to different promotional material online that can be viewed instantly on her fans mobile phones.
Supported by Swarovski.

Photography: Eugenia Walberg
2011

Spanish Craft Revolution

2011-06-07T10:10:00.000-07:00

El objetivo de SpanishCraftRevolution es dar a conocer el handmade español dentro y fuera de España.Los miembros son artistas que viven y crean en España o Españoles que viven en el extranjero, con un alto nivel de creatividad.

El próximo viernes, 10 de Junio 2011, tendrá lugar la Etsy Craft Party, un evento de carácter mundial al cual se puede sumar quien quiera, simplemente tienes que informarte de dónde se realiza la Craft Party más cercana o crear una tú mismo!

Más info en:
http://www.etsy.com/teams/8703/spanishcraftrevolution
http://spanishcraftrevolution.blogspot.com/2011/06/etsy-craft-party-in-spain.html

Contacto:
spanishcraftrevolution@gmail.com

Schemer by Aniomagic

2011-05-23T08:28:00.000-07:00

Schemer is a small button to make things twinkle, shake, and play music.

You program it directly from a web browser by holding it in front of a computer screen.
No wires, and no software to install. It's really easy.

- Example programs

- Graphical programming

- Writing programs
- All Schemer procedures
- Hardware
- Example projects

Go to http://www.aniomagic.com/schemer/?hl=en#

And visualize this:

Inauguración Cafe-Costura Madrid

2011-05-19T01:59:00.000-07:00

Hoy se inaugura este nuevo espacio en Madrid que promete ser punto de encuentro de la comunidad DIY en la capital. Su fórmula, 1 hora de clases de costura a máquina + 1 café x 7 euros!!!

Allí estaremos hoy para celebrar!

Sparkfun Lilypad Workshop at Maker Faire

2011-05-19T01:10:00.000-07:00

This weekend at the Maker Faire, Sparkfun will be holding an introductory Lilypad and etextile workshop. The hands-on workshop will give you the technical skills and know-how to add LED lights to your crafty projects. The class uses the Lilypad electronic components.
The course will cost you $30 and all the proceeds from all of SparkFun’s workshops this year are going to be donated to The San Francisco Food Bank as well as Internet Archive/Way Back Machine.

Moon Berlin collection

2011-05-17T03:08:00.000-07:00

By The New York Times:

The Moon Berlin garments feature tiny LED, or light-emitting diode, bulbs. They are attached to an electrical circuit imprinted on a soft, rubbery material that can be added directly to fabric or placed between a garment’s main material and its lining. While the arrangement may sound cumbersome, the circuits are so flexible they can even be attached to silk, chiffon and satin, the engineers say.

One thin circuit wire leads to a credit card-size battery that is three millimeters, or one-tenth of an inch, thick, rechargeable and low-energy. It is concealed in a fabric pocket somewhere on the garment and can power the lights for 8 to 10 hours.
Some lights even will sparkle, responding to a sensor that detects the wearer’s movement, and others dim or brighten according to levels of light. Oh, and the garments are washable.
The initial 23-piece collection, which can be ordered from Moon Berlin online, ranges from a little black dress with lights twinkling through a cowl draped at the back to a sleeveless white silk shirt featuring the lighting circuit as though it were a graphic print. Prices are €2,000, or $2,750, for a gown; €1,000 for a silk shirt.

More info in:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/fashion/03iht-rmoon03.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&src=tptw&adxnnlx=1300768149-4nKkPMNeWgnfzNcIJdgc2w

http://www.moon-berlin.com/

Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Ventures

2011-05-17T02:48:00.000-07:00

During the month of May 2011, -empyre soft-skinned space will be featuring a discussion of wearable technologies, means through which technology augments or enables the body in interacting with the surrounding environment. The integration of wearables that augment the body with technological capabilities permeate our diverse worlds from entertainment to the military. During a recent episode of American Idol, singer Katy Perry wore a white body suit that flickered with pink LED lights to the beat of a song with Kanye West. Just a few days ago, during a US military secret mission to hunt down Osama Bin Laden, elite Navy Blue Seals wore special goggles that allowed them to see in low light conditions and helmets installed with video cams that beamed the capture and killing of Bin Laden in real time for the President of the United States and other onlookers in the White House Situation Room.

In the realms of art and technology, wearable technologies have proliferated while linking the areas of art, design, science and engineering. In the art and technology DIY world, the arduino and lilypad platforms and open source software have made these technologies more accessible. Embedded accelerometers within ubiquitous communication and computer hardware such as the i-phone, i-pod touch, and the i-pad among others have simplified the relationship between code and interactivity.

Some of the questions to be considered over the course of the next four weeks will include: How do wearable technologies enhance the body’s capabilities to interface with the environment as transmitters, receivers, enablers of data-in-the-world. How do the technologies of material protect the body upon harmful impact (fire, heat, microbes) or enhance more pleasurable sensation? What is the role of risk in relation to the failure of design or delivery? What are the relationships between the practical aspects of use and the aesthetic concerns of design? How do we understand wearable technology in relation to the excesses of commodified culture?

Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Ventures with Janis Jefferies (UK), Valérie Lamontagne (CA), Ashley Ferro-Murray (US), Sabine Seymour (US), Susan Elizabeth Ryan (US), Danielle Wilde (AU/FR), Sarah Kettley (UK), Lucy Dunne (US) :: Moderated by Renate Ferro (US) and Tim Murray (US).

More info:
http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/

Resistulator

2011-05-10T03:43:00.000-07:00

A resistor calculator. It calculates the value of a resistor from the sequence of colored bands painted on the resistor. It also displays the corresponding color sequence when a resistor value is entered.

Instructions:
To enter a color sequence, click each colored band to cycle through the possible colors. You can look up a color sequence by entering the numeric resistor value from the dropdown menus when the widget is in expanded form. The widget is resized by clicking anywhere on the green background.

e-textile and wereable computing show at Market Faire Bay Area

2011-05-10T03:33:00.000-07:00

On Saturday 21 May 2011 at 3:00PM fashion designers and engineers, young and old, beginners and the skilled will join forces to present a Maker Fair original: An eTextile, smart clothing and wearable computing Showcase!

date: Saturday 21 May 2011
time: 3:00PM
location: Arc Attack Stage, Fiesta Hall, Maker Faire, San Mateo
producer: Lynne Bruning

DESIGNERS

Andy – Symphonic Ballet
Eric – HeartSpark
Grace – TBA
Jenny – LED Beaded Bangles
Josh – Map Bag
Joyce – undisclosed as of yet…..
Liz – TBA
Randy – The Clap Off BraSensoree – InflataCorset
Shannon – Candle Light Dress
Syuzi Pakhchyan – Quorra Costume

Mistress of Ceremony: TBA

Designs will be on display at the eTextile Lounge: Booth #300 in the East Lobby of the Fiesta Hall. Designers will be available for interviews immediately after the Showcase in the eTextile Lounge Booth #300 in the East Lobby of the Fiesta Hall.

Meredith will be displaying her projects at Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 & 22. There you can meet her, and her razor sharp wit!

II Jornadas sobre blogs de moda en el Museo del Traje

2011-05-04T05:13:00.000-07:00

Segundo foro en torno a la comunicación de moda on line y a las redes sociales. Estas jornadas son un espacio de encuentro donde los participantes pueden actualizar y compartir experiencias vinculadas al mundo de las tendencias en la “blogosfera”.
Participación gratuita previa inscripción entre el 3 y 24 de mayo. El formulario de inscripción estará disponible en la web del Museo a partir del día 3 de mayo. La selección de los participantes se realizará a base a su interés y vinculación con la temática del curso.

Dirección: María Giraldo Bombín y Patricia González Aldea
Duración: 10 horas
Fechas: 10 y 11 de junio
Inscripciones e información:
Teléfono: 91 5504708 (de lunes a viernes,
de 10.00 a 14.00 horas)
Correo electrónico: cursos.mt@mcu.es

Agradecimientos: Arturo Elena
Patrocinan: BuyVIP, TRUCCO, L’Oréal

The eTextile Lounge : a global hackerspace by Lynne Bruning

2011-04-27T07:39:00.000-07:00

Bio for body pixel:

Lynne Bruning is an award winning wearable artist, eTextile innovator and, as she likes to title herself, ‘a textile enchantress, lover of black sand beaches, tangerine bikinis and fast connections.’ She holds an Bachelor of Arts in neurophysiology and Masters in architecture. Her artworks have been published in numerous fashion magazines, web zines and all over the blogosphere. She lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Lynne is pretty active member and proponent of DIY scene in eTextiles and wearable tech fields.

Last 22 march of 2011 she created "The eTextile Loungue" a meeting point via ustream for fashion wereable and computing innovators, trend setters and wide-eyed novies, like she said.. A meet between colleagues to show their creations, blogs, ideas and dreams...

See more about this fantastic loungue in:
http://www.lbruning.com/etextiles/global-etextile-hackerspace-tuesday-nights-on-ustream/

And you will can download a pdf of the week whit all the information such a webs, blogs, artists and local meeting points.

Thanks Lynne for this great idea and for make this space possible ;)

Photo by Lynne Bruning

Time Traveling the Techno-Handmade Revolution by Sally Fort

2011-04-27T07:04:00.000-07:00

Sally Fort Craft & Design Curator

Lly Sally Fort is a craft & design curator, cultural participation and learning consultant, and textiles designer-maker. In 2005 Sally received funding to research the DIY / counter-culture craft scene in the US and UK. This led to the 2009 project UK DIY, including the UK’s first exhibition of counter-culture crafts, accompanied by events and projects across the North West. With a special interest in relationships between craft and web 2.0, Sally is currently developing a crowd-sourced exhibition marrying code and textiles.
When she’s not doing that, Sally is usually helping galleries, museums, universities and schools work more effectively with their communities through participatory arts and cultural activity.

You can find her at www.sallyfort.com or @sallyent on twitter

Is one of the speakers in this years “Post Craft” session at the FutureEveything conference.

Read the article in:
http://futureeverything.org/articles/time-traveling-the-techno-handmade-revolution-by-sally-fort/

FashionCampLA: The First Fashion + Technology UNConference In LA

2011-04-24T06:04:00.000-07:00

FashionCamp LA is free and volunteer-run, in which anyone can present and everyone is encouraged to share their knowledge about fashion. Volunteering with Fashion Camp is a great way to meet new people working in fashion, learn about fashion technology, fashion eCommerce, and fashion 2.0. If you’re in the Los Angeles area on May 15th and May 16th, 2010 and are interested in how technology in fashion (blogging, social media, social networking, podcasting, videos, mobile content, etc) works, then please join and help out.

Volunteers can help out in various ways, including (but not limited to):

*Planning Fashion Camp LA.
*Presenting at Fashion Camp LA. Please send a blurb of what you want to speak on.
*Setting up/Taking down of the event.

if you’re interested in volunteering:
LA@fashioncamp.org

More info in:
http://www.la.fashioncamp.org/

Metamorfosi / Metamorphosis by Elisabetta Cianfanelli & Stoffel Kuenen

2011-04-24T05:47:00.000-07:00

The nature of the consumer goods industry is changing: the way it interacts with users, the way it operates and manufactures and the products it makes. A framework is sketched for collaboration between industry and universities, commerce and research, where value of the past gives form to the future with the tools and materials that current technologies provide. This book focusses on the Italian fashion system as an example of a sector wrought with tradition, saper fare and high quality that forms a fertile ground for a human-centered application of the latest technologies in all aspects of the production chain, ranging from strategic and marketing aspects, to processes and tools of production, from materials used and sustainable strategies to the skills of the designer. The user forms the center of the fashion product. Hence fashion products are presented, in which a subtle application of state-of-the-art technologies extend functional, expressive and communicative properties, resulting in metamorphic fashion.

Scientifically responsible: Elisabetta Cianfanelli
Scientific coordinator: Stoffel Kuenen
Research team: Roberta Baccolini, Gabriele Goretti, Ambra Trotto
Graphic design: Giulia Mari, Veronica Cornacchini, Ilaria Cornacchini, Ilaria Ruffino -
Italian revision: Patrizia Salis
Italian and English text

© Polistampa 2010, cm 16,5x23,5, pp. 200, ill. col., cart., € 32,00
ISBN: 978-88-596-0787-8

Functional Aesthetics Visions in Fashionable Technology by Sabine Seymour

2011-04-14T08:20:00.000-07:00

Functional Aesthetics, the sequel to Seymour’s highly acclaimed book Fashionable Technology (Springer 2008), explores state-of-the-art artistic and design examples with a focus on their aesthetic and functional aspects. Chapters such as Context as Prerequisite, Body Sculpture, or Transparent Sustainability provide in-depth studies of visionary projects between the poles of fashion, design, technology, and sciences, which could stimulate new developments in the blossoming field of Fashionable Technology. The book also includes relevant information on DIY resources, publications, inspirations, and much more.

Graphic Design: Mahir Mustafa Yavuz
Research Assistance: Ricardo O'Nascimento
Copyediting & Proof Reading:
Peter Blakeney & Christine Schöffler

ISBN 978-3-7091-0311-3

www.softcircuitsaturdays.com

2011-04-14T05:56:00.000-07:00

Hi, I’m Angela and I’m a maker.

Interested in digital arts, wearable and physical computing, crafts and how all these things can combine. Angela decided to start compiling her favorite links/research and document some experiments and prototypes to share every weekend here at Soft Circuit Saturdays.
She first discovered e-textiles, craft technology, and wearable computing during her time at Bennington College, while exploring physical computing. In her senior year she spent 2 months doing an independent Field Work Term researching, collecting samples, and trying out soft circuit techniques. This research led to a project called REACTIVEfashion, a collaboration with Rebecca Grabman that demonstrated her experiments in the form of a playful (and electrified) costume showcase.
Right now she continuing her explorations in the field and constantly trying new things. Angela presents a lot of prototypes in person at a monthly gathering called NH Media Makers and she working on organizing a DIY/Maker crafting group. If you live in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, or Southern Maine and work with these forms or are interested in collaborating she would love to hear from you.

More info in:
Angela@SoftCircuitSaturdays.com

Interactive Soft Circuits and eTextiles Workshop with Arduino Lilypad in Berkeley

2011-04-13T14:59:00.000-07:00

Interactive Soft Circuits and eTextiles Workshop with Arduino Lilypad in Berkeley, California

Saturday June 26 and Sunday June 27, 2010

"In this hands-on weekend workshop we will cut, sew, weave, knit, felt and layer specialized electrotextiles, conductive threads and conventional electronics to create interactive soft circuits for wearables, musical instruments, jewelry and other responsive systems. We will make e-textile pressure, stretch and position sensors connect them to the Lilypad wearable computing platform and use led's and small speakers for output. We will draw inspiration from my large collection of materials, devices and projects reviewing best practices in commercial, academic and DIY eTextile work."

http://www.adrianfreed.com/content/interactive-soft-circuits-and-etextiles-workshop-arduino-lilypad-berkeley-california

The Climate dress by Diffus

2011-04-13T08:37:00.000-07:00

The Climate Dress is made of conductive embroidery, over hundred of tiny LED lights inserted into the embroidey, a CO2 sensor and an Arduino Lilypad microprocessor. The LEDs visualize the level of CO2 in the nearby surroundings and are powered trough the embroidery!
For The Climate Dress we used soft conductive thread that has a similar consistence to the kind of thread used for traditional and industrial embroidery production. This way it is possible to make embroidery that become more than an esthetical element in clothing and interior textiles.

The embroidery becomes functional conveying electricity and computer information and thereby give "power to the dress". The dress senses the CO2 concentration in the air, then accordingly creates diverse light patterns varying from slow, regular light pulsations to short and hectic. The technology, which integrates ”soft circuits” into the production of embroidery, is an innovative process. It is the result of a fruitful collaboration between Copenhagen based design studio diffus, Swiss embroidery company Forster-Rohner, the Danish research-based limited company Alexandra Institute and finally the Danish School of Design.

Credit:
Concept an production: Diffus Design (Hanne Louise Johannesen and Michel Guglielmi).
Fashion Design: Tine Jensen
Technique: Alexandra Institute and innovation network Infinit.
(Rikke Koch, innovation consultant / Jerker Hammarberg, R&D Engineer / Jesper Nielsen, R&D Engineer).
Embroidery: Forstner Rohner AG.
(Jan Zimmerman)
Sewing: Karin Eggert Hansen and Marija Andonovska
With the participation of the Danish Design School:
Students: Anakarin Lundgren, Carolin Gresbach, Liza Frederika Åslund, Maya Fabrin Born, Nancy Kaiser, Natascha Heller, Sarah März.

Hais stylist: Morten Kongsbak (Agence Scoop Models)
Model: Anne Sophie Fioritto Thompsen (Elite Models)
Photography: Anni Lauesen

More info in:
http://www.diffus.dk/pollutiondress/intro.htm

Future Textiles competition

2011-04-13T08:22:00.000-07:00

Show us your ideas and win 50,000 DKK (EUR 6,500) and a chance to meet the experts!
Knowledge Centre for Smart Textiles invites textile, fashion design and engineering students to participate in the international Prize Competition Future Textiles. Students compete with fellow students to present the best idea within smart textiles.
If you are selected as a finalist, we will also invite you to take part in Future Textiles' Expert Summit in Herning, Denmark from 11th to 13th May.
The winner takes home a cash prize of 50,000 DKK (EUR 6,500).

Future Textiles Prize Competition

The Prize Competition in connection with Future Textiles is for textile, fashion, design and engineering students and is part of a three-week programme, which consists of an Expert Summit, the exhibition "pretty Smart Textiles" and much more. Future Textiles takes place in Herning, Denmark from 2nd to 19th May 2011, and is hosted by Knowledge Centre for Smart Textiles at TEKO Design + Business VIA University College.
Click the picture below for presentation video.

More info in:
http://www.futuretextiles.dk/competition

Plug and Wear

2011-04-12T08:14:00.000-07:00

DIY materials for smart fabrics
http://www.plugandwear.com/

Talk2myShirt

2011-04-12T08:11:00.000-07:00

The home base of Wearable Electronics:

The Culture
The Products
The Technologies
The Future

There are many sites about Wearable Electronics. So, why another one?

http://www.talk2myshirt.com/

Sparkle* TuTu by Lynne Bruning

2011-04-12T08:00:00.000-07:00

Instructable in:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Sparkle-TuTu/

Designer \|	Lynne Bruning
Technology \|	Aniomagic
Photographer \|	Dan Jahn
MUA \|	Julie
Model \|	Sharla