Jun 23
If your freestanding electric fan blows accumulated dust around the room every time it’s turned on, a fashionable fabric dust cover will keep the fan clean while adding some designer dash to your room decor.
Jun 20
Jun 19
Pulling the strings of New York artist Olek will only give you more questions to answer. Her crochet-based installments and art are riddles wrapped in a mystery inside….well, yarn. She tries to untie the knots of society and unwind her own self-expression as an artist by weaving her journey into her work.
Jun 18
Is there anything better in the world then a nice big hug when you are
feeling stressed or sad? Probably not, and that’s exactly why inventors
decided to create a garment that simulates the sensation of a hug for
parents that need to offer their children reassurance from afar.
Jun 18
These stockings are designed to make your legs look hairy so you can creep out all those creeps out there.
Jun 17
Think fashion has gone to the dogs? You are correct sir! This outrageous outfit on sale at the Laforet Harajuku Department Store and Museum in Tokyo, Japan, adds a diagonal row of upside-down puppies to a snazzy black pinstriped suit.
Jun 15
Customized scarves are nothing new, but artists Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet still came up with something truly novel and different in this category.
They worked with Sebastian Mealla from the Music Technology Group in Barcelona to create something called Neuro Knitting.
The process is described as follows:
Neuro Knitting represents a novel way of personal, generative design and fabrication. An approach that brings together affective computing and digital crafts. And thus, it offers new applications and creative thinking to both areas. It’s basically a process where you, the person who wants a new one-of-a-kind scarf, wears an EEG cap and listens to 10 minutes of classical music. Your brain activity is recorded and transferred into a knitting pattern using a program called Knitic.
A custom scarf is then knitted from this pattern, and voila! You’ve got a truly unique brainwave-patterned scarf that’s yours, in every sense of the word.
But note that if you have something against Bach’s Goldberg Variations, you’ll probably have one chaotic-looking scarf.
Jun 12
If knitting is the domain of needles, yarn and sewing machines, then a digital fabrication project based in Tokyo wants to add ‘data glitches’ to that list. Fusing fashion with technology, Glitch Knit uses a method called “Glitch Embroidery’ to “sew” custom fabrics and knitted items like scarves with a slight difference.
Instead of neat rows of carefully knitted stitches, Glitch Embroidery is based on the idea of using intentionally damaged data to cause errant needle movements. What results are fabrics that visually and physically represent otherwise intangible glitches in data. Created by fashion designer Nukeme , Glitch Knit is inspired by a growing number of experiments that are fusing traditional crafts with computing and was one of the Jury Selections at the 2013 Media Arts festival in Tokyo.
A Brother KH-930e knitting machine is “hacked” using an Arduino Duo so that it can be connected to a computer. This process enables the knitting machine to turn any digital image or pattern, even those created in graphics programs like Photoshop or Paint, into a knitted fabric.
Nukeme then uses a hex editor to open up the raw binary data of an image and purposely damages the image by rewriting the data.
The image is then opened in a program which allows the user to resize their glitched image and send it to the knitting machine to be turned into fabric.
The bottom half of the image below is glitch, the top half is the original image.
The glitch fabric being knitted.
Glitch Knit is an interesting way of physically exploring and representing errors in data that we usually only encounter as malfunctioning software or frustrating experiences. By purposely centering the design of the fabric around glitches, Glitch Knit playfully subverts the way we respond to errors that occur in the data-saturated world around us.
Glitch Knit is a project supported by Shibuya Fab Lab and was created by Nukeme, Tomofumi Yoshida and uses software made with Processing by So Kanno,
Jun 11
Bow ties (along with pocket protectors) are the typical fashion trappings of the classic nerd, even more so if the tie is a clip-on. Now the clever designers at Monocircus have turned that tired stereotype on its head by creating what just might be the first cool clip-on tie… and it’s a bow tie to boot!
Jun 10
These small, strong and colorful Umbrella Hangers from Japan’s Mabuworld have no moving parts but perform more than one function: they hang your umbrella virtually anywhere while marking it as your property.
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