Recycled ground coffee used to make an odor control, fast drying, environmentally friendly, absorbent fabric. Brilliant!
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I found this video on YouTube on DigiFabrics from Shapeways. While I think they're pretty cool and definitely want to touch and manipulate them, I can't really picture how they're used. I mean, how are they applied? Do you know? If so, care to share?
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Leave A CommentWho doesn't love a good contest, right? It motivates, inspires, and promotes a healthy dose of competition. With that in mind, someone sent me an email about a Color Contest being put on by How Design and Print Magazine and I thought I would pass it along to you.
What's it all about? Submit the ...Read More >>
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Leave A CommentPantone introduced Capsure this week. In case you're wondering what it is, it's a small device that reads color on any surface and matches it to a Pantone, for your designing convenience. It seems like a handy dandy little tool for those of us in the textile, fashion, and interior design fields. However, it's not ...Read More >>
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Leave A CommentHi Folks. I was introduced to this amazing video recently and couldn't wait to pass it along. Water soluble fabrics are used to create garments. What a fantastic experiment of chemistry and fashion.
The point? To get us thinking about the materials we use and what happens to them when we've decided we're done.
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Tags: color, Design, Fabric, Fashion, innovation, Material, Sustainable, technology, Textiles
Leave A CommentJust thought I'd share this fantastic use of textiles in the recent contest: Reconstruction 2.0, where Parson's School of Design students deconstructed and reconstructed discarded press samples from Louis Vuitton's Spring/Summer 2010 collection. Their mission to create wearable art. Mission accomplished, don't ya think?
Wanna see more? Check out this slide show on ecouterre.
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