Soo I decided to step things up, and make a youtube channel!
*que tumbleweed*
Um okay, I was expecting applause, but whatever.
Um okay, I was expecting applause, but whatever.
One of the tasks on my design list is to post about two pieces of great design that I've found (could be anything from a photograph, to a piece of quirky ephemera, to any sort of three dimensional art thingymabob).
Anywhoo, I came across this lovely little card shop in South Kensington when I went to London last week and I purchased this thing called a lenticular postcard. It was made using a specialised lenticular lens to create the illusion of depth within an image which appears to move when viewed at different angles. It's still a developing technology but it's come a long way since the 1940s when it was first created. It's absolutely amaze-balls - if it's possible I'd love to have some lenticular fabric made up for one of my future fashion projects ^.^
I looked for idea-a-day.com (one of the other tasks on the list) but the site's currently down. From what I can tell it's about little ideas that could improve everyday life, so killing two birds with one stone here I'd love it if it were possible to develop a fabric holding a moving image - without the use of video projectors or smoke & mirrors - an actual fabric hybrid. Or in the least, maybe a fabric that changes colour depending on your mood. I know heat sensitive fabrics were a trend in the nineties and that didn't really catch on but I know of a dress designed by Lucy McRae (whose like my idol, no, seriously) called the Bubelle dress which uses biometric sensors that pick up on a persons emotions and projects them as colours along the outer-layer of the dress. Here's a link to a (super cheesy but nonetheless informative) video about her newest creations. I don't know if ideas like these would improve any body's quality of life per say, which I guess is idea-a-day.com underlying ethos, but I think it would open a gateway to greater developments in the future which is something I find really exciting.
(p.s. I apologise if the amount of times I say the word "like" in this video bothers anybody, I'm just like really like excited and stuff :P like.)
I looked for idea-a-day.com (one of the other tasks on the list) but the site's currently down. From what I can tell it's about little ideas that could improve everyday life, so killing two birds with one stone here I'd love it if it were possible to develop a fabric holding a moving image - without the use of video projectors or smoke & mirrors - an actual fabric hybrid. Or in the least, maybe a fabric that changes colour depending on your mood. I know heat sensitive fabrics were a trend in the nineties and that didn't really catch on but I know of a dress designed by Lucy McRae (whose like my idol, no, seriously) called the Bubelle dress which uses biometric sensors that pick up on a persons emotions and projects them as colours along the outer-layer of the dress. Here's a link to a (super cheesy but nonetheless informative) video about her newest creations. I don't know if ideas like these would improve any body's quality of life per say, which I guess is idea-a-day.com underlying ethos, but I think it would open a gateway to greater developments in the future which is something I find really exciting.
(p.s. I apologise if the amount of times I say the word "like" in this video bothers anybody, I'm just like really like excited and stuff :P like.)
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