Manipulation team

Check this team out, absolutely love their work and their tag line ...

"If you can dream it, You can do it"

https://www.instagram.com/manipulationteam/

Björk: The Gate

For the first release from her forthcoming new album, co-produced by Arca, Björk has teamed up with a super-troupe of contributors to create a hallucinogenic new video. Director Andrew Thomas Huang lends his tech-savvy hand to envision a kaleidoscopic world inhabited by the singer-songwriter, who is clad in an iridescent otherworldly garment designed by Gucci’s Alessandro Michele.

https://www.nowness.com/story/bjork-the-gate-alessandro-michele-andrew-thomas-huang-james-merry

Abstract

Abstract_ is a brand which creates customized fashion. Customers are involved in the design process by generating patterns from their own personal stories. 

The web design tool analyzes what the customer writes and how it is written and transforms this data into a visual representation of the abstract. 

We will transform the customer’s personal pattern into a textile and a unique piece of garment.

Interaction: Bjørn Karmann. Fashion: Julie Eriksen Textile: Kristine Boesen

Hussein Chalayan’s Transformer Dresses

Hussein Chalayan’s Transformer dresses from his Spring/Summer 2007 Collection, was amazing marriage between Fashion and Technology. It you haven't come across it before check it out its clever stuff...

Philips Design Probes

Philips Design Probes is a dedicated ‘far-future’ research initiative to track trends and developments that may ultimately evolve into mainstream issues that have a significant impact on business.

The Design Probes program was established to generate insights and explore far-future lifestyle scenarios based on rigorous research in a wide range of areas. Probes projects are intended to understand future socio-cultural and technological shifts with a view to developing nearer-term scenarios. These scenario explorations are often carried out in collaboration with experts and thought leaders in different fields, culminating in a ‘provocation’ designed to spark discussion and debate around new ideas and lifestyle concepts.

Philips Design Probes

Melanie Bowles

Melanie Bowles is a London based textile designer working in the field of digital textile design. Senior Lecturer at Chelsea College of Art and Design and author of Digital Textile Design publisher Laurence King.

Melanie’s work explores new concepts for digital textile design developing systems for emotional durable and sustainable design through bespoke digital print.

A practicing designer and researcher and member of TED Textile Environmental Design, TFRC,Textile Futures Research Center and The Slow Textile Group.

Asta Roseweay & Sheridan Martin Small

Researcher Asta Roseweay and her team’s aimed to design a dress to visualized with the use of wearable technology developments the old-meets-new and how this could possibly influences the future of fashion.

The result is a dress made almost entirely of paper, symbolizing the past and connects with todays wearable technology and communication forms like tweets. ‘The Printing Dress’ visualizes the constant flow of our always-online, continuous stream of messages.

Electricfoxy talks with Asta Roseway at Microsoft Research from Electricfoxy on Vimeo.

Manel Torres

Manel Torres conceives the idea for Spray-on Fabric whilst studying for his MA in Fashion Women's Wear, Royal College of Art, London. Aware of the slow process of constructing garments, Manel investigated novel ways to speed up this process. Manel's foresight and vision led him to think of developing a material that would almost magically fit the body like a second skin and at the same time have the appearance of clothing.

The original concept was to utilise Spray-on Fabric in the fashion industry. However, the technology has the potential to revolutionise and enhance numerous market areas. Fabrican Ltd

Talk2MyShirt

Talk2MyShirt is dedicated to Wearable Electronics in the purest sense: Textile based, Clothing and Fashion Accessories. talk2myShirt is created first of all for consumers. This site gives reviews and background information on products. It also provides an overview of the technologies involved.

Don’t Break My Heart is a wearable, colour-coded distance warning system prototype for cyclists to wear on their back. It incorporates a sewable LilyPad Arduino microcontroller, RGB LED, proximity sensor, conductive thread and fabrics to create an easily Velcro-ed on and off (moveable between garments & bags) and highly visible alert for traffic traveling behind cyclists.

Electric Foxy

Electric Foxy is a blog and resource on fashion that uses technology. It investigates on-body experiences that are beautiful, wearable and connect with software and services resulting in a new aesthetic of form and behavior that become a core part of our expression, our identity, and our individuality.

Ping from Dos Rios on Vimeo.

Vanilla K Jacket

Vanilla "k" from Alexander Reeder on Vimeo.

The Vanilla Series is a line of jackets connecting directly to your iPhone, allowing you dynamic control. Vanilla is modular so you can choose your own set of sensors; or go with the main "a" and "k" series. Vanilla "a" has five subtle indicators near the cuff which can be used in various ways. By default they indicate turns as your biking with the flick of a wrist.

Vanilla "k" is all about what you have to say with an 8 x 8 LED matrix embedded into the back of the jacket. Alexander Reeder