The Next Black: A Film About The Future of Clothing

With the objective of anticipating future washing needs and contributing to making the clothing industry more sustainable, ‘The Next Black’ is a 45-minute documentary that explores the future of clothing, produced by home appliance manufacturer AEG together with production company House of Radon. Some of the most innovative companies express their opinions on clothing and its future whilst answering questions such as: Will the mass consumption of clothing continue to escalate? Or will we return to creating quality and caring about what we wear? Will the future be centered around smart clothing and new technologies? Or will we find innovation within organic and traditional methods?

The progressive people that are answering these questions include Rick Ridgeway, environmentalist, mountaineer and Vice President of Environmental Initiatives at Patagonia one of the most sustainable companies in the fashion industry,Nancy Tilbury, co-founder and director of Studio XO, a company that specializes in the area where fashion meets technology, Matt Hymers, project manager of Team Elite System, one of adidas’ latest inventions (who demonstrates the system of woven sensors in the shirt that send real-time data of the players’ performance), Suzanne Lee, the founder of Biocouture Ltd, which works with materials grown from living organisms and lastly, Sophie Mather, Innovation Director of the Yeh Group which has pioneered a new way to dye clothes using zero water.

Natsai Audrey Chieza

Here's a new approach to pattern-making from Zimbabwe-born London designer Natsai Audrey Chieza one that uses specially cultured herb soil bacteria. Chieza has discovered how some bacteria, when extracted from herbs like sage, bloom into rich, unique colours when they are cultured. 

Applying these to fabrics, a pattern is created that clings to the individual microbes. Chieza is now exploring whether or not it's possible to use bacteria for creating programmable patterns for fashion brands.

Natsai Audrey Chieza

Christa van der Meer

Christa van der Meer is a Dutch fashion designer and graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Experiencing with different mediums she now works on projects to find ways to connect her portrait drawings to her fashion designs. Her graduation collection she portraits the fact that drawing is essential for designing. The drawings form the base of her fashion collections and is an instrument to create a new perspective both visually and emotionally.
Christa van der Meer 

Rick Owens Spring 2014 Womenswear

Dance in definitely in the air as another designer, in this case Rick Owens has used performance to present his Spring 2014 Womenswear.

Rick Owens

 

BOLON

Swedish carpet manufacturer BOLON has announced the launch of its new Silence collection with a video by Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman. Titled ‘The Contradiction of Silence’, the video tastefully combines the rhythms of BOLON’s carpet looms with the coordinated movements of the dancers, creating a poetic metaphor of ‘woven’ dance and ‘dancing’ machines.
http://www.bolon.com

InkShaped

"InkShaped, the brand new magazine aiming to promote and highlight the vibrant and thriving music scene that Manchester is known for"

Check it out and support such a cool magazine!

Also, they have said to ask if anyone is interested in writing/designing for the magazine to email them at inkshaped@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/Inkshaped

We Make Carpets

We Make Carpets is the creative collaboration of visual artist Bob Waardenburg and designers Stijn van der Vleuten and Marcia Nolte.  Their carpets are constructed by hand with ordinary every day materials.

http://www.wemakecarpets.nl

Loes Veenstra

For 50-odd years Loes Veenstra sat in her street in Rotterdam, needles clicking away. In total she has made 556 hand-knitted jumpers but not one has been worn…until now by a flash-mob...




The flash-mob and accompanying book was recognised with a Dutch Design Award in October 2013. The last part of the project will see Veenstra's jumpers finally fulfil their purpose, as they are sold in an auction in Rotterdam in the new year.

Rosemarie Fiore's Firework Paintings

Rosemarie Fiore  (b. 1972, New York, United States) lives and works in Bronx, NY.  She typically produces artwork out of the actions of mechanisms.  She converts popular technology such as lawn mowers, cars, waffle irons, floor polishers, pinball machines, fireworks and amusement park rides into painting machines. How cool is that!

Gemis Luciani

Luciani’s output consists of two-dimensional tapestries, as well as three-dimensional sculptural forms that are meant to explore the possibilities and potential of printed media as a plastic medium. He achieves a variety of visual effects by treating magazines, books, and telephone directories in unconventional ways...

http://www.gemisluciani.com/home.html 

Hanna Werning

Hanna Werning work as an independent designer across disciplines such as communication design, product design, visual arts and illustration, self-initiated and commissioned work. Since 2004, she has been running her own company Spring Street Studio in Stockholm, Sweden. The name comes from her time living in London where she was educated a graphic designer at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.

Hanna has a strong fascination for patterns and colours and has been designing prints, wallpapers, textile, porcelain etc for Boråstapeter, Rörstrand, IKEA, Sagaform, Eastpak, Anna Sui and House of Dagmar. She is also the designer and manufacture of her own product AnimalFlowers wallpaper-posters. 

http://www.byhanna.com/index.html 

http://www.byhanna.com/apparat1.html

Elisa Strozyk

"The world around us is becoming increasingly immaterial. We are now used to write emails instead of letters, to pay online, to download music and touch virtual buttons on touch screens. We live in a society of images, a visual culture full of colours, advertisements, television and the internet. There is not much left to feel. Giving importance to surfaces that are desirable to touch can reconnect us with the material world and enhance the emotional value of an object. 
'Wooden Textiles' convey a new tactile experience. We are used to experience wood as a hard material; we know the feeling of walking across wooden floors, to touch a wooden tabletop or to feel the bark of a tree. But we usually don't experience a wooden surface which can be manipulated by touch." Elisa Strozyk

www.elisastrozyk.de/seite/woodtex/woodentextiles.html

Teo Pirisi

Teo Pirisi, aka Moneyless, is an Italian-born artist, who has made the country his home since his birth in 1980. The artist grew up as a member of the 90’s graffiti scene in Tuscany, which he attributes to the development of his artistic identity. Pirisi further devolped his signature geometric style through his studies at Multimedia and Communication Design at Carrara Fine Art Academy and Isia in Florence, respectively.

By combining his graffiti and fine art backgrounds, the artist has been able to develop a unique style of geometric art. 

http://www.moneyless.it


STRUCTURES by Teo Moneyless Pirisi from Martina Merlini on Vimeo.

Fanette G

French Artist Fanette G using a mix of photography and art installation (no photoshop involved!) to create these optical illusions. Painted on abandoned buildings and later photographed from different angles to trick your eye into thinking those are 3D object floating in the room, uses a modern-art-meets-vintage-interiors approach.

www.fanetteg.com

Aakash Nihalani

Artist Aakash Nihalani makes faux 3D geometric shapes with neon tape from Street Art to Land Art...see more at 

Aakash Nihalani 

Mathieu Lehanneur

Graduated from ENSCI-Les Ateliers (French National School for Industrial Design) in 2001, Mathieu Lehanneur opened that same year his own studio dedicated to industrial design and interior architecture. Very soon has he been developing a real passion for interactions between the body and its environment, living systems and the scientific world.
Studio Mathieu Lehanneur works for clients such as :AirMineral / Biotherm / Cartier / CEA / Centre Pompidou / Christofle / Chungho Nais / EDF / Flood / Harvard University / Hennessy / Issey Miyake / JCDecaux / JWT / La Poste / Lasvit / Le Laboratoire / Nike / Paco Rabanne / Poltrona Frau / Schneider Electric / Sony / Veuve Clicquot / Yohji Yamamoto... 

Mathieu Lehanneur

Maison Martin Margiela w/ H&M - The Silent Manifesto

In November 2012, hundreds of people hit the streets of San Francisco in anticipation of Maison Martin Margiela’s collaboration with H&M stores around the world, some of you may have witnessed hundreds of black-clad fashion soldiers donning white aprons marching through your neighborhood. From Hong Kong to Singapore and Paristo Düsseldorf, eight countries around the globe hosted similar marches in anticipation of the collection’s global launch.
Maison Martin Margiela 

Maison Martin Margiela w/ H&M - The Silent Manifesto from MP CREATIVE on Vimeo.

Hetain Patel

I am a UK-based artist. My work is about being...

Conceptually driven, my practice begins with ideas about identity formation through the use of language and physical movement... 
Hetain Patel

CARMA for B-Bicycle Culture Magazine

Can a bike erase everything that a car has done? Leo Burnett Lisbon decided to find out the answer to this challenging question with its new project CARMA for B-Bicycle Culture Magazine, a quarterly magazine about the passion for cycling. For this project, Rcicla Bicletas built a bicycle out of the scrap of a retired Mercedes hoping that the heavy karma of the car could be rebalanced by riding the same number of kilometres in a greener way: just by cyclin. 

HEARD•NY by Nick Cave & The Ailey School

HEARD•NY is an installation and performance piece which will be presented from Monday 25 March till Sunday 31 March, 2013, as part of a series of events celebrating Grand Central Terminal’s centennial.

With his debut public art project in New York City, artist Nick Cave will transform Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall into a pasture for a grazing herd of 30 fantastical life-size horses. Accompanied by live music, sixty dance students from The AILEY School will don Cave’s celebrated ‘Soundsuits’ and perform specially choreographed ‘crossings’ at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. every day. 

Piles by ÖRNDUVALD

''Piles'' is the latest project of Pétur Örn Eyjólfsson & Søren Oskar Duvald, aka ÖRNDUVALD, which consists of three designs made of 45,546 shinny sequins that represent the vast quantities of soil, water and rubble that have been excavated from the Copenhagen underground.


 


ÖRNDUVALD

Kim Beom

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Botanical Layers is the creative brainchild of Masha Reva and Syndicate. The collection juxtapositions immersion in the rapid pace of contemporary life, gadgets and social networks with a yearning for our natural environment, explored as a metaphorical botanical garden of Photoshop layers and loading bars. Check out their websites for more – Mesha Reva and Syndicate. 

Dash Magazine

DASH Magazine is the London-based illustrated magazine on fashion and fashion art. Published biannually and distributed worldwide, DASH is aimed at opinion formers of all genders with an interest in fashion and art-related fields. It is its strong focus on fashion illustration. DASH Magazine provides seasonal coverage as well as a launch platform for emerging talent from the fields of illustration, photography, the arts and journalism to showcase, and thus gain exposure, for their work.

Patternbank

Patternbank aims to keep you up to speed with the rapidly evolving world of print, pattern and apparel graphics.   

Beata Boucht

Illustrations by Stockholm-based, Beata Boucht.
http://www.beataboucht.com/

Dan Funderburgh

Dan Funderburgh is a Brooklyn-based illustrator, artist, and wallpaper designer whose creations are rooted in the world of decorative arts. Dan was born in Seattle and reared in the Midwest, receiving a BFA from the University of Kansas with a focus in illustration. Dan's personal and gallery work includes letterpress and screen prints, sculptures and installations that play off of historical ornamentation. Revealing an acute appreciation for both the baroque and utilitarian, Dan's work often combines the language of ornament with objects that surround us. 

http://www.danfunderburgh.com/

Yoko Furusho

YOKO FURUSHO is a Japanese artist/illustrator based in New York. She was born in Tokyo and moved to New York to study illustration at the School of Visual Arts. After her graduation, she started to work as a professional illustrator/artist. She likes to draw details, textures and patterns with ink and acrylics. Her world is full of imaginary monsters, weird animals, and funny landscape. Now she is working as an illustrator for various magazines and newspapers. 

http://yokofurusho.com/

Prada's parallel universes

Prada parallel universes is an exercise that grows out of the drive to experiment with, and to match, new communications media and prada’s semiotics; to be consistent with the present without nostalgia.

This dreamlike yet virtual story was entrusted to the Armenian born illustrator Vahram Muratyan. Through his adopted city of Paris, Vahram recently came into the limelight for his newly published book paris vs new york, a work of art which compares the two great cities with graphic signs exploring their different similarities.

Parallel Universes

Carnovsky, aka the artist/designer' duo Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla, are famous for their RGB love and exploration of the ''surface’s deepness''.  By overlapping three different images, each one in a primary color – in RED, GREEN and BLUE, the blend of lines, shapes and colors is unexpectedly beautiful and surrealistic. The final result of this colorful mix resembles an experience that is so alive that it is akin to watching a 3D picture with special 3D glasses, where reality blends with fantasy. They recently decided to translate their RGB principles from interior to fashion producing a limited edition of silk scarves, which are digitally printed, numbered and signed.  

CARNOVSKY