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Open Source + Craft Conference Deadlines

Valérie Lamontagne — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:05:18 +0000

Two exciting calls for upcoming conference events on craft, fashion and technology! Open Source Hardware Association in partnership with Eyebeam Art + Technology Centre are organizing the Read more..

The Car Liberation Front

Valérie Lamontagne — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:58:41 +0000

Nothing is more démodé than the car. Automobiles are ruining our economies with rampant gas-guzzling, our environment with excess pollution, and the safety of our streets and cities with expanding car lanes and speed. In Orson Welles' 1942 film "The Magnificent Ambersons," which takes place in the upper-class setting of Indianapol... Read more..

Digital Textile Fashion Trend

Valérie Lamontagne — Tue, 01 May 2012 02:31:12 +0000

Digital textile printing has taken fashion by a storm. The spring runways were pulsating with custom-designed Technicolor and graphic photographs, and designs and printed specifically for the cut of a garment. I see this trend as growing in a near future where print and textile patterns will be designed in tandem, both economizing material and having the print accentuate the specific cut of a garment. As a result of commercial digital textile printers and small-manufacturing knitting machines, fashion designers will be able to respond to design whimsy, customization, and quick, small productio... Read more..

FashionWare CES 2012 Roundup

Valérie Lamontagne — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:55:37 +0000

An interview by the wearables start-up research group SF FASHION+TECH with Kristin Neidlinger from SENSOREE about the recent Fashi... Read more..

Anouk Wipprecht Interview

Valérie Lamontagne — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:03:54 +0000

I just published an interview with the fantastic Dutch-based fashiontech designer Anouk Wipprecht on the Fashioning Technology Blog. Anouk is a leading example of what a background i... Read more..

FLORA by Adafruit industries

Valérie Lamontagne — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:35:31 +0000

Adafruit industries is adding some competition in the field of wearable technologies hardware. For a while now, e-textiles experimentation has become synonymous with Leah Buechley's LilyPad Arduino, which... Read more..

FashionWare Show at CES

Valérie Lamontagne — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:08:01 +0000

3lectromode was recently featured in the FashionWare Show as part 2012 International CES fair in Las Vegas!

This is the US mega-tech event where all eyes are... Read more..

Grado Zero Espace & Fashionable Science

Valérie Lamontagne — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:27:22 +0000

The big question in wearable technologies is: when is it going to hit the market? There is a large chasm between research, application, design, and market-ready goods. Fortunately there are some companies out there who are specifically looking into de... Read more..

Christien Meinderstma & One Sheep Sweater

Valérie Lamontagne — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:33:33 +0000

When I fist encountered Christien Meindertsma's work, I was captivated by her novel approach to unlocking the "hidden" potentials of information/practices/materials. Meindertsma became well known for her projec... Read more..

Carole Collet & Textile Futures

Valérie Lamontagne — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:11:34 +0000

Central Saint Martins is famous in regards to high fashion and couture, having shepherded countless avant-garde luminaries such as Hussein Chalayan, John Galliano, Christopher Kane, Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo, Zac Posen, Gareth Pugh, Riccardo Tisci, Matthew W... Read more..