The eTextile Lounge : a global hackerspace by Lynne Bruning

Bio for body pixel:

Lynne Bruning is an award winning wearable artist, eTextile innovator and, as she likes to title herself, ‘a textile enchantress, lover of black sand beaches, tangerine bikinis and fast connections.’ She holds an Bachelor of Arts in neurophysiology and Masters in architecture. Her artworks have been published in numerous fashion magazines, web zines and all over the blogosphere. She lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Lynne is pretty active member and proponent of DIY scene in eTextiles and wearable tech fields. 

Last 22 march of 2011 she created "The eTextile Loungue" a meeting point via ustream for fashion wereable and computing innovators, trend setters and wide-eyed novies, like she said.. A meet between colleagues to show their creations, blogs, ideas and dreams...

See more about this fantastic loungue in:
http://www.lbruning.com/etextiles/global-etextile-hackerspace-tuesday-nights-on-ustream/

And you will can download a pdf of the week whit all the information such a webs, blogs, artists and local meeting points.

Thanks Lynne for this great idea and for make this space possible ;)

Photo by Lynne Bruning

Time Traveling the Techno-Handmade Revolution by Sally Fort

Sally Fort Craft & Design Curator
 
Lly Sally Fort is a craft & design curator, cultural participation and learning consultant, and textiles designer-maker. In 2005 Sally received funding to research the DIY / counter-culture craft scene in the US and UK. This led to the 2009 project UK DIY, including the UK’s first exhibition of counter-culture crafts, accompanied by events and projects across the North West. With a special interest in relationships between craft and web 2.0, Sally is currently developing a crowd-sourced exhibition marrying code and textiles.
When she’s not doing that, Sally is usually helping galleries, museums, universities and schools work more effectively with their communities through participatory arts and cultural activity.

You can find her at www.sallyfort.com or @sallyent on twitter

Is one of the speakers in this years “Post Craft” session at the FutureEveything conference.

Read the article in:
http://futureeverything.org/articles/time-traveling-the-techno-handmade-revolution-by-sally-fort/

FashionCampLA: The First Fashion + Technology UNConference In LA

FashionCamp LA is free and volunteer-run, in which anyone can present and everyone is encouraged to share their knowledge about fashion. Volunteering with Fashion Camp is a great way to meet new people working in fashion, learn about fashion technology, fashion eCommerce, and fashion 2.0. If you’re in the Los Angeles area on May 15th and May 16th, 2010 and are interested in how technology in fashion (blogging, social media, social networking, podcasting, videos, mobile content, etc) works, then please join and help out.

Volunteers can help out in various ways, including (but not limited to):

*Planning Fashion Camp LA.
*Presenting at Fashion Camp LA. Please send a blurb of what you want to speak on.
*Setting up/Taking down of the event.

 if you’re interested in volunteering:
LA@fashioncamp.org

More info in:
http://www.la.fashioncamp.org/

Metamorfosi / Metamorphosis by Elisabetta Cianfanelli & Stoffel Kuenen

The nature of the consumer goods industry is changing: the way it interacts with users, the way it operates and manufactures and the products it makes. A framework is sketched for collaboration between industry and universities, commerce and research, where value of the past gives form to the future with the tools and materials that current technologies provide. This book focusses on the Italian fashion system as an example of a sector wrought with tradition, saper fare and high quality that forms a fertile ground for a human-centered application of the latest technologies in all aspects of the production chain, ranging from strategic and marketing aspects, to processes and tools of production, from materials used and sustainable strategies to the skills of the designer. The user forms the center of the fashion product. Hence fashion products are presented, in which a subtle application of state-of-the-art technologies extend functional, expressive and communicative properties, resulting in metamorphic fashion.

Scientifically responsible: Elisabetta Cianfanelli
Scientific coordinator: Stoffel Kuenen
Research team: Roberta Baccolini, Gabriele Goretti, Ambra Trotto
Graphic design: Giulia Mari, Veronica Cornacchini, Ilaria Cornacchini, Ilaria Ruffino -
Italian revision: Patrizia Salis
Italian and English text

© Polistampa 2010, cm 16,5x23,5, pp. 200, ill. col., cart., € 32,00
ISBN: 978-88-596-0787-8

Functional Aesthetics Visions in Fashionable Technology by Sabine Seymour

Functional Aesthetics, the sequel to Seymour’s highly acclaimed book Fashionable Technology (Springer 2008), explores state-of-the-art artistic and design examples with a focus on their aesthetic and functional aspects. Chapters such as Context as Prerequisite, Body Sculpture, or Transparent Sustainability provide in-depth studies of visionary projects between the poles of fashion, design, technology, and sciences, which could stimulate new developments in the blossoming field of Fashionable Technology. The book also includes relevant information on DIY resources, publications, inspirations, and much more.

Graphic Design: Mahir Mustafa Yavuz
Research Assistance: Ricardo O'Nascimento
Copyediting & Proof Reading:
Peter Blakeney & Christine Schöffler

ISBN 978-3-7091-0311-3

www.softcircuitsaturdays.com

Hi, I’m Angela and I’m a maker.

Interested in digital arts, wearable and physical computing, crafts and how all these things can combine. Angela decided to start compiling her favorite links/research and document some experiments and prototypes to share every weekend here at Soft Circuit Saturdays.
She first discovered e-textiles, craft technology, and wearable computing during her time at Bennington College, while exploring physical computing. In her senior year she spent 2 months doing an independent Field Work Term researching, collecting samples, and trying out soft circuit techniques. This research led to a project called REACTIVEfashion, a collaboration with Rebecca Grabman that demonstrated her experiments in the form of a playful (and electrified) costume showcase.
Right now she continuing her explorations in the field and constantly trying new things. Angela presents a lot of prototypes in person at a monthly gathering called NH Media Makers and she working on organizing a DIY/Maker crafting group.  If you live in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, or Southern Maine and work with these forms or are interested in collaborating she  would love to hear from you.

More info in:
Angela@SoftCircuitSaturdays.com

Interactive Soft Circuits and eTextiles Workshop with Arduino Lilypad in Berkeley

Interactive Soft Circuits and eTextiles Workshop with Arduino Lilypad in Berkeley, California

Saturday June 26 and Sunday June 27, 2010

"In this hands-on weekend workshop we will cut, sew, weave, knit, felt and layer specialized electrotextiles, conductive threads and conventional electronics to create interactive soft circuits for wearables, musical instruments, jewelry and other responsive systems. We will make e-textile pressure, stretch and position sensors connect them to the Lilypad wearable computing platform and use led's and small speakers for output. We will draw inspiration from my large collection of materials, devices and projects reviewing best practices in commercial, academic and DIY eTextile work."

http://www.adrianfreed.com/content/interactive-soft-circuits-and-etextiles-workshop-arduino-lilypad-berkeley-california

The Climate dress by Diffus

The Climate Dress is made of conductive embroidery, over hundred of tiny LED lights inserted into the embroidey, a CO2 sensor and an Arduino Lilypad microprocessor. The LEDs visualize the level of CO2 in the nearby surroundings and are powered trough the embroidery!
For The Climate Dress we used soft conductive thread that has a similar consistence to the kind of thread used for traditional and industrial embroidery production. This way it is possible to make embroidery that become more than an esthetical element in clothing and interior textiles.

The embroidery becomes functional conveying electricity and computer information and thereby give "power to the dress". The dress senses the CO2 concentration in the air, then accordingly creates diverse light patterns varying from slow, regular light pulsations to short and hectic. The technology, which integrates ”soft circuits” into the production of embroidery, is an innovative process. It is the result of a fruitful collaboration between Copenhagen based design studio diffus, Swiss embroidery company Forster-Rohner, the Danish research-based limited company Alexandra Institute and finally the Danish School of Design.

Credit:
Concept an production: Diffus Design (Hanne Louise Johannesen and Michel Guglielmi).
Fashion Design: Tine Jensen
Technique: Alexandra Institute and innovation network Infinit.
(Rikke Koch, innovation consultant / Jerker Hammarberg, R&D Engineer / Jesper Nielsen, R&D Engineer).
Embroidery: Forstner Rohner AG.
(Jan Zimmerman)
Sewing: Karin Eggert Hansen and Marija Andonovska
With the participation of the Danish Design School:
Students: Anakarin Lundgren, Carolin Gresbach, Liza Frederika Åslund, Maya Fabrin  Born, Nancy Kaiser, Natascha Heller, Sarah März.

Hais stylist: Morten Kongsbak (Agence  Scoop  Models)
Model: Anne Sophie Fioritto Thompsen (Elite Models)
Photography: Anni Lauesen

More info in:
http://www.diffus.dk/pollutiondress/intro.htm

Future Textiles competition

Show us your ideas and win 50,000 DKK (EUR 6,500) and a chance to meet the experts!
Knowledge Centre for Smart Textiles invites textile, fashion design and engineering students to participate in the international Prize Competition Future Textiles. Students compete with fellow students to present the best idea within smart textiles.
If you are selected as a finalist, we will also invite you to take part in Future Textiles' Expert Summit in Herning, Denmark from 11th to 13th May.
The winner takes home a cash prize of 50,000 DKK (EUR 6,500).

Future Textiles Prize Competition

The Prize Competition in connection with Future Textiles is for textile, fashion, design and engineering students and is part of a three-week programme, which consists of an Expert Summit, the exhibition "pretty Smart Textiles" and much more. Future Textiles takes place in Herning, Denmark from 2nd to 19th May 2011, and is hosted by Knowledge Centre for Smart Textiles at TEKO Design + Business VIA University College.
Click the picture below for presentation video.

More info in:
http://www.futuretextiles.dk/competition

Plug and Wear

DIY materials for smart fabrics
http://www.plugandwear.com/

Talk2myShirt

The home base of Wearable Electronics:

• The Culture
• The Products
• The Technologies
• The Future

There are many sites about Wearable Electronics. So, why another one?

http://www.talk2myshirt.com/

Sparkle* TuTu by Lynne Bruning

Instructable in:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Sparkle-TuTu/

Designer |	Lynne Bruning
Technology |	Aniomagic
Photographer |	Dan Jahn
MUA |	Julie
Model |	Sharla

Textile messages in Philadelphia: Friday, April 22

Participan:

Joanna Berzowska
http://www.berzowska.com/

Leah Bucley
http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=85

Michael Einsenberg
http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~ctg/Craft_Tech.html

Yasmin Kafai
http://yasminkafai.com/

Maggie Orth
http://www.maggieorth.com/index.html

Lylie Peppler
http://kpeppler.com/

Fashioning the future by Suzanne Lee

Suzanne Lee is Senior Research Fellow in Fashion at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London and is a creative consultant for several London-based fashion designers. Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones are an internationally celebrated creative team, renowned for their photography, art direction and design. Their clients include Issey Miyake, Björk, Massive Attack, Boucheron, Cacharel, Hermès, Nike and Sony.

Wearable Technology and Physical Computing Salon

fter today’s Arduino and Soft Circuitry courses, we will be hosting the first installment of our Creative Technology Salons moderated by New York’s Matt Ganucheau and Lara Grant. The subject matter: wearable technologies and physical computing.

CTS Salons are an extension to our Creative Technology Studies Program. These are curated platforms for students, alumni, and faculty. Those enrolled will be invited to exhibit at hacker show-and-tells moderated by some of the world’s finest creative coding specialists.
Our CTS Salons are platforms for peer-to-peer co-working that are designed to help cultivate new skills and techniques with some of the world’s leading technologists, artists, and developers. Keynotes, discussions, and open format co-working culminate in a day of feedback and critique. These open forums are a great way to connect directly with experts and potential collaborators. The salons are designed for all levels and are exclusively available to Gray Area members and those who have enrolled in our Creative Technology Studies program.

Time: 4pm – 5pm
Location: GAFFTA (998 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94102)
Cost: Free
Join us at the salon today and sign up for our CTS program! We’ve listed some of April’s courses below.

April 12, 14, 19, 21 Tues.+  Thurs. 6pm – 9pm
Processing
April 16, 17 Sat. + Sun. 10am – 4pm
Data Visualization / Digital Cartography

Soft Circuitry with LilyPad Arduino at GAFFTA by Lara Grant

YA PASÓ!!! PERO AHÍ QUEDA:

Lara Grant will be teaching a weekend intensive course at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) April 2nd and 3rd. This course will cover the basics of electricity, circuit building and the techniques and materials used to make soft circuits. Workshop participates with be given a short overview of soft circuitry in the context of wearables, art and technology and will be given project based instruction through the construction of soft circuits using conductive thread and fabrics. Students will build two circuits, one using a 555 timer IC and one using the LilyPad, while integrating soft switches and sensors into each. 

Not only will students walk away with circuits made in the workshop, but also a list of sources for materials and further online resources to further their education outside of the workshop.

Class Outline:

Day One:

Short history of wearables and an overlook of contemporary projects

Intro to electrical components and schematics

Intro to wearable conductive materials

Hands-on portion:

How to prototype a sound generating circuit on a breadboard

How to use a multimeter

Making of wearable switches and variable resistors

Integration of switches and resistors with breadboard circuit

Assignment: Download and install arduino software from arduino.cc

Day Two:

Intro to the LilyPad Arduino

Intro to available sensors and handmade options

Translating from the breadboard to a soft circuit

Overview of resources for materials and further education outside of the workshop

Hands-on portion:

Fabrication of musical textile

Lara is one half of the sister team Felted Signal Processing (FSP) that explores textile based musical controllers and has extensive experience creating interactive fashion, objects and performances with (and without) the use of technology through soft circuitry.

Afterwards there will be a Salon with fellow instructor Matt Ganucheau who will be teaching Arduino 101 the same weekend. Matt and Lara will be giving a brief presentation concerning their work in physical computing and wearable technology in an open format where students, alumni and faculty mix to discuss pertinent work.

Enroll in Soft Circuitry
Enroll in Arduino 101

Lara Grant

Taller de circuitos suaves y bordado

Preparando un proyecto de taller, para recibir la primavera con leds y energía!! :)

Nómada Market: Feria de Diseño Independiente en Madrid

En el corazón de Madrid, en pleno barrio histórico, y recuperando el valor de las tradicionales galerías, Atocha 24 acoge desde hoy y hasta el próximo domingo la Feria de Diseño Independiente "Nómada Market"

El espacio dispone de 4 plantas que cuentan con más de 30 locales destinados a albergar tiendas de moda, calzado, complementos, peluquería, tatuajes, tendencias urbanas, diseño nacional e internacional y con un espacio multicultural donde se acogen exposiciones temporales, música en vivo, presentaciones y eventos.

http://escaparateatocha24.com/

152 diseñadores/as participan este fin de semana en el "Nómada Market" ropa, ilustración, accesorios y objetos decorativos ocupan las 4 plantas de "Atocha 24" acompañados de conciertos, toquines de DJ Maderfaker y sorpresas varias protagonizan esta segunda edición tras la llevada a cabo el pasado mes de diciembre.

Consulta el programa completo en:

http://www.nomadamarket.com/