Iris Van Herpen

Dutch fashion designer, Iris Van Herpen has collaborated with architect Daniel Widrig to create a 3D printed garment as part of her recent spring-summer collection, “Crystallization”, inspired by the process of water transforming into crystal.

You have to see his website for more picutres and previous collection. Amazing work, love it !!!

http://www.irisvanherpen.com/

FOC Freedom of Creation

 

Rapid Manufactured (RM) textiles have opened a new frontier of possibilities for the production of textiles in the future. Instead of producing textiles by the meter, then cutting and sewing them together into final products, the concept has the ability to make

needle and thread one day obsolete. After several years of research in software, materials and surface quality, the first commercial products were launched for the

public by Freedom of Creation (FOC) in 2005.

FOC, Amsterdam-based design consultancy are pioneers in 3D printing, and recently showed the collection of 3D printed textiles and pieces woven in 3D-printed fabrics at the MOMA in New York, as part of the exhibition “Action! Design Over Time”.

 

Since there are no machines in the world made specifically to manufacture interlocking textile patterns by layers, they employed Rapid Manufacturing techniques,

such as Laser Sintering (LS) for their manufacture.

Helen Storey

Artist, designer and scientist, Helen Storey, has developed an enzyme-based, water-soluble textile which she weaves into garments that dissolve over time.  Interested in challenging common notions of sustainability.

 

Storey is currently on view at the Royal Academy of Arts with her installation, “Say Goodbye”, which demonstrates the disappearing quality of her fashion as part of GSK Contemporary - Aware: Art Fashion Identity.

 http://www.helenstoreyfoundation.org/

Spray on Fabric by Fabrican

Spanish fashion designer, Dr. Manel Torres, has dedicated 10 years of research to developing a spray-on fabric called “Fabrican”. Spray on fabric is a patented technology. An instant non-woven fabric is formed through the creation of a liquid suspension dispensed by spray gun or aerosol can.

The liquid fabric sprays on as cross-linking fibers, which adhere together. Eliminating the need for pattern-cutting and sewing, a designer can build a garment by the touch of a finger tip. It's seems magic !!!  Check out the video below.

http://www.fabricanltd.com/

Atelier Manferni laser cutting

Italian civil engineer and UCLA trained architect Elena Manferdini is the founder of multidisciplinary design studio Atelier Manferdini. The company explores the creative potential of laser-cutting in the fields of architecture, fashion, and product design.

Bloom is a set of laser-cut stainless steel trays that can be folded into bowls.

This laser-cut textile and fashion collection named 'Clad Cuts' is about “the sensitivity associated with revealing and concealing the body and engages the problem of creating openings on a complex surface.”

'Marletti' is an installation inspired by lace making and serves as a compelling backdrop to Manferdini’s black garments with patterned cut-outs.

The Fabric Tower is an amazing concept for a 150,000 sqft residential high-rise in China. The structure is “an articulate response to the site’s natural landscape and its minority cultures.”




Vertical garden is a gold-finished stainless steel, dynamic structure designed for a MAK Center competition.

 


Below is a model for the future Museo Calamante which includes a public library and open theater.
 


And the Ricammi table, laser-cut metal and available at the Arktura Shop for just $399 !! :)

These visual merchandising panels  has been designed for fashion label Valentino. The use of mirrored materials and laser-cut shapes create an ethereal display of shadows. The reflected light which compliment the white leather accessories and silver hardware. I think this is my favourite example, I love the light effects made by the laser-cut shapes. it's quite the same effect that you could have using photogram techniques (techniques i am exploring for my personal studio project).




Have a look to the web site  : http://ateliermanferdini.com/

Eunsuk Hur

Eunsuk Hur graduated  in 2009 from Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London with a degree in Design for Textile Futures. She experiments a new way of getting dressed or of decorating your house by proposing in a modular approach in her project Nomadic Wonderland. A system of "puzzle" which allows to assemble (according to your wish and your creativity) elements of various materials: leather, felt, wood. Eunsuk uses etching, sewing, and LASER CUTTING  techniques(among other things) to create her installations and fashion. A bag, a dress, a screen ... you can create the work you want !!

http://www.eunsukhur.com/

Saloukee : Jewellery made in paper

The name ‘Saloukee’ comes from its creator : Sarah Louise Kelly, who creates sculptured art jewellery made in paper.

 

She loves working with the sensitive, ephemeral nature of paper, much more than the metals which she had been traditionally trained with.  Many of the pieces include several hundred hand pressed rivets, intricate laser cutting and self taught folding techniques.

Necklaces, bracelets, brooches, earrings, RINGS !! Saloukee jewellery is the perfect gift for a first year wedding anniversary !

 

www.saloukee.com