Indigo Visualisation

It was first time to use the photograph studio.

We had a such fun!

Thank you for Emily & Yasmin.

Indigo Project Drawings

Drawing with Felt Pens

Tried to keep the felt pens effect on the final samples.

Indigo Project

DECADENCE IN AUSTERITY

- 1960’s Food Advertisement & Brand

Exaggerate

Big Scale

Colourful

Graphic

Pop Art

Dots

Clear Line

Contrast

   I felt guilty while I was using workshop for dyeing, silkscreen work. Because the process of them is requires lots of water and the chemical powder. I was wondered is there another way to reduce the resources for creating products. It could be a natural dye technique to reduce the chemical or maybe digital print, even though it cost lots of money. I realised that these are all related to sustainable textile which I had a lecture in 1year. At that time, I had an opportunity to take a class about sustainable textile. It was good to connect from my personal work to sustainable ways through this top class.

  Also I got some idea for seeing ahead in future textile.  Thanks to the class, I felt much closer to the sustainable textile. Because before taking this lesson, I thought sustainable is out of question for me and requires lots of knowledge and scientific skills. However I realised that sustainable can be inspired from our real life. I saw a possibility to creating my work with sustainability.

  I researched about one specific ideas and designers’ work. Generally, My blog research is lack of dealing with broad way to see the sustainable ideas. I couldn’t think about how can I relate to my work from sustainable ideas and concept.

Before I researched about ideas in sustainable, it was necessary for me to think about what is the fundamental problem cause of environment and so further I thought ‘Why the sustainable textile is coming out?’.  I’ve got motivations and directions to research from these questions. The most I impressed from one of my research is ‘Homeboy LA community’.  It gave me confidence about possibility to solving various problems at the same time. This community show up synergy effects and could be a model for other communities which struggling with crime and unemployment problems.

  At the end of research, I was thinking about function and practical usage in our real life with sustainable designed objects.  Some sustainable designs are easy to adapt in our real life but others are not. It’s quite hard to judge whether dysfunctional ideas are bad or not. It was interesting to think about that.

Consumerism is always belonging with us. Most of objects are related to consumerism. We cannot live without stuff.  Clothes are part of the stuff which we need for living our life. They are not the only functional way to wear anymore. Customer has broad choices to get various kinds of clothes. The problem is after they consume them.  Of course, the amount of disposed clothes is increasing. I don’t think we cannot block for customers not to throw them away. But we can make the speed of process that is between a consuming day and a disposing day slowly. I think a role of this mission is up to designers.  This role is only included for specific designers but someday, I hope most of designers care about sustainability.

   Design that Explores Clean / Better Technologies   &   Design that Looks at Models

   from Nature & History

Have you heard the bio couture?   Textile design is not always consisted with only fabrics and yarns anymore.  why not with plant roots?  tea bags? or moulds?  Some textile designers explore for the non existed territory in textile market. It is called ’ Future Textile’. To make some future textiles, some designers collaborate with scientists. I think to create some futuristic idea, it needs science skill.  

There is a future textile designer who is making bio couture. She is making garments with tea bags. Basically, the material is friendly to environment and very futuristic as well. However, Is it practical to use for real life? It looks quite fragile to wear.

What she’s done is for textile technique’s level to go up.     

Video reference from science museum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WVW-jSdhILs

Reference from TED

Fashion designer Suzanne Lee directs the BioCouture research project, which sprang from an idea in her book Fashioning the Future: Tomorrow’s Wardrobe, a seminal text on fashion and future technologies. Her research harnesses nature to propose a radical future fashion vision: Can we grow a dress from a vat of liquid?

Using bacterial-cellulose, Lee aims to address pressing ecological and sustainability issues around fashion and beyond. A Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, she is working with scientists to investigate whether synthetic biology can engineer optimized organisms for growing future consumer products

“I’m also creating new bacterial-cellulose composite swatches looking at eco-substrates like hemp. This month I’m teaching an exciting project exploring systems and synthetic biology to postgraduate textile and industrial design students alongside eminent scientists from Cambridge University.”

Suzanne Lee in the TED2011 Fellows guide

Her Quote

“What I’m looking for is a way to give material the qualities that I need. So what I want to do is say to a future [insect], ‘Spin me a thread. Align it in this direction. Make it hydrophobic. And while you’re at it, just form it around this 3D shape.’”

4)    Design to Dematerialise and Develop Systems, Services   &   Design Activism 

  I think designers’ role is to help the society ,getting better practically and visually. Design activism help people to interact with society and some organisations. There is a designer, Shigeru Ban, who is architect. He is mainly designing for social places and communities. I was very impressed his cardboard paper tubes for his architecture material. He is concerned about sustainability for architecture wise. Below example show up his design activism was absolutely helped to the society including public who are struggling with living their life after huge catastrophe.       

   On december 1st and 2nd, 2011, the design for asia (DFA) award was presented at the business of design week (BODW), both organized by 
the hong kong design center. for their emergency shelter paper partition system, japanese architect shigeru ban together with the voluntary 
architects’ network were honored with the gold DFA award in the category of environmental design.

the BODW in hong kong is asia’s leading annual event on design, innovation and brands. designboom attended as international media partner 
of BODW and has been a jury member of the DFA - design for asia awards. shigeru ban lectured also at the BODW on december 3rd, 2011. 

after the earthquake in japan, many families found themselves living on the floor of shelters and gymnasiums, 
sharing one space with strangers in the same situation. although this was tolerable for a few days, their lack of privacy 
started becoming an issue after weeks of living in this way.

made of two sizes of cardboard tubing, plywood, ropes and white curtains, the modular system allows for fast and easy assembly 
and disassembly. the structure can be made different dimensions for different sized families depending on where the cloth is hung. 
1,800 individual units of PPS paper partition system were assembled in 50 provisional shelters for evacuees affected by the disaster.
it is a cost effective solution to harness materials that are easily available and recyclable.

3) Layered Design Thinking Workshop

Quilt is always remind me domestic job. If the quilt is made by digital print? The designer, Mark, create the digital quilt. Digital print is became popular from textile and fashion industry due to be simple and easy to print. Some people think digital print could be a sustainable textile because it isn’t necessary to use water. For my opinion, the process of printing digitals seems to be saving resource. If the products go to customers, are they long lasting for customers to use?  What I mean is if digitals are easy to print, they could be easy to dispose as well.

There was an quilt event about Aids in Washington D.C.  I think they put the process of making quilt into Aids memorial context very well. Each patches have each person’s memorial moment with Aids. All of them which get together give to public a new message about preventing aids. They made the quilt for different kind of function in a different context.    

http://www.2015quilt.com - quilt event official website

From University of Iowa Digital Studio for Public Humanities website

This past summer, for the first time since 1996, the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was laid out in its entirety on the National Mall in Washington D.C. At 1.3 million square feet, the Quilt is the largest living monument in the world.

  The Quilt celebrates the lives lost to the pandemic. From the crafting of the very first panel to this day, the project provides a means for friends and family to commemorate a loved one. Composed of panels the approximate size of a coffin—it pays tribute to the lives of close to 100,000 individuals who have died in the AIDS pandemic. Each panel is painstakingly hand-crafted by those who knew and loved these individuals. Each panel carries the emotional weight of a life lived, of loving relationships, and of heartfelt loss.And while our entire adult lives have been deeply affected by the pandemic, we weren’t quite prepared for the emotional and social experience of gathering with thousands on America’s most public space to commemorate our loss. A memorial gives us the opportunity to share in the very humanness of our being; in our collective vulnerability; in our suffering; and in our healing.

the Quilt 2012 events taking place in Washington DC from June 27-July 27, 2012.  Each of these experiences was created in collaboration with Dale MacDonald and the NAMES Project Foundation as well as with several other partners across the US.  The year 2012 marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Quilt.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a unique work of international ARTS ACTIVISM that reflects the worldwide scope and personal impact of the AIDS pandemic.

• The textile Quilt is composed of 48,000 individual PANELS that commemorate more than 93,000 NAMES.
• The size of the physical Quilt measures more than 1.3 million square feet.  If laid out in its entirety, it would cover more than 29 acres of land.
• It would take a visitor more than 33 days to view every panel—spending only 1 minute at each panel.
• It is the largest LIVING MEMORIAL of its kind in the world.

2) Design to Replace the Need to Consume   &    Design for Ethical Production

 The fast fashion are secure the wide range of customers. Fashion trend is changed fast. At the end, the waste of clothes are increasing.  It’s quite hard to reducing the amount of products which are manufacturing but we can replace them for different ways. It could be  swaping the clothes  rather than throw them away. Fair trading would be reducing the wastes. 

In the process of producing clothes, The waste of textile are coming up. so communities and social organisations can produce something else with the waste of textile. I think the role of communities and social organisations is very important to operate whole system. There is example ‘Home Boy’. They  are producing products and also solving problems for unemployment and neglected class of people. 

Newton: Nurturing hope at Homeboy Industries

Op-Ed

Imagine Los Angeles without Homeboy Industries. Imagine that the 350 or so men and women who work at Homeboy’s various operations instead had no help finding jobs. Imagine that the 500 or so young people in the pipeline for work at Homeboy were suddenly deprived of that chance for gainful employment, security, support and stability. Imagine that the thousands of young men and women who every year have tattoos removed at Homeboy instead showed up for job interviews with necks and arms and shoulders boasting of a life they’d prefer to put behind them.

This organisation is bigger and bigger. They are developed to producing wise and products.    I hope I can see more organisations to help reducing the wastes.

Top - Sustainable Design 

1)  Design to Reduce Chemical Impacts     &    Design to Reduce Energy & Water use

When I was creating some textile samples while in the terms, I was overwhelmed about using water and chemicals.  For example, To dyeing some fabric is needed a lot of water. There are synthetic dye and natural dye but chemical dyeing is  easier than the other.

 The thing is if I want to make some samples from natural and sustainable process, it need lots of labors, time and also money. So I couldn’t try something related to sustainable for my previous term. 

The first class of sustainable design gave me inspiration of concept and ideas about reducing wasted resources and impact to environment.  Furthermore, well known brands are moving toward the sustainability, even slowly.  

press reference

NIKE, Inc. is committed to the goal of zero discharge of hazardous chemicals by 2020.

To make this a reality, NIKE, Inc. will continue phasing out hazardous chemicals in our supply chain and we will accelerate the phase out of the highest priority hazardous chemicals. NIKE, Inc. will continue to work with brands, material suppliers, the broader chemical industry, NGOs and other stakeholders to achieve this goal. We will drive towards innovative solutions for transparency in chemical management disclosure.

We recognize the path to reaching this goal must be through innovation, the application of green chemistry, and broad industry and regulatory collaboration and engagement. NIKE, Inc.’s commitment and investment towards this goal and the dedication to system change is unwavering.

We will work tirelessly to affect system change across the industry towards this goal. This commitment includes sustained investment in moving industry, government, science and technology to deliver on systemic change.

We commit to continue to share what we learn, our approaches and tools and work with others8 in finding new solutions and removing existing barriers, and to report progress towards comprehensive chemicals management.

Puma had already made a similar commitment:

In line with PUMA’s long-term sustainability program, the Sportlifestyle company PUMA recognizes the urgent need for reducing and eliminating industrial releases of all hazardous chemicals . According to its approach based on prevention and precautionary principles, PUMA is committed to eliminate the discharges of all hazardous chemicals from the whole lifecycle and all production procedures that are associated with the making and using of PUMA products by 2020.

PUMA understands the `scope´ of the commitment to be a longterm vision – with short term practice to be defined in the clarification of actions to follow. To ensure transparency, PUMA will report on the progress of this commitment in its annual PUMA Sustainability Report.

An Action Plan will be set up by PUMA within eight weeks from the time this commitment was made.

http://www.levistrauss.com/sustainability/product/life-cycle-jean

This link is about Levis sustainable activity. 

I think big brands’ sustainable movement influence for public to have a perception about possibility of sustainable textile. 

Final visualisation for Home & Away project

Home & Away Exhibition

In Chelsea College Of Art & Design

Colour Chits Display

Colour Chits 

Play with colours!

These are my colour chits reference.

Pompidou Centre In Paris.

This is Home & Away project.

Inspired Pompidou Centre’s inside out structure and line movement.

Geographic, Neutral colour, Plastic, see through, layers 

Final mobile for space project.