Clothing is a core part of our expression and offers ways for us to communicate who we are and the context in which we live. Technology enables a richer connection with people and our environment and offers a new platform for communication and expression.
By merging the intimacy of clothing with the empowerment of technology, electricfoxy garments strive to enhance our lives and offer a much richer language for self-expression.
As an outcome, rather than simply attaching technology to clothing, electricfoxy investigates garments that have electronics built directly into them resulting in a new aesthetic of form and behavior that become a core part of our expression, our identity, and our individuality.
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BIO
Jennifer Darmour’s entrepreneurial and design spirit has inspired her toward many start-ups and emerging software and design companies, focusing on inventing products and services for next generation user experiences. She first began investigating wearable technology while in graduate school at Art Center College of Design where she designed a collection of projects that explored wearable computing, soft textiles, and the aesthetics of circuitry as our second skin.
Her project “run” was an interactive shoe and software experience that allowed people to run and race together from different locations. The shoe consisted of a unique soft display that was integrated directly into its fabric. Another project, “mix” was an innovative wearable mobile music device targeted to overweight kids that used gesture-based movements to mix, share, customize, sync music, and to ultimately get kids moving. Her MFA thesis entitled “Experiential Prototyping” explored new ways of using storytelling and physical computing to invent and prototype natural and gesture-based user experiences for these types of next generation products and services.
Since then, she has been living in Seattle and working at Microsoft and currently Artefact where she has been designing next generation user experiences for products such as Xbox, Microsoft Surface, Windows Mobile, Sonos, American Eagle, and award-winning projects for Microsoft Live Mesh and Snowboard Connection’s The Wall.
Jennifer also blogs and runs electricfoxy, which explores wearable technology, software and the connection to larger systems, the aesthetics of circuitry, and the marketability of wearable technology solutions. See the latest project, Ping, a social networking garment.
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CONTACT
I’ll be posting my ever-growing collection of interestingness that’s going on in the wearable technology and eTextile fields. And I’m always looking for new projects and research initiatives, so send me your comments, thoughts and links to cool projects and new materials. I’ll be sure to include them!
Send an email to:
jennifer [at] electricfoxy [dot] com