Category Archive: Conceptual

Daan Roosegaarde explores technology and intimacy

Daan Roosegaarde explores technology and intimacy

Daan Roosegaarde is currently an artist in residence at V2_labs …

 

Sticky, Stiff and Itchy generate power

Sticky, Stiff and Itchy generate power

Continuing on the topic of alternative power harnessing, the latest exploration …

 

Lucy McRae merges fashion, technology and the body

Lucy McRae merges fashion, technology and the body

Artist Lucy McRae created this evocative piece titled TransNatural. Trained as …

 

Architecting a sleeping suit

Architecting a sleeping suit

Architect Forrest Jessee is dabbling in architecture structures applied to garments in this gorgeous and cocoon-like functional pattern. “Inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s practice of Dymaxion Sleeping, …

 

A performance installation based on tradition

A performance installation based on tradition

This performance piece was just sent to me from Miya Masaoka called LED KIMONO. Thanks for sending it in Miya! It’s a beautiful performance piece …

 

Amy Thompson creates Plastic Analogue

Amy Thompson creates Plastic Analogue

This collection was recently sent to me by my friends at n-ktr. This gorgeously functional, yet slightly unwearable collection called Plastic Analogue created by Amy Thompson instantly …

 

Solar-powered necklace

Solar-powered necklace

Designer, Plusea, created this solar-powered t-shirt with an integrated electronic necklace. A motor mounted on the shoulder runs continuously or in short bursts, depending on …

 

Diana Eng’s inflatable dress

Diana Eng’s inflatable dress

This is an older project, but still worth a reminder. Diana Eng, in collaboration with Emily Albinski, created this gorgeous dress way back in 2003, which …

 

Fractal: Living Jewelry by Philips

Fractal: Living Jewelry by Philips

Philips Design has created yet another absolutely gorgeous wearable project for their Design Probes series called Fractal: Living Jewelry. Here’s how they describe it: “Fractal is a …

 

Whispering dirty little secrets

Whispering dirty little secrets

Designer Addie Wagenknecht created this conceptual piece called Dirty Little Secrets during a wearable technology class in NYU’s ITP program. Wagenknecht is interested in the implications …