Vogue, September 2007

First read this article about the technical textiles (Fabrite factory!), and through it discovered Ohne Titel....Angel Chang, who I've done some development work with, is also mentioned. Favorite quote:

"Already fashion is highly technical. Actions and reactions take place between you and your clothes all the time"—let the jeans you've worn in all the right places be an example of this.

Disappearing ink!

Okay, it's really self-erasing paper, but it's still awesome! (although I think I'd rather have ink....)

2 community sites I never heard of before

have you?

Ravelry, a knitting site

and

Fashioning Tech, a sort of social networking site about smart textiles.
This one I know a little about (I joined), it was started by Syuzi Pakhchyan who recently wrote a book of the same name. I'm not really sure what to do on there though :P

If you're on Fashioning Tech "friend" me! I'm still waiting for an invitation to Ravelry, but I'd love to hear insights or reviews of the community!

Milk plastic

In June the Make blog posted about an Instructable on how to make plastic from milk. I thought it was pretty gross & cool and filed it away.


ew!

Well today I saw what some designers have made with milk plastic, Core 77 blog posted this:



A French design collective called Duende made a collection of jewelry out of plastic made from human breast milk! They are doing a whole exhibition of objects that explore the the relationship between mother and child and food. The exhibition will be on view in France here. (cool space, n'est-ce pas?)

I particularly love this piece since it reminds me of a small book I did maybe 5 years ago about mother's millk and father's seed....if I can find an old sample I'll post that next.