www.wetheurban.com/post/45232804606/fashion-elvira-t-harts-wearable-2d-garments
“As with a lot of design work, sometimes the most interesting aspect is the sketch before the final product. Recent graduate and fashion designer Elvira ‘t Hart’s latest collection aims to translate those beastly 2D sketches to garments.”
Aisha Tandiwe Bell’s Blue Bath
kenyaworkspace.blogspot.com/2010/04/bath-in-bucket.html#links
superhueman.com/artwork/1026686_blue_bath.html
A performance with multiple casts of the figure and her face.
I’m thinking about lasercutting and paper/origami for wearables use, so here are some images along that vein
A friend of mine (Alex Wolfe) did a big project last year with laser-cut origami wearables that I really loved, and there are some really cool ways to lasercut perforations to fold paper along.
More on that project here: golancourses.net/2012spring/05/09/alex-wolfe-mahvish-nagda-waterbomb/
Lots more photos if you click more:
This artist, Cal Lane, laser cuts (and sometimes plasma cuts) really intricate designs into different garden tools and old objects. I haven’t really seen anyone who takes found objects and laser cuts things into them, since it seems like most laser cutting is done with new materials.
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The guys who invented the Makerbot (the super cheap 3D printer) also figured out a way to modify printer cartridges to print suger. They used that to make a 3D printer that solidifies sugar to make objects. I couldn’t find the original article but here’s a couple objects, including a giant screw, printed using this method.
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Although this artist does not usually use mold making in his process, almost all of his art centers around the replication of things. I did find one example of a piece that I’m pretty sure used molds, but it’s mainly his artistic philosophy that I feel exactly fits this class. These are latex masks cast from the artist’s face.
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I read this article by Robin Sloan last Spring and really enjoyed it, and is SUPER on point as far as our next section (scanning and printing). Robin Sloan is an writer, not an artist by trade, but he has done some interesting things digitally, such as being the first person ever to integrate twitter into a live TV broadcast (during the 2008 presidential campaign), or releasing a “tappable essay” as an ipad app. I highly encourage you to read the article because it’s the bomb.com. His work often comments on trends in digital and popular culture.
www.robinsloan.com/note/flip-flop/
Quoteable quotes:
“the flip-flop (n.) the process of pushing a work of art or craft from the physical world to the digital world and back again—maybe more than once”
“It is probably the fate of most fruits of the flip-flop, indeed most works of art, in the early 21st century to end up as animated GIFs.”
The team of Sheila Munro and Matthew J. Chin of “Dropping Form Designs” create jewelry as well as sculptures, and even cell phone cases. Their work is very intricately detailed, and seems to follow a pattern throughout the various pieces.
