Smart Textiles Design Lab Blog at The Swedish School of Textiles

Temporal color expressions in garments
Temporal color expressions in garments

Contemporary preconception of color within textile design is more or less seen as a static and measurable phenomena, but in this project will the opposite be investigated, textile colors are crafted to change over time. To learn more about color expectations in textiles, a series of plant dyed garments have been developed. The garments are […]

Let your body print your dress

  Let your body print your dress Fashion designer Laura Clausen is invited by the smart textile design lab from 16th to 23th of April to have collaboration with our PhD student Marjan Kooroshnia. They are working on the research project that explores different possibilities to develop clothing as interactive tools through ways of using […]

Designing Natural Fibre Reinforced Composites

Designing Natural Fibre Reinforced Composites – Part 3. Irreversible Dynamic Patterns Researcher on this project: Zuzana Šebeková A series of pattern designs for textile composite materials for interior and/or exterior use, i.e. furniture The project is part of  the doctoral thesis, which investigates the design possibilities of surface, pattern and colour design of hemp/flax visual […]

Soft Sensors and Textile Techniques

Soft Sensors and Textile Techniques The project has two aspects: One is to experiment with textile production techniques to construct soft sensors, and the other is to contextualize these sensory materials by putting them into an interactive object. The research activity is part of the project “Design, Textiles and Sustainable Development” together with Anja Lund […]

Designing two-phase illuminated surface-patterns on textiles

Designing two-phase illuminated surface-patterns on textiles Presented by Marjan Kooroshnia at Shapeshifting: 
A Conference on Transformative Paradigms of Fashion and Textile Design 14—16 April 2014, AUT University Auckland New Zealand ABSTRACT Although extensive research projects have explored ways of creating light emitting fabric displays using LEDs, electro-luminescent wires and optical fibers, much less experimental research projects have […]

David NG McCallum
David NG McCallum

David NG McCallum
Guest researcher
Smart Textiles Design Lab