Designing with Smart Textiles

✍ Scribed by Sarah Kettley

• Publisher: Fairchild Books
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If you want to understand, and be a part of, the creative revolution in materials design, then Designing with Smart Textiles is the complete toolkit you need to get started. Beginning by introducing the terminology and key applications, the book goes on to examine the key design processes needed to develop interactive textile design concepts, with detailed projects and examples to help you apply these approaches in your own practice. Case studies and interviews with innovative designers introduce you to different artistic and technological practices, and demonstrate how world-leading researchers are creating new technologies, yarns, fabrics, and applications. Practitioners share unique insights into their processes, and “Tech Tips” so you can build on their research in your own work.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
How to use this book
1 What are smart textiles?
2 The smart textile product: design processes
3 Design with smart textiles
4 Designing your own smart textile
5 Developing your practice
6 Appendix: further reading and resources
Glossary
Key academic conferences and journals
Trade fairs, organizations and residencies
Skills resources
Suppliers
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments