Seen at DDW: The T-shirt issue
The T-shirt Issue is an interdisciplinary collective that combines fashion, design and technology into unique basic apparel, ranging from daily wearables to conceptual installations. The collective is fascinated by the triangular polygon, a geometric shape they see as the basic unit of digital substance and wearable form. With this new approach The T-shirt Issue establishes a new dimension in which 2D, 3D and the space in between is reconsidered and experimented with.
For the project Digital Portraits (image) animals are portrayed digitally by scanning their bodies. The output of this scan is a 3D file, of which the resolution is defined by the amount of polygons – similar to pixels in a bitmap graphic. Linked with biographical memories, a digital twin of the body is created, extending the garment a formal-poetic character. The 3D data is turned into 2D sewing patterns by using the unfolding function, which is a common tool used for paper models. The fabric and the inner interface, which defines the edges, are cut out with a laser cutter. Using strictly jersey as fabric, the perceived complexity of the garments is reduced to an approachable and basic level. Go check it out before 23 December at Mu in Eindhoven!
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