Digital Visions for Fashion + Textiles: Made in Code Sarah E. Braddock Clarke 9780500516447

The invention of the Jacquard loom in eighteenth-century France paved the way for computing and revolutionary change. From its punch-card origins, code has evolved to define and enable new methods in design, making, visualization, production and communication, achieving the previously unimaginable. Digital Visions for Fashion + Textiles: Made in Code considers how computing has reinvented image, material and structural processes, highlighting newly advancing 2D, 3D and interactive output. Pioneering shifts of practice have developed from hybrid technical and creative collaborations. Digital and analogue fusions are defining new contexts for the innovative fabrication of surfaces, products and environments. Twenty-two of the most forward-thinking practitioners, established and emerging, who have embraced developing digital technologies are profiled. Featured are household names, such as Hussein Chalayan, Prada and Issey Miyake, early pioneers (Vibeke Riisberg, Peter Struycken) and more independent, avant-garde individuals (Iris van Herpen, Casey Reas, Tom Gallant). Complete with a reference section and bibliographic information, this unique and richly illustrated book is the perfect resource and inspiration for designers, students, industry professionals, and anyone looking for an exploration of how computer technology has creatively permeated fashion, textiles and related digital sectors. * A richly illustrated exploration of how computer technology has creatively permeated fashion, textiles and related digital sectors. * Features profiles of 22 of the most forward-thinking creative practitioners at the vanguard of these developments. * Includes essential list of key biographies and bibliography.

An exploration of the incredible advances in computer-aided design and its revolutionary impact in the fields of fashion and textiles

About the Author
Sarah E. Braddock Clarke is a consultant/curator and Senior Lecturer in Fashion Design and Performance Sportswear Design at University College Falmouth. She has co-authored numerous books on advanced textiles and their applications to fashion and performance sportswear, including Techno Textiles and Sports Tech, both published by Thames & Hudson. Jane Harris is a professor of Digital Imaging Design at Kingston University, Surrey.

Reviews
'This heavily illustrated book considers how computing has altered materials and processes within textiles disciplines' - Crafts



Book Information
ISBN 9780500516447
Author Sarah E. Braddock Clarke
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight(grams) 1430g