galaxy dress

http://www.cutecircuit.com/about/who-is-cutecircuit/

The Galaxy Dress is the center piece of the "Fast Forward: Inventing the Future" exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The museum is celebrating its 75 years and has commissioned the GalaxyDress for their permanent collection.

The GalaxyDress provides a spectacular and mesmerizing effect being embroidered with 24,000 color LEDs, it is the largest wearable display in the world. Constructed using the smallest full-color LEDs that are flat like paper and measuring only 2 by 2 mm.

Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz, the designers of this dress have constucted thus a fantasitc job. The dress pulses as flows. There is no particular reaction from external factors but the way this dress dances and plays with the lighting is amazing.
It is almost like a dance itself in time with a tune played along with it. the video best captures the way the LEDs move and play.
i would like to see this in person as in video its hard to see the full effect.

Francesca and Ryan both hold a Master in Interaction Design from Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. As researchers in Ivrea Francesca and Ryan developed projects for Sony, Hitachi, Telecom Italia, and Motorola. The projects ranged from interface design to service design and product development.

Francesca is an architect and graphic designer, and has worked as fashion designer for Esprit in Germany and Valentino in Italy. Francesca is an expert in the development of telecommunication services, user interface design, and textile engineering.

Ryan is an artist and anthropologist who has worked as art director for Signal Interactive and ASAP Media Services in United States. Ryan is specialized in motion graphics, computer programming, and wireless networks, he also worked as film/video director specializing in the creation of future scenarios.

These have been hand embroidered on the layer of silk such that it lets the LED fabric to stretch while behaving like normal fabric in lightness and fluidity. Several iPod batteries power this dress. These have enough charge to keep you glowing for a good 30 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX9FOGFxN9A&feature=player_embedded

i personally dont think that this could be the best design for the actions of this outfit. the way the lights are crafted is really beautiful with the flowing waterlike movements but the shape of the dress doesnt complement the LEDs.
the fabric is suppost to look like it is really thin and flexible but the model does not portray this outlook.

concept

from the listings i have published below and still yet to come, you can see what i am ifluenced from.
I have chosen to construct a dress made from wire mesh.
this dress is going to be wired in a way with LEDs surrounding the layers of the dress in circular forms.
the LEDs will react from temperature sensors...
or movement sensors.
i haven;t quite decided yet but i am planning on having either kinetic energy to set the LEDs on and off. as the dress is aerated, the air can move freely through the skeleton of the dress allowing the air current to be measured.
the other concept i want to do is thread small hollow metal tubes around the mesh frame to the bottom of the dress. creating a loop i will design a water filter system that will heat up the conductive metal thread. the LED temperature sensor will react when the water passes through the tubing warming up. i want a random yet controlled light movement. flowing from one area of contact down to the bottom. fading out as it goes obviously when the water cools down once it reaches the bottom of the tubing. the tubes will consist of more than just one.
i plan on having at least 15 tubes around the frame filtering up and over the dress.
self contained fountain LEDress...

what do you think?

Hyrdro outfit.

water+dress = fountain.

this dress is by Kei Kagami at the Arnhem Biennalei
i really like this idea how the tubing separately houses water aswel as circling around the bodess creating a dress structure..
future on from my research i would like to explore the previous idea of heat sensitive paint and how it reacts with travelling water.
as the water travels around the body it will be pumped from a hot base sourse and will cool down by the time in gets back to base...
if i painted stencils on the tubing structure i made as the hot water hit the tube, the paint would change colour while the water moves making a short lasting pattern appear until it cools down and then comes around again.

heat reaction

HEAT reactive paint...
this gets you excited... i love things that react with heat as anything moves the body heats up..
it would be great to have some part of the body painted with this under the costume as it heats up and changes colour the costume or object evolves through light around it.

LED eyelash

Inspired by what she terms the “Big Eye Fetish” of Asian women, Korean designer Soomi Park turned to light. Her idea is to use light as an alternative to makeup, jewelry and plastic surgery for enlarging your peeps.
She took it a step further than that by adding a feature that turns the lights off temporarily if you look in the other direction. This elaborate setup is all wired behind the ear with a small battery.

I’m wondering if it’s distracting to have the light shining below your eyes like that, but I’m willing to try it out for myself. Perfect timing for Halloween if you are planning on being some sort of celestial being!

http://images.trendhunter.com/phpthumbnails/56208_1_468.jpeg

tutu with light choreographed into the fans as the ballerina danced. i don't think the lights actually react to the movement but the dance is quite collaborate with the music and light display

LED dress

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX9FOGFxN9A
Luminous LED Dress

This glowing LED dress was made with 24,000 full-color LEDs. Two London-based fashion designers, Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz, created the garment called the ‘Galaxy Dress.’ It will be the centerpiece exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

The LED dress was created by hand embroidering extra-thin, flexible layers of LED circuits on silk. The LED dress is designed to be illuminated using many miniscule iPod batteries that are hidden in the dress’s crinoline.

The LED dress will stay lit for 30 minutes to an hour. Aside from the 24,000 LEDs the dres is also decorated with over 4000 Swarovski crystals.

...watch this video link. the way the leds light up is amazing.

i would like to research into waves and patterns. dance movements and fragility.

SeaHorse

I posted this image because i think it is really beautiful.. i like how the sea horse moves.
i would like to represent the movement and fragility through an object.

CO2 sensitive

Pollution sensoring and visualizing garment (CO2-dress): With this project we wanted to create a garment that visually changes in real-time – through evolving patterns – according to the level of CO2 in a given environment. The evolving patterns are made of LED-lights, powered by soft circuits, meaning that the circuits are made of conductive textiles and yarns and thereby softly integrated in the garment. It is a collaboration between diffus.dk, Alexandra Institute, The Danish Design School and embroidery company Forster Rohneri.

I think this dress is brilliant! it photographs so well. And also a great idea.

wearable fashion show

eco friendly necklace. an alright idea i guess. i like how the solar panels are placed fanning around the neck, although it would be better to incorporate the necklace with the outfit worn underneath.


http://boingboing.net/2008/05/29/wearable-tech-fashio.html

this video i particularly enjoyed the material outfit that as the connection touched by humans resulted in a sound.. from the resistance felt the sound was produced.
human circuits.. how can the model best react with the outfit. or vice versa.