Water Textures

I was having quite a bit of fun the other day playing with watercolors and creating water textures using dots of water. The results were quite interesting and lead me to start thinking about a possible way to preserve this quality , as opposed to allowing it to dry. I love the idea of exploring some kind of hardening material in there ,maybe glycerin? I am interested in keeping this gem, jewel like quality that the dots of water create, and perhaps growing it to be huge. Would be amazing as an idea for wall coverings. It reminds me of the candy dots we used to eat as kids that came on a roll. New inspiration? I think so! - Dana

Double fun!

I am very exited about this new book from Gestalten, called 'Doppelganger' and I cant wait to buy it! Check it out, it's über cool !

"Doppelganger presents current trends in capturing the visual identity of human beings. Each of its seven chapters explores a different creative approach: Embody, Dissolve, Appeal, Reshape, Perform, Deform, and Escape. The book is a compelling and entertaining collection of groundbreaking permutations of the outer human shell created with costumes and masks as well as photo-technical and artistic manipulation. While inventing, enhancing, obscuring, or altering identities, the images play with and often obliterate classical proportions and visual traditions. In doing so, they reveal further possibilities for what can be considered beautiful and fashionable". picture and text borrowed from Gestalten.com

https://shop.gestalten.com/index.php/catalog/product/view/id/3991

Graphic Design

This is a design for a flyer Dana Haim just made for the first of many 2011 summer parties in Tel-Aviv.

FAT Magazine - Copenhagen

Simon Rasmussen and Lærke Hooge Andersen collaborated on a Fat Magazine shot the other day, with Danish fashion photograph henrik bülow. We were to shoot the ‘Mad growing Hair Suit’ among others, in a spread showing the newest emerging talents on the danish fashion scene right now. The shoot will be featured in Danish Fat Magazine later on in the year.

Pictures kindly lend by Simon Rasmussen.

To read more visit:

http://www.fat-magazine.com/

http://simonrasmussen.blogspot.com/2011/03/hairy.html

AWSM.it - The Revolution Will Not Be televised

AWSM is a webzine about design, trends, music, fashion ect. They have made an post from the exhibition ’Talking Textiles’ in Milan this week. Were our own blogger Lærke's 'The Synthetic Kingdom' is featured!

Have a look at the post, and check out the rest of the cool Italien blog right here:

http://www.awsm.it/public/index.php/2011/04/14/milan-design-week-tessile/

Puff & Flock Shop Milan 2011

We are pleased to announce that Dana will be be among some wonderful exhibitors in this years Puff & Flock Shop in Milan Furniture Fair at Salone Del Mobile. She created a special collection of Pom Pom inspired products such as, Magnetic Pom Poms , Pom Pom Lei's, as well as, Machine Knit Scarves for this exhibition. You can see more of these products at www.danahaim.com

'Talking Textiles' by Lidewij Edelkoort at Solone Internazionale del Mobile

Lærke Hooge Andersen's graduation project 'The Synthetic kingdom' has been selected by Li Edelkoort to exhibit at the *talking Textile' exhibition in Milan from April 12th-17th 2011.

http://www.trendtablet.com/?p=4258

A Braided Beaded Balls Suit

This video has been shortlisted out of 23,000 international submissions in the top 125 for the YouTube/Play competition in collaboration with Google and The Guggenheim in NYC. The Jury consisted of Takashi Murakami, Stefan Sagmeister, Nancy Spector, Animal Collective and many more. See the shortlist at http://www.youtube.com/user/playbiennial

This video was made in collaboration between Dana Haim and Learke Hooge Andersen. We made this during our MA Textiles Futures course at Central Saint Martins in London.

The video was part of a biomimicry project where we were very much inspired by the glowing creatures of the deep sea as well as weird formations in the human body to inform new approaches in design. We wanted to create a kind of hybrid of the two using this costume that we made specifically for this video. We used several kinds of recycled materials to create the costume such as left over tights, ribbons, and beads. The dancer in the video is Supitchanga Vanasirikul.

Hello World!

Talk about hair textiles..so delicious