Moodboard
A moodboard is literally an atmosphere board: a composition made of images, text, objects and samplings. Each moodboard is based on a specific theme with the intent of evoking or designing a particular style or concept, or showing an idea.
In this blog, me and my Creative Assistant (a rabbit made of calico…) we collect notes dedicated to design: from fashion design to the evolution of pattern for textile printing, from sustainable fabrics to creative recycling and attention to more critical and conscious consumption.
Ethical fashion vs label
Fashion details often make difference. Colours, prints, a particolaur style. But what do we know about a garment label? Does it make you able to figure out the production chain hidden behind a probable global product? Who, where and how has been manufactured the item we are going to buy? How many phases have been …
Creative recycling, Project 1: hair scrunchie
Fitting after fitting, we finally have finished tailoring our final prototype model with chosen fabrics. What now? What do we do with scraps and leftover? Throw them away? Not if we want to survive the sacred ire of your Creative Assistant… The quick project that follows, also suitable for sewing beginners, is useful to recycling …
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Ready-to-future: the sustainable lightness of textiles
Sustainable design: sustainable means bearable, tolerable. But what do you mean by design? Design is an evolutionary process based on the generation of ideas, aimed at creating a product. Research and development activities are crucial in this process, where function, aesthetic quality and market demands require a more than careful negotiation work. Design should therefore …
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