Fabricademy: Week 6: Computational Couture

Fabricademy: Week 6: Computational Couture

Our tutor this week was Aldo Sollazzo who is a computational expert, Head of IAAC Visiting Programmes  and director and coordinator of RESHAPE – a digital craft community and a platform for the development and implementation of innovative ideas from the world of digital design and fabrication. Computational Couture Disciplines as programming and electronics become highly interconnected, […]

Bio Dyes : Plant dyed yarns into products

Bio Dyes : Plant dyed yarns into products

Plant Dyes > Main post details here about the Fabricademy project assignment Bio dyes in detail > Sub post specifically focusing on the bio dyeing stages Sage and Rosemary dyed crochet pot   Fabricademy embroidered and lace carry-all pouch

MakeHuman: Background edits

MakeHuman: Background edits

MakeMake Human – Background edits Following on from my project of making a interlocking mannequin (see post here), I wanted to test a few more things out in MakeHuman. In doing so, I discovered that you can place a background into the program and create all sorts of cool and silly and outright impossible images. […]

Fabricademy Week 3: Circular open source fashion – Modular

Fabricademy Week 3: Circular open source fashion – Modular

This weeks subject of creating a modular pattern is something that I have always thought about using for waste textiles and making them into designs. I really enjoyed transforming the (pineapple) felt fabric, which I also chose for my final experiment, as well as incorporating both the positive and negative cut pattern into useable modular […]

Fabricademy: Week 2: Digital bodies

Fabricademy: Week 2: Digital bodies

One of the projects which immediately got be hooked on doing the FabTextile course was the fact that we would be building our own mannequins. Not only this but learning how to design them. I’ve really enjoyed catching up on this weeks project! Now I have the basic structure of a mannequin that I will […]

Remembering my mother Gillian Best Powell & Opening her Art Studio, 23-25th September 2016

Remembering my mother Gillian Best Powell & Opening her Art Studio, 23-25th September 2016

My family & I would warmly like to welcome you to visit the Art Studio of my mother, Gillian Best Powell. We are opening the art studio to celebrate her life across 23rd – 25th September, as part of the APT Open Studios weekend, for a chance to view and purchase her artwork and also see where […]