Fabricademy Week 4: Bio dyes & Bio plastics
This class focused on researching materials and different naturally sourced dyes which are alternatives to the current synthetic shop-bought ones. Our Gklobal tutor this week was Cecilia Raspanti. We were able to explore a wide range; from natural dyes using found plants or powdered natural pigments and bacteria, to making bioplastics from animal and plant […]
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
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 […]
Website Launch – gillianbestpowell.com
Yesterday, to celebrate the life of my mother Gillian Best Powell, I launched her updated website on what would have been her 62nd birthday. It has been just over a year since her sudden passing and I wanted to create a positive and colourful way to share her memory. www.gillianbestpowell.com I have documented, photographed and uploaded […]
In3dustry & Reshape.io Wearable Technology Awards Barcelona 2017
When I received an invite to In3dustry from my fellow Makerversity memeber Paul Sohi (me now being an alumni via Architecture for Humanity UK), all my textile-spidey senses said YES PLEASE! Or, claro que si. Paul works for AutoDesk, the “software company who makes software for people who make things”. He was one of the speakers […]
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 […]
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