There was an interesting lecture about design and technology today. Ms Teresa showed us presentation and some cool videos about technology in fashion design. The fashion designer is named Hussein Chalayan and he created many types of clothes with unusual and distinctive materials instead of normal fabric. My research on him has let me know that he uses unconventional and strange materials like airplane-building material and envelope paper to design his unique outfits. His creative extremely out-of-the box techniques has led him to create blown-up skirts, armchair covers which transform into dresses, chairs into suitcases, a coffee table reveals itself to be a wooden skirt… One of his most famous outfits is called the ‘video dress’ which has 15000+ LEDs on the dress to make it glow and change colours.
So Ms Teresa told us that fashion is not the only industry where technology is widely implemented and it is an interesting subject to read about because I have always liked technological advancement in our society. It is amazing what the human mind can create especially in modern tech. Besides technology, as a graphic designer myself I looked up other forms of design or art that had elements of technology in it and I found this picture done by a famous Mexican artist called Diego Rivera. In between 1932-33, he completed 27 frescoes known as ‘Detroit Industry’ at the Detroit Institute of Art. Although as an artist he doesn’t really implement heavy elements of technology in all of his artwork, this piece of artwork was exceptionally outstanding because at during the 1930s he had a very futuristic sort of mentality to be able to paint something like that. Here’s his artwork:
So we were told that we’ll be going to Pavillion on a research trip for our next project – a presentation.
