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Fashion Interaction Dress by Gholamali Balouch |
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FS: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
GB: the basic idea comes from the vintage video games(John Conway's Game of Life) and computer graphics in the late 70's and early 80's and tries to use it as a digitally created pattern applied on textile.
FS: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
GB: it's all about bringing the new possibilities to make things in a different way.in specific making a wearable platform capable to interact and communicate with human .
FS: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
GB: this concept is capable to inspire fashion and high-tech consumer electronics industry to new solutions for intelligent materials and textiles.
FS: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
GB: entire process of design,research and prototyping took about 6 mouths.
FS: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
GB: this experimental project is considered as a part of bachelor study program in politecnico di milano.
FS: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?
GB: in any case of interest,the prototype and all intellectual rights are transferable.
FS: What made you design this particular type of work?
GB: personal interest.
FS: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?
GB: inspiration by John Conway and Vivienne westwood.
FS: Who is the target customer for his design?
GB: the art and design museums or R&D sectors in fashion and textile industries or show business or collection owner can be considered as customer.
FS: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
GB: this is wearable and flexible,and the open source digital device bring variety of functions and aspects.
FS: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
GB: "fashion interaction" may suite well the whole idea behind this concept.it means to have a dialog with what you wear trough a digital device.
FS: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?
GB: some traditional tools and Technics like pattern makings,swing Technics, and of course computer softwares like wiring program environmental.
FS: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
GB: combination of old and new makes it different: vintage computer graphics,modern electronic devices,retro fashion style,...
FS: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?
GB: this is a solo project.
FS: What is the role of technology in this particular design?
GB: the inspiration,design,prototyping all are based on technology.
FS: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?
GB: the research areas expend in different fields like:life style,art and culture and technological aspects in other hand, basically focused on 80's.
FS: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
GB: design the electronic devices ,large amount of wiring and swing job all done by hand.
FS: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?
GB: to promote and interduce this concept and probably develop it.
FS: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?
GB: the fact of being independent helped much to resolve the unexpected problems.
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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