Category: Book reviews

XS Labs – Seven years of design research and experimentation in electronic textiles and reactive garments

Joanna Berzowska was one of the first personalities I got to know at the begin of my wearable technology dedication. She is one of the pioneers in the wearable electronic space, creating insightful and highly innovative technologies and designs over [...]


Book preview: Functional Aesthetics by Sabine Seymour

Since the day Sabine Seymour published the wearable technology book ‘Fashionable Technology‘ I have been waiting for follow up on the success with another book. Two years of waiting are soon over as Amazon accepts pre-orders for her second book [...]


Book preview: Metamorphosis, the transformation of fashion

Riccardo over at Plug-and-Wear send me a book tip which I am more than glad to share: Metamorfosi / Metamorphosis by Elisabetta Cianfanelli and Stoffel Kuenen from the University of Florence, Department of Industrial and Fashion Design. The book promises [...]


IndossaME: design and wearable electronics

talk2myShirt fan Enrico send us a book tip, the first wearable electronic related book of 2010, with the title ‘IndossaME: design and the wearable electronics‘ by author Marita Canina. Design with wearable electronic technologies requires competences normally outside the usual [...]


Open Softwear – a book about fashionable prototyping

Wearable electronic designer and crafter just got a new, fabulous source of information and inspiration from Open Softwear and it’s authors Tony Olsson, David Gaetano, Jonas Odhner, Samson Wiklund. Open Softwear is a book about Arduino boards, conductive fabric, resistive [...]


Interactive Sample Book for e-textile designer

During my visit to the TechTextil I met Hanne-Louise Johannesen, co-founder of Diffus, a Denmark based design company with the mission of ‘diffusing traditional thinking as well as materials in order to create the unforeseen‘ in e-textile applications. Very interesting [...]


Fashion Geek book launch

The wait is over, Diana Eng invites to her book launch party with Haute Tech fashion show tomorrow, March 19, in NYC. Fashion Geek: Clothes Accessories Tech is shipping now, get your copy and indulge into the many projects the [...]