Book reviews
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 knowledge area of a fashion designer: not only the body ergonomic, but also biomedical and electronic [...]
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 thread, soft buttons, LEDs, and other things specifically targeted towards wearable electronic prototyping.
The eBook centeres around [...]
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 to me is the project of the Interactive Sample Book (ISB) designed by Diffus with support [...]
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 content table of the book lists like ‘Get-the-Message Bag’, ‘Light-up Petal Purse’, ‘Headphone Hoodie’, ‘Lightning Bug [...]
New books about Wearable Electronic
While ordering my copy of Switch Craft: Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sewby Alison Lewis which started shipping two days ago I stumbled upon two other upcoming books from Diana Eng due to be launched in the first quarter of 2009.
The first one is TechStyle: Create Wired Wearables and Geeky Gear in cooperation with Natalie [...]
Fashioning Technology: A DIY Introduction to Smart Crafting
Technology and crafting is a fast growing field judging on the many workshops and books that have been or will be released soon, helping all the ’smart crafters’ to get started and inspired.
The latest addition to our wearable electronic library comes from Syuzi Pakchyan: Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting
Written for a broad [...]
Upcoming book: Switch Craft by Alison Lewis
ALISON LEWIS the producer and host of SWITCH, an online blog that showcases technology as modern, crafty, fun, and fashionable is working on a book called ‘Switch Craft – Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sew‘ due to be on sale on October 28, 2008.
Alison has worked as an electronic textile designer at DuPont and [...]
Book review: Fashionable Technology
It took some time to finally sit down to give you the view of talk2myShirt on the latest and greatest book about wearable electronic: Sabine Seymour’s ‘Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology’.
It’s a page turner and extensive resource for inspiration in the field of technology meets fashion – or the other [...]
Book preview: Fashionable Technology
Usually we do book reviews but today we are ahead of time and bring a book preview. Reading the description of Sabine Seymour’s upcoming book – ‘Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology’ I went straight ahead for a pre-order.
Sabine Seymour offers in her book an up-to-date look on the interplay between [...]
Intelligent Textiles and Clothing – book review
Integrating intelligent textiles into clothing is an exciting field as you can see by checking out our blog.
Over the holiday season I had some spare time to read a book titled: ‘Intelligent textiles and clothing’ edited by Dr Heikki Mattila, Professor of Textile and Clothing Technology at Tampere University of Technology, Finland.
This is one of [...]
