3 - Design to reduce Chemical Impacts

3rd strategy focuses on using the appropriate process and material selections for any product to minimize environment impact. It attempts to cut down on harmful chemical processes for example devore, chemical dyes etc. It include seek natural dyed, raw material, using organic, and non-chemical decorative procedures materials for create effects to replace material and processes know to be harmful such as laser cutting.

Atelier Rwanda: natural did in Rwanda

Natural dye in Rwanda by atelier Rwanda is a research based project that explore the full cycle of natural dying in contemporary textile production in Rwanda. At this time, Rwanda's local textile market is base on imported fabrics. They are known as 'african fabrics' are mostly designed outside Africa. The propose of this project is explore design possibilities in filed of textile while using local product each as fabrics and natural dyes pigment and the skills to support the identity of there local culture.

In Rwanda, there is no tradition of textile dying although the method does exist in the region's basketry crafts. In this project was followed by implementation, where the craft-man designed a series of shoes and scarves. The scarves made from natural dyed pigment with plant fibers and basketry technique. For created a local textile with a highly textile expression, which can be easily produced with available materials and methods.

Reference

David, Maya Ben,. (2011) Atelier Rwanda: natural did in Rwanda. Available from: <http://www.designboom.com/design/atelier-rwanda-natural-dye-in-rwanda/> [Accessed on: 24 December 2014] 

MILCH Upcycles Trousers, Shirts into Menswear-Inspired Eco-Fashion

Milch has always liked to borrow clothes from boys. There is one way to always get the menswear-inspired to womens'. The designer named MILCH, is dutch designer who steals, borrow, and pick an idea and design from the lads. They used refashioning secondhand men's garment such as men's trousers and shirts to create, adapt, design into gender-bending womenswear. Foe instant, Milch picked a boy white t-shirt to created a long dress (Tencel men's shirts into dresses, skirts, blouses, and hats with a play-around a new design).

" We pay attention to ecological and socio-cultural aspects in the production chain as a whole," says Cloed Priscilla Baumgartner, MILCH's designer and founder. "The raw material [men's suits and shirts which have been laid aside] comes fromVienna and is processed in responsible factories."

This is an amazing garment!!!! I am very appreciate in avant guard design. In the present, fashion and textiles industries in the 65percent of clothes they throw away go strange to a land fill. Which is a waste way and destroy environment as well. As a designer we can do for save and reused a product for global. We should rethinking again in design or product when we need to remade it again. This company has very great idea for use a second hand or old shit for redesign to use in other gender. That is means they can provide the product cross over use only one gender. Moreover, They uses leftover old cloths to make a new garment that is not only visually appealing but environmentally friendly as well.

Reference

Chua, Jasmin Malik,. (2010) MILCH Upcycles Trousers, Shirts into Menswear-Inspired Eco-Fashion. Available from: <http://www.ecouterre.com/milch-upcycles-trousers-shirts-into-menswear-inspired-eco-fashion/> [Accessed: 22 December 2014]

The Cabbage Chair

 

We cannot reject that needless waste and heaps of scarps fabric are part of the equation in textile's and fashion malfunctioning process in industry. Many designers designed amazing product that related to cutting edge fashion and eye-catching furniture designs. On the other hand, this process will come with a huge cost in term of useless element.

The Cabbage Chair design by Japanese designers, Nendo. He determines this trend by using waste paper from the pleated fabric industry and turning in to an organic shape. This furniture textile waste chair was designed for the exhibition, the XXIst Century Man Exhibition, curated by Issey Miyake, in Tokyo.

As Nendo (n.d.) has described, the Cabbage Chair fits (our) active, optimistic, and forward-moving ’21st century selves,’ the kind of people who, to borrow a concept Miyake expressed during a meeting with us, ‘don’t just wear clothes, but shed their skin'.

Amazingly, this Cabbage chair was made from used product in the textile industry. From a huge of paper from industry that usually abandon and unwanted product. This is clever solution with waste things by recycle to a renewal for textile and furniture industry.

In my opinion, there many have unwanted products from there production not only a piece of paper from pleated process but also included environment production around us. This is one of first step that creative new design for recycle useless product as a new. In my project, I used  heat transfer technique by use transfer dyed paper on to fabric, which this produced in mass amounts during the process of making print pattern. There product are unused and waiting for throe it away. In the same way, I would like to use some paper to create some lamp cover in origami design. This is a good way for use unwanted thing to newly.




Refernces

Dezeen Magazine,. (2008) Cabbage Chair By Nendo. [Internet]. Available from:<http://www.dezeen.com/2008/03/06/cabbage-chair-by-nendo/> [Acessed: 1 November 2014]

Nendo,. (2008) Cabbage Chair. [Internet]. Available from: <http://www.nendo.jp/en/works/cabbage-chair-2/> [Accessed: 1 November 2014]

 

Colour project: Good Vibration

'We are able to hear a single tone (that is, without special devices) but we almost never see colour unconnected and unrelated to other colours. Colours present themselves in continuous flux, constantly related to changing neighbors and changing conditions'

The interaction of Colour - Joseph Albers

In this project as a textile designer , I should to know the important of colours in design textiles. How colours are important in our life... Colours are the first sign when I are looking at an object. Colours  around us can communicate to our mood and design. It is influence your mood. Mood can influence design and productive. Productive and design can made emotional respond to it. 

For example, red represent passion, love, and angry. Green represent nature, serenity, birth, and eco.

As a textile designer colours are important in design. We can follow colour trend forecast for company. Or you can create own color palette to show vision. Colours can be connect in every tone and shade. They can related to each other that depend on design.

References

Turnstylevogue (2013). Why is colour an impoetant part of your life?. Turestylevogue 18 July [Internet Blog]. Available from: <http://www.turnstylevogue.com/2013/07/why-is-color-an-important-part-of-your-life/> [Accessed 25 October 2014].