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The UVU Cold Race Jacket employs the most advanced performance wear construction technologies available to Man. It will serve as a prelude to UVU’s upcoming ultra marathon lines made for two other equally challenging environments- that of the desert and the jungle.
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Abe Burmeister explains how a punk-rock ethic helped him create a business building a new niche in a market he had no experience in. Abe just wanted a pair of pants he could both ride his bike and go to work in - and all his partner Tyler needed was a shirt that stayed fresh despite his pedal-powered commute. He describes how the duo paired intensive research in New York’s garment district with the connectivity of the web to create Outlier - a performance fashion business that only sells over the web.
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Hiroki Nakamura (Visvim) - Building from the Inside Out
(Source: hypebeast.com)
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“My interest in materials is like my interest in tools. What can be made with this? What can this do that other materials cannot? Materials with special properties are cool because they can open new possibilities in manufacturing, design, or even behavior. Additionally, they’re such an amazing cultural artifact. Where and how something gets made says so much about us as people, as a species, even. In a beautiful fabric, the simplest thing can be magic.”
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“Without ideas for applications, advanced materials just stagnate, with their potential left unrealized.
Tokyo Fiber ‘09 attempts to show ideas for the future of manufacturing, exhibiting new environmental membranes derived from artificial fibers in order to share them with the world at large.
The aim of this exhibition is to deliberately bring a broad sweep of creators and technology people into contact with attractive new artificial fibers, encouraging them to think of applications that make the benefits of the material visible. Through that approach.”
Meaning of SENSWARE by Kenya Hara - Exhibition Director
Tokyofiber.com/ | Design Museum Holon
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