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Jewelry inspired by the architecture of global cities

2020-05-16T09:00:00-04:00

Italian-based Marco Zagaria has launched Teti, hyper-detailed micro "city-sculpture" modeled as a wearable ring. The pieaces are plates with precious metals with options in copper, silver, gold, and nickel. After the shape of the ring is composed using 3D-printing technology, it is then plated with the selected metal, and finally encased in resin. Rome, London, and New York are the three cities offered.

The design features significant icons from each city, including the Colosseum in Rome, the Empire State Building in New York City, and the Shard in London, among many others. Check out the company's kickstarter page here.

How to depict the rules of attraction, according to the PARADOR film

2014-12-11T18:07:00-05:00

PARADOR is a collaborative project by Paris-based architect David Tajchman and filmmaker Benjamin Seroussi that fuses each of their signature styles and specialties. Starring dancer Olivier Mathieu and model Katya Pushkina, the short film's theme touches on the "complex rules of attraction and repulsion that end up creating energy, shape evolution, and anti-gravity," as mentioned on Tajchman's website.

Seroussi's experience in fashion film and music videos is obvious in PARADOR, which uses strong angles and slow-paced panning techniques seen in high-end fashion ads on TV. Mathieu and Pushkina, in all their conventionally attractive physical features, are decoratively armored in tetrahedral structures as they dance and pose around each other like two birds engaged in a courtship display. The futuristic structures they wear — which Tajchman and the design team created — hint at Tajchman's work methods of using digital tools and handcrafted models.

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Vinn Patararin challenges the possibilities of textile architecture

2014-11-12T14:42:00-05:00

Vinn Patararin combines the craftsmanship, experience, and interests of multi-disciplinary designers Vinn Chokkhatiwat and Patararin Pongprast. Training separately at prestigious architecture and design schools in Thailand and France followed by working with different Parisian haute couturiers, Chokkhatiwat and Pongprast also incorporate cross-disciplinary theories from sociology, history, art, and culture in their design philosophy.

Vinn Patararin's garments don some seemingly common traits of architecture-meets-fashion pieces — like emphasis on material choice, utilitarian details, pared-down colors, etc. — but the designers add their trademark with their lattice-patterned textile.

Vinn Patararin wanted to create an architecturally structured textile pattern that can adapt to the functional needs and expression of the user. Whether the textile is worn on a human body, used as furniture accents, in art installations, or even applied as a building façade, the designers wanted to chall...

Wearable shelters for the hipster nomad

2013-08-26T19:47:00-04:00

It appears we are destined to be a generation of new-age nomads as a result of technology, constant career changes and unprecedented mobility. Is a constant search for how best to return to nature an inevitable side effect of modern life? [...] [Justin Gargasz's] designs are created not only to shelter the wearer physically but as a play on the need to escape psychologically from a world filled with distractions.

Justin Gargasz's Sans Shelter line of wearable shelters offers three distinct designs of impromptu-tent jackets, in sleek nylon and waxed canvas models. Using methods of folding and wrapping he picked up while traveling in Northern India, the rather fashionable coats can be unpacked into tents and secured against a tree, fence, bike rack, even the bike itself -- anything rigid and upright -- providing shelter within an otherwise claustrophobic or distracting environment.

It seems that the designs will still rely on tent spikes to retain their turgid structure, but it's a small inconvenience considering the garment's utility and intended scenarios. The focus is on temporary respite more than outdoor ruggedness -- like napping in a city park, or catching some shut eye at a music festival. For more extreme conditions, check out Veronika Scott's sleeping bag / coat hybrid, designed to withstand Detroit winters.