Designing With Smart Textiles

If you want to understand, and be a part of, the creative revolution in materials design, then Designing with Smart Textiles is the complete toolkit you need to get started.

Beginning by introducing the terminology and key applications, the book goes on to examine the key design processes needed to develop interactive textile design concepts, with detailed projects and examples to help you apply these approaches in your own practice.

Case studies and interviews with innovative designers introduce you to different artistic and technological practices, and demonstrate how world-leading researchers are creating new technologies, yarns, fabrics, and applications. Practitioners share unique insights into their processes, and “Tech Tips” so you can build on their research in your own work.

Featured designers include:
Yemi Awosile, Joanna Berzowska, Lauren Bowker, Marina Castan, Cute Circuit, Felecia Davis, Debbie Davies, Delia Dumitrescu, Martha Glazzard, Ramyah Gowrishankar, Intelligent Textiles Ltd., Sara Keith, Ebru Kurbak and Irene Posch, Barbara Layne, Eef Lubbers, Anna Persson, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Rose Sinclair, Mike Starbuck, Lynn Tandler, Paola Tognazzi, Sarah Walker and Linda Worbin

How to use this book

1. What are smart textiles?
Smart or technical?; (i) Passive, reactive and interactive textiles; (ii) From smart garments to smart fabrics; (iii) The future – Smart fibre?; Feature interview: Tilak Dias; Contexts of use; (i) In the body; (ii) On the body; (iii) In the built environment; (iv) Textiles as skin: chemical, bacterial, nano; Feature interview: Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

2. The smart textile product: Design processes
Studio textile practice; (i) Case study: Sara Keith; User centred design; Interaction design; Feature interview: Anna Persson; Industrial processes; (i) Opportunities and challenges; (ii) Smart yarn production; (iii) Composite textiles; (vi) Non-woven fabrics; Case study: CUTE CIRCUIT

3. Design with smart textiles
Smart textile products, fabrics and yarns; Basic tool list; Skills: working with conductive yarns and fabrics; First sewn circuits; Sourcing active fabrics; (iv) Skills: using a multimeter; (v) Creating reliable continuity with conductive taffeta; The textile as a part of a system; Other components: electronics, haberdashery, and other fabrics; (vi) Feature interview: Joanna Berzowska; Switches and sliders; Input (sensors); Output (actuation); Levels of complexity: When do you need a microprocessor?; Working with microprocessors; Integrated practical project

4. Designing your own smart textile
Case study: THE UNSEEN; Printed circuits; (i) Case study: Linda Worbin; (ii) Sarah Kettley – open printed switches; (iii) Qie Ji - Bare Conductive painted circuits; (iv) Jo Hodge – thermo- and photo-chromic fashion; Knitted sensors and actuators; (v) Case study: Martha Glazzard; (vi) Anna Persson – using heat to change a knit structure; (vii) Amit Gupta - Galvanic Skin Response with knitted circuits; (viii) Ebru Kurbak & Irene Posch – knitted radio; (ix) Ramyah Gowrishankar – conductive yarns for knitting; Woven displays and components; (x) Case study: Barbara Layne; (xi) LynnTandler – weaving with metal; (xii) Anna Piper – working with 3rd gen smart fibres; (xiii) eCrafts Collective – card weaving; Feature Interview: Joanna Berzowska; Embroidered switches; (xiv) Tessa Acti – transmitter/receiver; (xv) Gowrishankar and Jussi Mikkonen – CAD embroidery with flexible substrate components; Pattern cutting and fabric manipulation; (xvi) Case study: Rose Sinclair; (xvii) Delia Dumitrescu – architectural approaches; (xviii) Felecia Davis and Microsoft - Textile Mirror and the tangible visualization of big data; Playfulness with other components; (xix) Case study: Paola Tognazzi Drake; (xx) Case study: Paola Tognazzi Drake; (xxi) Yemi Awosile – Acoustic vibrations; (xxii) Eef Lubbers – making thermochromic fibres; (xxiii) Marina Castán, Gerard Rubio & Miguel González – wearable fashion orchestra

5. Developing your practice
The T-shaped designer; Identifying values and framing your practice; (i) Personal practice timeline; Framing your projects and practice; Repertory grids of practice; Working across disciplines; Markets the audience and criteria for success; Selling your skillset; (i) Case study: Sarah Walker; Manufacturing implications; Design management and open innovation; (i) Case study: Debbie Davies; Regulations and certification; (i) Feature interview: Mike Starbuck

Appendix
Further reading and resources; Key academic conferences and journals; Trade fairs organisations and residencies; 'How to' resources; Suppliers; Bibliography; Acknowledgements and credits

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