Cornell Fashion Collective

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About

The Cornell Fashion Collective, formerly the Cornell Design League, is a student-run organization that provides members of the Cornell community with an outlet to express creativity in fashion and fashion management. Each spring, our organization presents a professional runway show featuring the talent of students who both design apparel and manage the operations of the show. Our organization gives students, both undergraduate and graduate, the opportunity to practice design, demonstrate their talents, and learn how to produce a large-scale fashion event.

Creator

President Megan Rodrigues
Vice President Nicole Fitzsimmons
Models and Designers Cameron Giles
Marketing Akilah Chandler
Events Gabrielle Ben-Yaish
Graphics Ellen Pyne
Secretary Dana Lee
Faculty Advisors Anita Racine & Van Dyk Lewis

Rules

The event gives undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to practice design and and learn how to produce a large-scale fashion show.

Comments

The students learn how to produce a fashionshow. This is a good way to learn about organization and working on a team. The experience could be usefull for anything you will achieve in your future carreer.

Links

The Cornell fashion show:
http://www.cornell.edu/video/cornell-fashion-collective-runway-show-2015

Cornel University:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/fsad/fashion/appareldesign.cfm

Cornell Fashion Collective:
http://www.cornellfashioncollective.com/

Shot of the 30th FashionShow

 

 

Crossing the water

About
Remy Jungerman is an artist who was raised in Surinam. With his work ‘crossing the water’ he is pointing out the cross over to the geometric form from the modernism to the African diaspora-perpective. These panels represent the fact that he is stepping of the  restrictions in form and colour of his inspiration ‘De Stijl’, he trades these for the influences of ‘winti’ rituals. He uses traditional fabrics, but the batik based textiles of the brand Vlisco. Vlisco is a the last connection for the titel ‘crossing the water’ it has relation to Indonesia and Africa as well.  “each fabric has a specific meaning in the winti rituals”. For him this is a symbol for the economic and trades between different cultures where he lives in. He wants to show that globalization is a thing that is happening for ages already. The titel refers to the pattern of cultures when you cross the water.

Creator
Remy Jungerman.

“Although I work from a culturally traditional premise, there are direct connections with De Stijl”.

Rules/Restrictions
– Expression of the winti ritual.
– The ritual colours in the work.
– Using of Vlisco.
– It has the mix between western and non-western culture.
– he uses traditional ‘non-western’ technics.

Comments
He mixxes ‘western’art with ‘non-western’ art, so he is questioning the question do we need to divid this still? He blends cultures, because he knows what it is to be in between those cultures. He makes this combinations timeless. And the beauty is that the ritual in this matters is making the art, besides this he really uses the traditions, the meaning of the winti in his work. I can identify with his work, that is why it attracts me a lot.

Hong Hao Things

ABOUT

Hong Hao starts with scanning objects and goes on to reconstruct the whole image using his PC. Though the chosen items (what he calls “My Things”) can be common object from our day-to-day life such as money, trash, chocolates, medicines, and things in a round shape, and there is hardly any specific meaning in each, the unparalleled enumeration of cumulated objects in his works brings a strong impact on us, and we can not help feeling the sense of awe. As is often the case, the assembled and repeatedly used objects in our everyday life tend to be catabolized when it comes to their functions and meanings, yet this is not the case for the works of Hong Hao. While money, chocolates, and books, all these bring happiness into our life, we all know that teetering over the edge leads us to facing misfortune in a pit on the way.

CREATOR

Hong Hao was born 1965 in Beijing and made his first education 1989, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing where he was studying print-making. Typical for the work of Hong Hao is that he’s collecting day-to-day life objects which are not really special for the normal user, and ask with his work what the function and meaning of these things are for us. He shows also how people deal with waste in big cities like Beijing where he also lives. In his work is the chaotic state in which he lives and also the outcome from the sensibility of the experience of the dramatic change in and around him.

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

the essence of Hong Hao’s work is basically the technique that he’s using (scanning) and the fact that he use the visual strategy of quantity to make is arranged pictures powerful. This small and for us not worthful  things became in this way  more importance and make the picture to one big thing witch is also a bit frightening if we think about how much waste we produce.

COMMENTS

Even this project is not untypical Opendesign Project it is still very interesting to see how Hang Hao put’s the views on a important problem of wasting stuff that we not even perceive in our big city lifes. Hao shows how interesting it is that we collect unworthiness thing without even knowing it in the way we waste them witch is a fact that with is part of our biology development.

NASA´s travel poster collection

ABOUT: In late December, 2014, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (fictional) Exoplanet Travel Bureau released these 1930s-style travel posters depicting three exoplanets as destinations – hypothetical, so far – for future travel.

CREATOR: NASA´s Exploration Program. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA.

RULES: The posters depict hypothetical scenarios on real planets discovered by NASA‘s Kepler telescope. Each of NASA’s poster designs highlights a feature of a planet that could draw visitors, including stronger gravity for extreme sports and double sunsets.

COMMENTS: I really like these 30´s look posters and I think it is interesting to imagine what life, or holiday, could be on those discovered planets.

LINKS: http://earthsky.org/space/nasas-way-cool-retro-posters-for-futuristic-space-travel

Rijksstudio

ABOUT

The Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands is digitalising their collection in high resolution for everyone to download and use in any way without having to ask permission. This is because the copyright of these works have been expired and they feel that everyone should have access to these art pieces.

 

CREATOR

The platform is created by the Rijksmuseum with Bankgiro Loterij and Cultuurloterij as sponsors. The platform is for open use and every day the Rijksstudio adds photographs. The collection of people making things grows as long as they are using the service.

 

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

There are no rules and restrictions. You do not even need to sign in to download the published photographs and no permission is needed to use it even for commercial use. The only thing that is notable is that some are not available for commercial use because the copyright is not completely expired.

 

COMMENTS

I am in love this idea. Art should be for everyone and even though the pictures are made by photographs, they don’t use the copyright which should then actually be on their pictures. They put a lot of effort into it and don’t ask for anything in return. I think this is a beautiful gesture towards open design and the people of the Netherlands. I would really like to use this platform in one of my designs one day and see what possibilities it holds.

 

LINKS

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/rijksstudio/

Fun Food Plates

 

ABOUT:
Melamine plates with images of fun scenes and characters made from healthy foods to encourage children to have a healthy attitude towards eating.

ARTIST:
Rachel Froud

RULES/RESTRICTIONS:
– Round plates
– Attractive to children
– Healthy foods

COMMENTS:
I really like the funny attitude of this collection. I would totally buy them for my child if I had one! It makes healthy food much more fun. Hope the kids won’t go play with their own food during dinner!

LINKS:
http://www.artsthread.com/portfolios/funfoodplates/

DIY Draisienne

ABOUT/CREATOR

Andres Bhend is a product design student in Switzerland who has before made Ikea hacks with the Frosta stool with Ikea style manuals included which got quite famous. Samuel N. Bernier is a full time worker le FabShop, a 3D printing shop which is based in Paris. They started to collaborate after the writer of a blog post (Ray) made the suggestion in his post.

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

The collections consists out of various 3D printed parts, the original stool and drawings to match the IKEA style to create a draisine. All the parts were made functional over aesthetical. The file is completely open sourced, the reason why it is in orange in the pictures is because this is the colour of le FabShop. The collection is extended with the addition of a Frosta stool DIY sled.

COMMENTS

I think I got sort of brainwashed by Ikea because I had this project on it last quarter which has immediately drawn me to Ikea hacking for this assignment. It is a huge movement of people that are finding ways of redesigning existing Ikea products to create a different use or improve upon them in specific situations. These designers came together and made some products for children which are very easy and cheap to make. The design is posted on the internet for everyone to use so all that has to be done is go to the Ikea, buy the parts and assemble it. I think it is quite a nice way to make easy products for people at home. The only thing is that Ikea actually doesn’t like people hacking their products but I think they should accept it a little bit more. I like this project because it has so much simplicity in it yet it is thought well through and it is made from the restrictions of having a specific set of materials available.

LINKS

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Draisienne-and-Sled-hack-of-IKEAs-frosta-sto/

http://www.thingiverse.com/LeFabShop/designs