Fashion Products

Through a process of research, we were inspired to make something that generates an interaction between music and light. First, we had the concept of music from the ipod jackets made by a Korean brand, On&On. However, these jackets just simply generate an interaction between the soft panels and the music played in the ipod.

Indeed, we aimed for a product that uses LED as a light source in our interaction. By looking in the interactive fashion products of Lumalive from Philips, we decided to emphasize on the display of the LED, in order to show a characteristic for the wearer.

Since we have decided where to emphasize on, we started looking for a possible interaction. We did some technical research on different sensors and how they work, and decided to use a tilt sensor, so that an interaction will be created by converting music to movement(rythm) to light. Then, our member came up with the idea of making a wearable object for people who dance in clubs, which is a trendy activity in our society.
Considering sketch one is a small project, we took time and materials into our consideration when we were thinking of what kind of wearables we were doing. We decided to make something small, but any accessories would possibly will not work since people wear as less as possible when they are dancing. Therefore, we thought of making a hat, that our member see many people with a hat in clubs.We looked at many fashion website, trying to figure out what is the latest popular styles of hats.

However, most of the results we got were designed for female, while we wanted to make a unisex design that either men or women can wear and feel the interaction of our design. In fact, many of the hats in popular fashion we found are made up by having a creatively shaped design of accessory as a rather small portion on a normal simple hat as the base.

Therefore, we used our innovation and decided to design a shape of couple of furs on a hat that we bought. Since furs metaphorically represents wings, we aimed to design for the wearer to be able to “dance like a bird, express yourself with freedom”.

Here is our final production. Since we want to show the circuit, we did not cover the threads, buttons and wires. We have total 6 LEDs on the circuit. When the wearer is not dancing, LEDs flash slowly one by one in two rows, resembling the silent sign ( . . . ) in an abstract manner. LEDs also flash according to the rythm of dance, hence give attractive characteristic to the wearer.