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DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

: the basic idea comes from the vintage video games(John Conway's Game of Life) and computer graphics in the late 70's and early 80's and tries to use it as a digitally created pattern applied on textile.

DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

: it's all about bringing the new possibilities to make things in a different way.in specific making a wearable platform capable to interact and communicate with human .

DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?

: this concept is capable to inspire fashion and high-tech consumer electronics industry to new solutions for intelligent materials and textiles.

DI: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?

: entire process of design,research and prototyping took about 6 mouths.

DI: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?

: this experimental project is considered as a part of bachelor study program in politecnico di milano.

DI: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?

: in any case of interest,the prototype and all intellectual rights are transferable.

DI: What made you design this particular type of work?

: personal interest.

DI: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?

: inspiration by John Conway and Vivienne westwood.

DI: Who is the target customer for his design?

: the art and design museums or R&D sectors in fashion and textile industries or show business or collection owner can be considered as customer.

DI: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?

: this is wearable and flexible,and the open source digital device bring variety of functions and aspects.

DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?

: "fashion interaction" may suite well the whole idea behind this concept.it means to have a dialog with what you wear trough a digital device.

DI: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?

: some traditional tools and Technics like pattern makings,swing Technics, and of course computer softwares like wiring program environmental.

DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?

: combination of old and new makes it different: vintage computer graphics,modern electronic devices,retro fashion style,...

DI: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?

: this is a solo project.

DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?

: the inspiration,design,prototyping all are based on technology.

DI: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?

: the research areas expend in different fields like:life style,art and culture and technological aspects in other hand, basically focused on 80's.

DI: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?

: design the electronic devices ,large amount of wiring and swing job all done by hand.

DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?

: to promote and interduce this concept and probably develop it.

DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?

: the fact of being independent helped much to resolve the unexpected problems.