flexibility renewable clothing by fernando brízio
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ex carceri ‘le nuove’, turin june 29 – october12 http://www.torinoworlddesigncapital.it
‘flexibility – design in a fast-changing society’ is one of the many events taking place in turin this year in conjunction with the city being named the ‘design world capital for 2008’. the show consists of nine projects by international designers installed at a former prison ex carceri ‘le nuove’.
by placing colored felt-tip pens in the pockets of the dress its appearance changes over time. within an hour – to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design for each occasion. the owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it.
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fernando brízio – portrait © designboom
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born in angola, 1968. he obtained his college degree in equipment design in 1996, at the fine arts faculty of lisbon where he is based. since 1999 he has been developing several product design projects, as well as setting design and exhibition works for details, protodesign, m glass, droog design, the choreographer rui horta, modalisboa, ccb, intramuros, fabrica, lux/atalaia, experimenta design, cor unum and gallery kreo, among others. he is professor and head of design at esad.cr (caldas da rainha, school of art and design) and visiting lecturer at ecal (lausanne). in 2005, he was a curator for the s*cool ibérica project. he has participated in several conferences and juries, and his work has been exhibited and published internationally.
— see the nine installations:
 renewable clothing by fernando brízio |  instant rooms by matali crasset |  liquid memory by ross lovegrove |
 chasen by patricia urquiola |  mirror-blind by bertjan pot |  flexible bench by giulio iacchetti |
 domestic sandbags by antenna design |  jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar |  my treasures trash by emiliana design studio |
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cool concept.. but for me the problem is calling this “renewable” which today really means eco friendly.. how many pens do you throw away per year dyeing your dress? It seems like he could have found a better solution than using plastic pens.
Yeah, renewable means “eco friendly” and the dress doesn’t seem super green!
this is beautiful.
i think you can take the ends off of these markers and fill them with more ink so you wouldn’t have to throw away the marker itself.
Boring stuff. This guy picked up old concepts (like the vase he made some years ago) and presented now again like if they were new.
Boring! Next please!
ever tried to wash felt tip ink out of a white fabric? it definitely doesn’t come out of the wash looking like the piece in the video. there’s no fixing of the dye so it’s going to look lovely when you wear it out in the rain! as will your legs with ink dripping down them in the street. could be a nice concept but very obviously designed by someone who knows absolutely nothing about textiles
I embedded the video in an opinion post in Trazas. I obviously quoted Design Boom as the source and copyright holder.
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Thanks for the great information.
i think they are absolutely beautiful.!!!!!!!
looks nice, but you are going to have a lot of extra trash from pens. why not design an refillable applicator to go with the dress? something like a turkey baster would do. suction on one end and a sponge at the other, then it would actually be “renewable.” as is this makes a lot more waste than a regular dress.
absolutely fantastic & magically beautiful.
What a wonderful idea! It seems to be fun!
Muy buenooo!! Debe ser divertido utilizar esos vestidos
you all complain too much, it’s not like millions of these are gonna sell. Just enjoy the concept.
it’s a nice concept, i would wear one of these, just one thing, doesnt the ink get on the body? what’s the use it it’s so messy?
If you would do a little bit of research about this author, you would see that his work is mostly conceptual. He’s a teacher in the product design masters degree (I’m sure this is poorly written), so these pieces he develops are always conceptual in nature. It’s a study about the consumer as a creator, so face it like it is. And FYI, this was made in partnership with Giotto, an italian manufacturer of water washable felt pens for kids, as well as the vases.