Pa++ern: Embroidery by Twitter

Pa++ern is a project by Japanese duo Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi that uses a special “esoteric embroidery language” to create custom embroidered t-shirts using Twitter as the control interface. The program uses sets of one character commands that instruct a sewing machine to excecute specific designs. Users can input these command codes via the Twitter micro-blogging service (@_pt), and view their results on the Pa++ern website.

[via PSFK] Related: -- Text Messaging Embroidery -- Embroidered Conversations -- SMS messages become embroidered permalink (July 14th, 2009)

Text Messaging Embroidery

The artist took 19 text messages (from separate conversations) about love and romantic relationships and embroidered them, complete with message icons and battery and reception meters. View complete gallery here. [via Switched] Other related projects on Text Messaging Embroidery permalink (November 25th, 2008)

Embroidered Conversations

One minute telephone conversations embroidered into ‘home sweet home’ frames by artist Louisa Bufardeci. [via Hulger.org] 13 captured telephone conversations - all one minute long captures the sense of paranoia generated by the idea that anyone could be listening in, anytime. These particular thirteen conversations are sourced from a mixture of conversations history known to have been tapped, conversations from my private home, and conversations between abstract people. Related: -- SMS messages become embroidered - UK-based artist Kate Pemberton describes how she's been working on a project called SMS (short message samplers) these are embroidered picture messages used on mobile phones -- A mobile phone craft project - Designs have been created that can be accessed using your mobile phone, and as patterns to cross stitch. permalink (March 10th, 2007)

SMS messages become embroidered

UK-based artist Kate Pemberton describes how she's been working on a project called SMS (short message samplers) these are embroidered picture messages used on mobile phones. There will be 30 framed embroideries in total when completed, all hung together in a grid. 25 have been stitched to date. I have uploaded 10 finished ones into the catologue as a new series. Kate says: "Texting is quick and has [largely] replaced the act of sending a card -- Happy Birthday images for example. If something is stitched by hand by the message sender, there is a lot of emotion attached... someone has stitched feelings there, using up much time and patience. Texting is flippant... however we may be more likely to send texts to people who we may not send cards to! via boingboing.net. permalink (July 28th, 2004)

Of Fashion and Phones

Derercuny is an up-and-coming Italian label known for its intricate embroidery and pleating. It's also part of the sprawling Samsung group of 59 companies in far-flung industries ranging from textiles and chemicals to electronics and shipbuilding. In the Italian market, Samsung Electronics has leveraged Derercuny's cachet, tapping the tiny company to style advertising campaigns. The picture on the left ran in a spread in the Feb. 2007 issue of Italian Vogue. Right, another Italian Vogue advertising spread for Samsung Electronics featuring models in Derercuny clothing. Retailers and fashion editors say Derercuny, which had $3 million in sales last year, is one of the most exciting new brands to emerge from Italy in the past several years. Derercuny's Korean-born designer, Mina Lee creates garments that "are hyper-special, with a lot of detail," says Ken Downing, women's fashion director at Neiman Marcus, which has been carrying Ms. Lee's collection since 2006. [via The Wall Street Journal] permalink (February 24th, 2008)

Samsung, local food company wrangle over Internet domain name

Samsung Electronics, South Korea's best-known company and one of the world's leading manufacturers of mobile phones, is embroiled in a court battle with a local food supply chain over an Internet domain name, reports the AFP. "The small-time chain, whose identity was withheld from the public, has filed a lawsuit appealing against an earlier decision that the company should hand over the domain name -- "sens.co.kr" -- to Samsung, according to Moneytoday, an Internet news provider. Samsung in May 1996 registered "SENS" as a trademark for its computers and monitors." permalink (September 26th, 2007)

Stitching Together: texting message sewing circle

Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindström's, two artists living in Sweden and working at the Växjö Interactive Institute, have set up a text messaging sewing circle called Stitching Together, which combines text messaging and traditional embroidery. In Stitching Together, groups and random exhibition visitors can actually participate in creating the work: they can send text messages to a computer-controlled sewing machine, which embroiders them onto a piece of cloth. These embroidered items are then displayed. Most of us have text messages in our mobile phones that we do not want to throw away. They are connected to places, situations and people we love, hate, miss and in any case have a relation to. In stitching together we invite you and other text message-users to share text messages and transform them into tangible and physical text messages made out of thread and fabric. We want to make it possible for you to make these intimate, digital treasures longer lasting and stitch together different techniques, different speeds, people of different ages and different usage of communication. channels. Related projects: -- EMS craft project - EMS is a mobile phone craft project created for the New Forms Festival 2004 by Kate Pemberton. Designs have been created that can be accessed using your mobile phone, and as patterns to cross stitch. -- SMS messages become embroidered - UK-based artist Kate Pemberton describes how she's been working on a project called SMS (short message samplers) these are embroidered picture messages used on mobile phones. permalink (May 21st, 2007)

Quitting politics Timor-style - via SMS

When East Timor's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta resigned his government posts, he did so via a cellphone text message, according to IOL. "Ramos-Horta told a news briefing that he had sent an SMS to Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri announcing his intention to quit on Sunday, and received a reply in the same format from the premier. "I explained myself in a subsequent text message," he said. The country has been embroiled for months in a political crisis and text messaging has emerged as the fastest and most reliable means of communication. Thousands of protesters clamouring for Alkatiri's resignation have been mobilising themselves via SMS, and news of him stepping down on Monday spread rapidly through text messages." permalink (June 27th, 2006)

EMS craft project

EMS is a mobile phone craft project created for the New Forms Festival 2004 by Kate Pemberton. Designs have been created that can be accessed using your mobile phone, and as patterns to cross stitch. via Rhizome: "MS designs are also available as cross stitch patterns, together with full instructions of how to turn the designs into your own cross stitch embroidery. Packs are availble on the "buy EMS kit" page with all you need to make your own EMS embroidery including: material, instructions, thread, needles." Related article: -- SMS messages become embroidered - UK-based artist Kate Pemberton describes how she's been working on a project called SMS (short message samplers) these are embroidered picture messages used on mobile phones permalink (October 19th, 2004)