May 10, 2005

Smart Ink Bag

fashionvictims.jpg Fashion Victims explores the invisible world behind mobile communication.

Agnelli Davide, Buzzini Dario and Drori Tal have designed a collection of garments that react (respond and change) according to the surrounding mobile phone calls.

"We want to see what would happen if our clothes - everyday objects that we carry on our person - were able to display this presence".

The metaphor we have decided to use for visualizing mobile communication comes directly from nature: clothes, as a second skin, react to the environment and change in color. Here, as more and more phone calls are conducted in their surroundings, the clothes progressively and permanently change color .

[via information aesthetics via Eyebeam reblog]

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