Practical Fashion Tech: Wearable Technologies for Costuming, Cosplay, and Everyday
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Pull back the curtain on making fun and innovative costumes and accessories incorporating technologies like low-cost microprocessors, sensors and programmable LEDs.
Fashion tech can require skills in design, pattern-making, sewing, electronics, and maybe 3D printing. Besides the tech skills, making a good costume or accessory also requires knowledge of the intangibles of what makes a good costume. This bookis a collaboration between two technologists and a veteran teacher, costumer, and choreographer. Regardless of whether you are coming at this from the theater costuming, sewing, or electronics side, the authors will help you get started with the other skills you need.
More than just a book of projects (although it has those too), Practical Fashion Tech teaches why things are done a certain way to impart the authors’ collective wealth of experience. Whether you need a book for a wearable tech class or you just want to get started making fantastic costumes and wearables on your own, Practical Fashion Tech will get you there.
What you will learn:The fundamentals of both the sewing and the technology aspects of wearable tech for fashion
How to make a memorable costume that reacts to its wearer or environment
Ideas for using this book as a textbook
Who this is for:
Electronics enthusiasts, hipsters, costume designers, teachers, and students who want to learn how to make fashion or cosplay wearables. Cosplay fans wanting to incorporate sensors and more into their costumes.
Publisher : Apress; 1st ed. edition (September 21, 2016)
Language : English
Paperback : 290 pages
ISBN-10 : 1484216636
ISBN-13 : 978-1484216637
Item Weight : 9.82 pounds
Dimensions : 6.1 x 0.66 x 9.25 inches
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Laurie L. Jarvis –
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SciFi Seamstress –
Focused on skills and projects for costumers and cosplayers
A fashion tech book that is focused on skills and projects for costumers and cosplayers. It would make a good one stop resource for both beginning and more advanced sewers. If you only want to buy one book to work on your costumes and your wearable electronics, this would be an excellent choice, it has a lot of information and is comparable in price to similar books. This book is packed with a lot information, starting with the very basics of how to plan and sew costumes. It is almost a combination of sewing instruction, costumers’ handbook, and fashion tech book. There are a number of projects both using basic skills and progressing to more complex; including the Mondrian dress that is on the cover. I’ve read a lot of similar books with electronic projects and this one has new and interesting ones that I have not seen in other books or on the internet. The print and photos are not as fancy and glossy as those from other publishers, and the paper could be better quality. This publisher seems to have a number of related books on wearable tech, arduino projects, etc. that may also be interesting to fashion designers and costumers. I met the book authors at World Maker Faire in NYC (October 2, 2016), and got the book directly from them at the event.
Amazon Customer –
As A Huge Fan of Project Runway….
As a huge fan of Project Runway â and Halloween â Iâd recommend this book for anyone who wants to âmake it workâ for their own garments. Itâs a great jumping off point for creative fashion. Weâre already seeing technology in designer gowns on the red carpet. This book makes the process accessible for design students and DIY fashionistas to push boundaries. Can Arduino turn you into Valentino? Soft goods enhanced with hardware, what could be more innovative for todayâs fashion forward fans? My favorite designs in the book â The Kinematics Dresses â simply stunning 3D printed works of art. Inspired by innovation, yet practical enough to alleviate intimidation, a great how-to book.
Salomee Thanatos –
Good book . I used It for My Thesis a year ago.