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Diffus featured at the Chicago Museum of Science

Chicago, november 13th. the Museum of Science and Industry invites to Fashion Forward, a fund raising evening celebrating innovation and the future of design. Blending science and fashion, the event will feature a one-night-only installation of cutting-edge wearable technology curated from around the world. One of these wearable pieces is our Climare Dress All proceeds benefit the MSI Annual Fund supporting the Museum’s exhibits and science education programs. Wearable Technology Designers...

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New video presenting Light.Touch.Matters

A new video is made that introduces the EU-funded project Light.Touch.Matters, in which designers and material researchers have joined forces to develop a completely new generation of smart materials that can sense touch and respond with luminescence. The base technologies are novel piezo plastics and flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Being thin, flexible and formable, these ‘light touch materials’ promise to revolutionize product design by integrating luminescence and touch in such...

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New book revealing the design process of spacEmotion

Textiles, innovations et matières actives is the latest book by Florence Bost and Guillermo Crosetto. The book focuses on pioneering design projects involving ‘active textiles’. It reveals some of the main challenges occurring when designing within uncharted territories as it is often the case when working with technologic textiles. Diffus is very flattered to be featured in this enlightening book and is pleased that the authors have aknowledged the programatic richness of SpacEmotion (formally...

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Garments of Paradise

Diffus Design is part of this beautiful book by Susan E. Ryan published by the MIT Press and we are very honored to be on the frontage. The book is a significant contribution to the history, thoughts and theories on wearable technology. Christiane Paul, adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art is acclaiming Ryans latest book: “Garments of Paradise gives an impressive overview of wearable technology as an evolving set of ideas within a range of historical and social...

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‘Smart Flexibility’ in Barcelona

Diffus is participating in the exhibition «Smart Flexibility» from 25 June – 16 November The exhibition is at FAD (Edifici Disseny Hub Barcelona) / Pl. de les Glòries, 37–38 and is organized by Materfad It is an exhibition that uncovers structures and materials capable of developing sensitivity and adapting their shape to the surroundings. The exhibition brings together projects from all over the world that allow us to imagine the functionalities that can be provided by intelligent, smart structures...

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Eclipse Solar Bag on Hardwired 2.0

Our Solar Bag is featured on the newest episode of Hardwired 2.0 an influential online channel that is part of AOL (America Online). The host of the show iJustine (A.K.A Justine Ezarik) is a one-woman new media phenomenon: Techie, Gamer, Vlogger, and Digital Influencer. She is one of the top personalities on YouTube amassing over 3 million subscribers across her channels, more than 1.5 million Twitter followers and has garnered more than 440 million views on her vides. In the same month Justine...

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New video starring our Interactive Sample Book

Sample Book by Diffus Design This Sample Book is a collection of interactive textiles that demonstrate aesthetically and interactive functionalities from various projects made by Diffus Design. Each page tells a specific story on its own hand and each page has a connection to the line of products made since 2008. By bringing together the product line in this Sample Book we aim to stimulate the senses and to inspire designers, architects and others to design with new and smart materials. The focus...

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SpaceEmotion at Moving Materials Virtual

Diffus Design have been participating in the touring exhibition Moving Materials and now there is a Virtual version online! SpacEmotion was selected among the 100 participating materials of Moving Materials to be visualised in 3D within the new exhibition ‘Moving Materials Virtual’! You can visit the new website, database and exhibition via: www.movingmaterials.eu. Direct link:  SpacEmotion from Diffus Design. Besides the virtual exhibition SpaceEmotion will also be added to the Material Sense...

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Lunchtime Talk at “Watershed”, Bristol (UK)

Molly Price, UK based associate partner at Diffus Design will be guest speaker at  “Watershed“. She will introduce our approach and Design philosophy through our latest EU collaborative research project: CREATIF, Digital creative tools for digital printing of smart fabrics. The CREATIF research consortium are developing collaborative software tools and a smart fabric printer that will be used to design and print electronic inks onto textiles. Designers will be able to print fabrics with interactive...

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Kent State Museum presents our work in a new catalogue

A beautiful catalogue is now available for download! The Kent State Univeristy Museum is exhibiting our Solar Bag “Eclipse“, until August 31th at the Expo “Shifting Paradigm” (shiftingparadigmsksu.com/exhibition/technology). The Exhibition also shows items made by Studio Roosegaarde, Zaha Hadid, Alexandre Mc Queen, Valerie lamontagne, Studio Koya, Cute Circuit, nervous system and more… From Margarita Benitez and Noël Palomo-Lovinski, the curators: “The innovative subject of the exhibition...

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