Knits, woven, all weaving
Making fabric, embedding patterns
Worked with touch designer as a portal to connect things
Sounds, vibration to track sounds and make instruments
Garments you can track and make sounds from
What is your creative process?
Keep a journal and sketchbook, inspired by life and reflecting, draw every night
Keep a list of songs, food, inspiration
Smell, touch, making work about those things
Thinking about presence, how a street can change one day over a next
Recording sensory experience
How do you collect inspiration?
Take sound bites and plug into touch designer
Pictures on my phone, touch designer and processing
Put data into different snippets of code
Throw it all in, no organization, see connections
Map out your creative journey
1) Pre-creation - 6 months, ongoing process, generate 5-6 ideas, greater topic, make a deadline for project
2) Creation - 1.5 months on making, technical portion, 2-3 months refining
3) Post-creation - 2 months, sharing with playground aspect on website, backlog of things, sharing on IG and Tumblr (wants the live feed, work to stand on its own, work exists in its own world)
Likes the idea of world building, chaotic design space to fit your own needs
Does a lot of moodboards, milanote and are.na
Want a space for WIP projects, physical and digital
-> know how people think, see their sketchbook, see their creative process
How do you organize your moodboards?
Milanote can click in endlessly - hair, fashion inspo
Draw out silhouettes then click into the image and what I want things to look like
Sticky notes
Will blend analog with digital — drawing on a digital pad
SOOT - looks super interesting
Favorite design tools?
Notion
Analog planner - write down to remember
Blender animation site - incorporate sketches into the work, animating those drawing, 3d objects
Touchdesigner
Coding charts/data viz lately
Digital body scanning tool
Custom scanning device at work to scan body and get a Blender avatar, make jeans from that
When you draw, the process is important, skipping that will result in more mistakes
Design tools you are opinionated about?
AdamCAD - thinks premise is interesting, won’t work with designers because that’s not how production works
In construction, need one screw but doesn’t think it works for custom parts
Vizcom - likes the premise, application/industry needs little details like offset, higher quality CAD, good in certain applications but customizing is hard, not to the level of production
Needs specificity in the toggles, need to be keyed in
Either be great at typing commands
What were your work / production experiences like?
Work at unspun
Custom brand with 3d weaving
Software that 3d scans and make custom, making fashion more sustainable
Program woven structures, new machine that cuts out all waste
Yard R&D
What fiber decomposes over time
Eckhaus latta - Small team, creative freedom
Knitter it’s fun but didn’t want to be in fashion, seasonal pace is fast, Whitney collection at that time
More technical mindset
Common challenges across your experiences?
Enjoys innovation and new ways of doing things
Not applicable in manufacturing - costs
Can’t always do work that is interesting
Works with yarn mills for testing, dry work
Focused on making fabric entering the field
Lots of soft skills - communicating with vendor, personal relationships, XFN collaboration, building up infrastructure
What feedback tool do you use?
Lattice, rippling but prefers 1:1s
Personal creative challenges?
Creativity grows with community, cultivating friends and developing that is hard
Not immediately accessible, limited time/bandwidth, takes time to build momentum
Latest inspirations?
The Substance (color, grossness) - soundscape
Smell of temperatures (summer)
Balance hot and cold in life through clothes, regulation
Most surreal project?
Mixing sounds, layers of sound clips of rain (hometown, brother’s birthday, in my car)
Putting drawings into the project
Working on a paper to embed custom sound into textiles, modular touchpoint
Integrate a circuit into a woven textile
When are you most inspired?
2am, night owl, drink tea, jazz beats lofi
What are your reative habits?
Cooking, fashion
Lean into things I enjoy, feeds other parts of my life
Live it and the practice happens
How do you hope to grow as a creative?
Grow my creative community in the Bay
Do more meaningful work and cool projects
Contribute to Asian American activism, understand how that impacts art movements