Made w Code project cover, Image by Google

Made W Code

A new type of little black dress.


PROMPT

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Comunication design, Circuit design and Circuit Prototype.

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For the 2015 New York Fall Fashion Week, designer Zac Posen collaborated with Google’s Made with Code project to create an animated dress using soft circuits. I was commissioned to create the prototype, plan the production process, and construct soft circuits to help guide and build the animated dress.

PROJECT DETAIL

Made W Code Runway

SEEN ON

ADWEEK
the Cut
WWD

PROCESS

Made W Code Testing When I started the project, I noticed many partners in this project fashion designers and sewers, web developers for animation, electrical engineers for the hardware and firmware. To make sure we are designing an animation base on the same pixel grid, I created a circuit design based on the dress pattern layout as a communication tool to bring all of the team on the same page.
process in making the project Later I printed this circuit design in true to life size to help me solder and constuct the LED strips to exact size for the animation.
Circuit prototype on a mannequin.
Circuit prototype on a mannequin.
Ceres full body side view
Close up view of Neopixel circuit hand sewn on the garment.
Coco Rocha wearing the animated black dress on the 2015 New York Fashion Week runway.
Coco Rocha wearing the animated black dress on the 2015 New York Fashion Week runway.

TEAM

Maddison Maxey Head of Project
Yuchen Zhang Visual design and Circuit Prototype
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