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THE T-SHIRT ISSUE A Digital T-Shirt Project

By Mashallah Design & Linda Kostowski

Three people are portrayed digitally by scanning their bodies.

The output of this scan is a 3d file,

which resolution is defiend by the amount of polygons, similiar to pixels in a bitmap graphic.

Linked with their biographical memories a digital twin of the body is thus created,

which expands and personifies the garment in a formal-poetic way.

The 3d data is turned into 2d sewing patterns by the use of the unfolding function

which is a common tool in industrial design process to make paper models with,

the single fabric pieces and the inner interface which defines the edges are cut out by the help of a laser cutter.

Making a clothes pattern in this way changes the aesthetics of the garment fundamentally,

 because in contrary to ordinary pattern construction methods unfolding

does not matter about orientations like center front or the shape of a armhole,

which frees the designers imagination in a way that feels fresh and liberate.

As fabric we used sweatshirt jersey as a reference to the common cliche that Berlin is the city

which fashionable output lies in making and painting on t-shirts.

Devon Aoki