Category Archives: design

We Can Weave You A Donor Organ

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Seth Winner

I recently did a talk at TEDx Nashville about how textiles can be used to save and improve lives. Check it out!

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Spiders Under the Influence

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Seth Winner

There’s been a lot of talk lately about spider silk. Shawls made from spider silk. Genetically modified goats that produce spider silk milk. Its super  strong stuff and incredibly interesting for the future of high performance textiles. Great stuff, but … Continue reading →

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Medina Haram Piazza

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Seth Winner

In the city of Medina, the lunar cycles have been slowly advancing the time of the pilgrimage to Al-Masjid al-Nabawi from autumn to summer. In anticipation of that change, this stunning umbrella system was crafted to protect the pilgrims from the … Continue reading →

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Magnetic Curtain

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Seth Winner

This magnetic curtain captured my imagination today. The geometric structure with a grid of magnets enables you to place, form and bunch up the curtain as you see fit. Functional object meets origami meets amazingly fun toy. From Designer Florian … Continue reading →

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Oslo Opera House Curtains

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Seth Winner

To be honest, my appreciation of Opera is limited to Looney Tunes parodies and Fitzcarraldo‘s obsession with bringing Enrico Caruso to Peru. I make my annual Valentines day trip to the Opera, but never really have been a super huge … Continue reading →

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Noiz Architects: Honeycomb!

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Seth Winner

I want to play with this honeycomb furniture/art/textile/construction by Noiz Architects. This was designed and constructed for the lobby of Le Méridien Taipei in Taiwan. It is the corporate mandate of Le Méridien to attract the ‘creative guest’ and this … Continue reading →

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Sayed Alavi: Flying Carpet

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Seth Winner

Sayed Alavi’s Flying Carpet installation at the Sacramento Airport combines many things that excite me: Mapping, Textiles and a good play on words. I also imagine that it elicits a certain sense of vertigo in the right mindset. More here: … Continue reading →

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Textile Book Club: Reference Materials

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Seth Winner

I love a well organized reference book that is industry specific. I can page through Electrical and Plumbing manuals with fascination and pleasure the way i can read Atlases and Travel guides cover to cover. I recently spent hours paging … Continue reading →

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Textile Book Club: Matilda McQuaid

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Seth Winner

Sometimes books change the way you think about your craft. I thought I’d start highlighting some books and exhibition catalogs that reset the way I thought about the potentiality of textiles, or re-opened doors I hadn’t considered for some time. … Continue reading →

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Textile Concrete Formwork

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Seth Winner

Concrete between fabric; you’re probably familiar with it if you’ve done any tile work in the last 20 years. Similar to the way drywall is plaster made stable between 2 sheets of paper, concrete board is given shape and stabilized … Continue reading →

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