Research Projects

"Mind the Gap" is concerned with developing a new approach to the aesthetic and function of the universal hospital gown.

Portfolio project to develop new fashion products which integrate the craft skills of fashion making with new technologies.

This book presents designer and company profiles to analyse the diverse ways that design thinking can influence consumers and industry.

Working with the digital stylus Melanie Bowles exploits the versatility of the vector program Adobe Illustrator to build up flowing forms.

'Material Attachment' builds on the previous research ‘Digital Craft’ which endeavours to recreate a ‘Future Antique’.

A series of large jacquard woven pieces based on Sir Aaron Klug's research

Investigating the design and production of conductive woven fabrics, which can be used in conjunction with electronic components.

Nobel Textiles involves a journey into the interface between science and design, a dialogue between researchers.

Feasibility study to take a biomechanical approach to design of high-heeled shoes, utilising structural optimisation of materials.

An 18 month project, funded by the AHRC/EPSRC Design for 21st Century, to develop novel textile structures using laser sintered polymers.

Exhibition curation, showing work of 21 UK fashion designers which became the most visited exhibition at the Crafts Council.

Iintends to explore fashion textile recycling using new textile technologies to create innovative exhibition and production pieces.

Collaboration between LCF and The Engineering Centre Cambridge University with a portfolio of 3 sub projects.

Geesin is an Associate of the Institute of Nanotechnology and is currently interpreting nano images for communication.

How may fashion be ‘designed’ and ‘produced’ for the technically demanding context of digital and ‘real time’ environments?

Funded by Nesta 2006-09: Working with Computer Graphic (CG) animation tooling, in particular exploring ‘character’ and ‘identity’

This book covers everything students and practitioners of textile design will need to learn about designing and printing digitally.

This collaborative project was carried out by the Fashion Science Hub as a way of encapsulating an integrated range of the groups research.

eCHO is a collaborative project with Queensland University of Technology, incorporating digital textile design into contemporary womenswear

An AHRC award to examine the relationship between analogue and digital colour using new colour software, digital printing and hand painting.

Migration explores the role of design in crisis management and how design and designers can play a part in assisting organisations.

First monograph on Rozanne Hawksley (b. 1931), a formidable artist who has broken down barriers through her body of mixed-media work.

The Designer's Vision offered a study of the influence of fashion on Knoll Textiles upholstery fabrics.

LIGHT CLOTH is a practice based research project which explores interactions between hand woven textiles and projected, manipulated light.

Seeks to explore relationships between skin and cloth including: mimesis, representation and metaphor

A Second Life island created from digital images of designers' individual works in the physical world

Altered States Research focuses on the exploration of the aesthetic and commercial viability of the application of laser cutting.

Collaborative investigation of the design, production and consumption of Scottish Turkey red textiles.

Design and market training with visiting European designers who were invited to work directly with women textile producers.

A radical vision of a city that metabolizes its resources and waste to supply its inhabitants with all the nourishment they need and more.

Together with Nobel prize-scientist John E. Walker, to design, research and fabricate biomimetic textile architecture.