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Fabric ceiling panels enhance Phoenix Convention Center
August 1st, 2010
[Eventscape Inc.] Toronto, Ontario, Canada When the architects designed the Phoenix Convention Center (Phoenix, Ariz.) expansion project, they wanted to capture the unique geographical features of Arizona with colors, textures and finishes using the warm hues of the Sonoran Desert and the cool tones of an Arizona desert sky. Eventscape Inc. engineered and fabricated 358 […]
Transparent tape transforms art installation
August 1st, 2010
International Design Week (DMY) in Berlin hosts hundreds of designers exhibiting new products or prototypes, and this June the DMY Award 2010 went to an Austro-Croatian design team with a “sticky” concept. For Use/Numen, a team sent to DMY as ambassadors promoting another event (Vienna Design Week), created Tape Installation #5 using 700 conventional rolls […]
Mesh canopy elevates Arizona museum
August 1st, 2010
The sun stays hot and bright at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Ariz., and the museum store’s floor-to-ceiling glazed windows needed a canopy with an aerodynamic look. W.S. Tyler, Mentor, Ohio, used the company’s DOKAWELL-MONO architectural wire mesh to provide an uplifting look, the illusion of transparency, light reflection and durability. The […]
Oil and vapors absorbed by nonwoven wipes
August 1st, 2010
There is no better testing ground for Texas Tech University’s Fibertect®, a cotton nonwoven wipe with an activated carbon core, than Grand Isle, La., where crude oil washing up on pristine white sand beaches is destroying tourism and making cleanup workers ill. Fibertect’s first field test showed that it successfully absorbed up to 15 times […]
Tagged books talk to librarians
August 1st, 2010
A library book spends much of its working life in the land of the lost—shelved in the wrong location, forgotten on a library table, overdue, on order, or just plain missing in action. Librarians now have a new book inventory and management system to fight back against scofflaws, slobs and absent-minded professors everywhere. Teijin Fibers […]
Top Austrian climbers and winning fibers
August 1st, 2010
Climbing a huge boulder hanging over a precipitous alpine drop requires rigorous training, faultless gear and brute courage—and a good t-shirt doesn’t hurt, either. The Lenzing Group, Lenzing, Austria, suited up the athletes of the Austrian Climbing Association with sportswear made of Tencel® fiber, a cellulose fiber made from wood. One of the top-ranked climbers […]
Textile implants improve bio tolerance
August 1st, 2010
Repair or replacement of human tissue damaged by illness or injury is fraught with complications, and the Hohenstein Institute, Boenningheim, Germany, is making progress on one of them—bio tolerance of textile implants. Textile implants, even those made of resorbable biopolymers such as polylactic acid, break down. The acidic waste products can inflame the wound or […]
Trash fashion on the runway
August 1st, 2010
Trash Fashion: “designing out waste” brought haute couture and recycled materials together in an exhibit at the U.K. Science Museum in London’s South Kensington area. The exhibit had a touch of C.L.A.S.S. (or Creativity, Lifestyle and Sustainability Synergy), an organization developing eco-innovations with a global network of members and three showrooms in Milan, London and […]
NY club opening features digitally printed entry curtain
August 1st, 2010
New nightclubs in New York City must make a big, bold statement in marketing and décor, and Color X, New York City, N.Y., brought creativity and large-format fabric printing services to the opening of one hot venue. A digitally printed entry curtain 35 feet wide and 20 feet tall greeted customers at the door. It […]
Shaping the future of PPE
August 1st, 2010
Nanotechnology, smart textiles and hybrid materials will increase the effectiveness and use of personal protective equipment (PPE), prompting more sales in this sector, according to a report from Textiles Intelligence, Wilmslow, U.K. According to the International Labour Organization, more than 2 million people die of work-related accidents and diseases each year, and for every dollar […]