Secondskin
human packaging Jackets
May 2018
Lisa Lai: Industrial Design, Critical Design, Pattern Making, Prototyping
Other gained experience: Art direction, Graphic design, Photography, Print design
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What if we looked at clothing the same way we looked at packaging? In the more conscious world we live in today, would we be more conscious of how and what our clothes are made of?
This project was my Bachelor thesis project for my Industrial Design Degree at Emily Carr. I looked at how clothing act as a form of human packaging, and what it would look like if we painted these parallels from eco-packaging principles onto outer garments.
As a result, I created a world where there might be a human packaging company that sells eco-human packaging and how they would present themselves through eco-materials, zero-waste construction, and easy disassembly for end of life.
Secondskin Final Catalogue: Here
Process
BACKGROUND
The fashion industry is a problems space close to my heart. My grandmother used to work at a small clothing factory in China in the 60s and my mother would tell me stories the hardships and ridiculous working conditions she would have to go through to provide for her family. My grandfather at the time sold woven baskets in the black market and always taught my brother and I that waste was one of the ultimate crimes as it is essentially stealing from the earth of itβs resources. Through this, I have always been drawn to the social, ethical and material issues the fashion industry that both steers me away yet also brings me back as a designer in this space. Thus again like Luune, I was redrawn to addressing the space of textiles and waste culture in our contemporary world from a critical design even speculative design perspective.
Research
Clothing as Human Packaging?
What are the similarity and differences among the function of garments to packaging, and how could this comparison be utilized to view clothing in a different perspective?
Commercial or Critical Design?
Design Research
User tester to see how they felt when they thought of their clothes as human packaging.
zero waste construction
The three jacket iterations are made from a zero-waste pattern construction. as 15% of textiles is wasted within the production stage.
Final project was a fake catalogue of what a human packaging project could look like.