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We Will Become Silhouettes

A collection of fashion accessories that explores delicate ways of incorporating organic solar cells into textiles in which technology meets tradition. The pieces are charged while used outdoors during the day. When brought indoors in the evening they transform into a decorative ambient light display for the home, powered only by energy stored earlier.

  Electronic components like solar cells, resistors, and LEDs are integrated directly into the textile and wired together into working circuits using conductive thread. Organic prints and embroidery motifs recall endangered birds.

 
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Inspired by the song from The Postal Service
Sponsored by Distance Lab
Pieces available at the ONLINE BOUTIQUE
 
 

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