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Second Skin MOCA Taipei catalog cover

Twilight on display at MOCA Taipei

ENTRY 2006 exhibition cover

Kaohsiung exhibition cover

Twilight Illuminating Solar Blanket
Solar powered cashmere blanket with LED illuminating fiber optic textile. Created in 2005 for the Second Skin II exhibition curated by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and produced by Vitra Design Museum.

Victor Chu Conceptual Design
2005 / 2006 / 2007

Concept
As an urban picnic blanket for the spring and early fall, Twilight provides warmth and charm through cashmere and solar energy. During the afternoon, the solar cell collects energy and stores the power in a battery within an internal pocket. As the day cools and turns to evening, the wool provides warmth while the low light sensor activates the LEDs, illuminating the fiber optic textile center. Irregularities in the fibers create sparkling and shimmering light effects providing dazzle to the end of a lovely day at the park.

Twilight in the Park Excellent for dreamy girls & picnics

Design Composition
Cashmere blanket with Luminex LED illuminating fiiber optic textile center
50” x 50” (127cm x 127cm) outer dimensions

PowerFilm printed, ultra thin solar cells
6”x 6” (15cm x 15cm)

Low light sensor switch
Lithium battery
Riri zipper

Second Skin II
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is organizing the exhibition Second Skin II, on view at the Entry 2006 Expo in Essen, Germany. This major design expo featured exhibitions curated by prominent international museums, including MoMA, Vitra Design Museum and Cooper-Hewitt.

Second Skin is a sequel to Cooper-Hewitt’s 2002 exhibition, Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design. The new exhibition will feature products and projects produced since 2002, as well as selected pieces from the original project.

Second Skin will present examples of products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that are expanding the limits of the outer surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, the exhibition will show how enhanced and simulated skins appear throughout the contemporary environment. Designers today continually manipulate the relationship between the inside and outside of objects, garments, and buildings, creating skins that both reveal and conceal, skins that have depth, complexity, and their own behaviors and identities.

Curator
Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Producer
Vitra Design Museum

Exhibition Coordinator
Jon Cordova, Vitra Design Museum

Second Skin II Exhibitions
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
June 30, 2007 to August 26, 2007
Kaohsiung, Taiwan

MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei
March 10, 2007 to May 13, 2007
Taipei, Taiwan

ENTRY 2006
August 25, 2006 to December 3, 2006
Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany