Second Skin MOCA Taipei catalog, Taiwan 2007
 Twilight on display at MOCA Taipei
 ENTRY 2006 exhibition catalog
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art exhibition catalog
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Second Skin II
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Disciplines
Textiles & Materials
LED Lighting Design
Solar Power
Fashion & Technology
Conceptual Design
Prototyping
Exhibition
Exhibitions
ENTRY 2006
August 26 to December 3, 2006
Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art
March 10 to May 10, 2007
Taipei, Taiwan
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art
June 30, 2007 to August 26, 2007
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Curators
Ellen Lupton, Curator
Jon Cordova, Associate Curator
Exhibition Producer
Jon Cordova, Vitra Design Museum
Producer
Vitra Design Museum
Organizations
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128 USA
Vitra Design Museum
Charles-Eames-Str.1
D-79576 Weil am Rhein
Germany
About the Exhibition
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.
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TWILIGHT ILLUMINATING SOLAR BLANKET
50” x 50” (127cm x 127cm)
Navy cashmere blanket
with integrated Luminex LED fiber optic illuminating textile center and
6”x 6” PowerFilm ultra thin, flexible solar cell.
VICTOR CHU, Design, Hand Sew & Assembly
Adafruit Industries, Electronics Engineering
Special thanks to Camella Ehlke
Twilight in the Park for dreamy girl picnics. Photo collage, May 27, 2008
The Design
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.
Two original prototypes were created. The second prototype, "Midnight", is a cashmere and silk shawl with long illuminating fringes. The prototypes demonstrate high fashion, solar energy applications.
Related Links
Moroso at Second Skin
Moroso.it
Second Skin at Taipei MOCA
By David on Formosa
Taiwan-guide.org
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