Textile Design graduate students were assigned as primary investigators and formed a design team with collaborators in Industrial Design, Textile Engineering, Fashion Industry Management, and/or Business. The design brief solicited concepts which used unexpected materials to create a textile; engineer a fabric or wallcovering on a molecular or structural level to achieve some kind of functional property; or that can interact with or respond to the user. During this semester-long project, I contributed as a researcher and prototype designer to create an innovative recycled cork wall tile. My team's designs were chosen as "Best in Show" in the final presentations and will be brought to production by Lori Weitzner and her Design Team.

Published: September 02, 2014