Dutch designer Antoine Peters has developed a method for making textiles that seem to alter or transfer when considered from totally different angles.
With Lenticular Weave, Peters has discovered a approach to make textiles that incorporate two totally different designs. The one you see is dependent upon your viewing angle.
Similar to in lenticular printing, this method can be utilized to create playful juxtapositions and easy animations.
To point out among the prospects, Peters has created a big textile wall hanging incorporating a spread of picture transitions, together with a winking eye and an arrow that modifications path.
This textile was unveiled throughout the latest Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven.
“About 13 years in the past, I used to be struck by the magic of lenticular printing,” defined Peters, who relies in Amsterdam. “I really like the dynamics of motion, distinction, shock, and delay.”
“I imagined these powers in direct reference to the viewer, consumer, or wearer,” he instructed Dezeen, “and ever since I’ve dreamed about translating this right into a textile that modifications when considered from totally different angles.”
Lenticular pictures are dividing two or extra pictures into strips and splicing them collectively.
When considered by means of a lenticular lens – a three-dimensional floor made up of cylindrical lenses – the geometry will solely permit one picture to be seen at a time, relying on the angle.
To translate these processes into textiles, Peters teamed up with producer EE Exclusives to develop a 3D weave with the identical geometries as a lenticular lens.
As a jacquard specialist, EE Exclusives was in a position to assist Peters discover a approach to create the splicing of pictures by means of the weaving course of, moderately than by means of printing.
“It’s a advanced play with the parameters of the machines and compositions of the yarns, together with the artworks and the layering and positioning of the yarns within the weave,” defined the designer.
“I used to be conscious that a number of precision was wanted, which is why I sought the collaboration with EE Exclusives,” he mentioned.
“Even then, it took 18 months of trial and error, stretching the technical boundaries of the machines.”
Peters usually brings a component of enjoyable to his design tasks. He first appeared on Dezeen in 2012, after making a resort room coated in QR codes, linking guests to “pornography, pin-ups and different piquancies”.
He first began exploring the chances of lenticular design in 2013, when he created his Lenticular Gown.
Though his approach for making the costume was very primary, it acquired Peters interested by the potential purposes of lenticular imagery in inside design, merchandise and trend.
“Once I shut my eyes, I see this weave utilized to partitions in future house stations,” he reveals.
With Lenticular Weave, he has created the impact in a textile that’s thick and sturdy, which suggests it may feasibly be marketed to a spread of designers, producers and retailers.
The set up created for Dutch Design Week was designed to indicate all the chances of the approach, throughout color, sample, picture and textual content.
It takes the type of a cubist face – as Peters factors out, the cubist model was all about taking part in with views.
The designer hopes this piece can be a place to begin for future tasks and collaborations. He’s eager to see the Lenticular Weave utilized in alternative ways, to create totally different experiences.
“What I particularly like about my Lenticular Weave is that it triggers its observers to work together, to go away the static place, decentralise and begin strolling round,” he mentioned.
“It takes time and motion to see and expertise the overall,” he added. “And I imagine that when everyone slows down a bit, by being compelled to look, really feel or assume twice, the issues we do or say will include extra empathy and consciousness.”
Lenticular Weave was offered at Dutch Design Week 2021 as a part of Issues that Matter, which was exhibited within the Microlab Corridor alongside a “deposit chair” designed by Ineke Hans.
Dutch Design Week ran from 16 to 24 October 2021 at venues throughout Eindhoven. See Dezeen Occasions Information for an up-to-date listing of structure and design occasions going down around the globe.