Spring Show Day 1

It's that time of year when ITP showcases works from this year's Spring semester.

Future of Monstar Lab

Well Youn Ji and I just finished up finals last week and have been quite busy with other classes. I have been especially busy and have yet to edit the last show with our professor, Tom Igoe. I will be working on these shows in May. May 8th and 9th is the NYU's Interactive Telecommunication Program's Spring Show where we will be presenting our three final articles of clothing (one-piece dress and two remixed t-shirts).

So after talking with Tom Igoe in our last show (soon be uploaded this May), we talked about what was the core of our project and that was to inspire other DIY online users to think about materials that are often considered trash and make something. So after talking with Youn Ji and proving that this design challenge can offer successful outcomes, we wanted to create a dedicated site for DIYers to post videos, images and audio to share with the community.

We understand that DIYers are also range different skill levels so Youn Ji and I wnt to archive video tutorials to just start newcomers and offer others to add to the archives with other skills that Youn Ji and I dont have. I will also be making tutorials on video production and sharing my experiences with others.

We hope that we have proven that 'trash' is not actually trash but materials that still have worth. We also want everyone to share their creative works with others in hope to inspire others. if you have any questions or comments please email Youn Ji and me at monstarlab@gmail.com.

Poster Designs

I have designed two posters for the ITP Spring 2007 show. Joo Youn and Christin, both graduating ITP 2nd years helped out modeling for our sustainable practice final. Here is the one-piece dress that Youn Ji made.

Youn Ji's Sketches

I had quick Fashion illustrations for laying out our actual result. Fashion illustration is like a preview to allow you to get the air of the design before you see the real clothes eventually. Designer can usually specify to not only their customers, but also themselves the most of the information of their design through this process. So Fashion illustration has to be able to convey the information of the garment, and details in various drawing styles. Plus, it highly tends to be art piece itself, though it functions as blueprint. Since those reason, it's a little shame to post this rough sketch. I had, however, great moment to going backward to my old background and recalling every steps of Fashion design while I made this.
Actually, it's almost considered as a independent field taken apart from its mother part which is Fashion design, and I was very much into this field as well.
So, please take advantage of me, if you have any kinds of questions about more specific process of Fashion illustration.

Patternmaker Part II

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Patternmaker Part I

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I'd like to give all the audiences a little excuse of me, Youn Ji, being in a little calm air during this 'pattern maker' session as you might noticed. You know when you're too sick to even eat and sleep. I was just like that during we through this session quite awhile. =(
It's a little weird to watch, but I hope you could have fruitful information and inspiration from this session. ;)

Where's the Show?

Hey folks, We hit a slight problem along the way. Our lovely fashion designer, Youn Ji got sick after Spring Break, so we had to postpone our weekly video. Last week, Youn Ji and I prepared the pattern for our one piece outfit. Youn Ji finished taking apart a curtain donated and finished cutting out the pattern for the one piece dress. It was alot of work then I expected. I am editing the video now so hopefully this week we have a new video. If you have any questions or comments please email us at monstarlab@gmail.com.

Spring Break!

Youn Ji and I are on Spring Break, but that does not mean we put our project on pause. Youn Ji is currently working on design sketches of the outfit she wants to create. So drawings should be showing up shortly. I finally have time to work on a short title sequence of our project. If you can't wait till the next installment of Monstar Lab, you can view the title sequence here. Enjoy.

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Back from Brooklyn

Youn Ji and I ventured to Brooklyn to meet up with Giana and her friend Justine Cooper to received a bundle of clothes and other materials for this project. Special thanks to the ITP student/alumni community for their contributions of materials.

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Special thanks goes to the ITP student/alumni community who contributed to this project. Next week will Youn Ji will prepare concepts/designs.

2 cents

Now, we have quite amount of material, thanks to people donating, so I can start with hand on stuff.
Just to remind, let me describe briefly what I'm going to do here, before going to get started.
First step for this design challenge is analysing , based on the material, I'm going to research about practical usage of certain fabric I have. Then, I'm going to study about this season's trend.

Here's some resources I'm looking around.
style and trend study
Chloe

Gathering Materials

We made alot of progress over this past week. Youn Ji and I built a donation box for the ITP Lounge. Students have already donated clothing. But the biggest contribution was through Giana's friend Justine Cooper and Jen Cooke. Before I get ahead of myself, I would like to mention alittle bit about Giana Gonzalez. Giana is an ITP alumni who worked on the thesis about Hacking Conture. She worked on cracking the design code of high fashion. Her documentation has been an incredible inspiration for our project.

Anyways, we'd like to thank Giana, Justine, and Jen for their help and donated materials for this project. I thought gathering fabric/clothing would be the most difficult hurdle. We are very lucky.

We would also like to thank some ITPers who also donated clothing: Kenny Kim, Liz Gallo, Nancy Garcia, Angela Pablo and whoever else donated. Thanks.

Hello World.

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Youn Ji introduces herself and the objectives of this fashion design project.

Welcome to MonstarLab

Hello folks,
I'm Monstar(Youn). I consider myself as a Fashion designer, Visual Artist, and Interaction Designer.
Not familiar with none of them? no problem. I don't know what that truely means either. But I do know what we'll going to here.
Me and Rob are going to have very exciting adventure for 6 weeks. This is going to be very fun and worthy journey,, so I want you guys fasten your belt. Argh~!