Appreception

Cats and dogs are human best companion in life, but have you wonder how well do you know your pets? What your pet likes the most? What are their emotions/moods? How the pets see the world? Your best companion is always there for you and they might be the ones who knows you better than yourselves. The main concept of having a mutual understanding between owners and their companion. So the “Fur” dress are designed so as to better articulate the idea of mutual understanding. Each output from the dress will be corresponding to each question. (In correspond to: What your pet likes the most and their emotions/moods) Cats and dogs have an inclining love for patting and stroking, this will be correspond with the use of stroke sensor.

(In correspond to: How the pets see the world) Cats and dogs have UV-transparent lenses which allows them to see in the dark but also causes them to seeing mainly surroundings in black and white. So in relation to that, the lights on the dress will be a complement to the missing of colours in cats and dogs life. Furthermore, the LED lights are organise into a shape of a cat eyes. And the LED lights of the pupil of the eye are blue and green which meant to resemblance the eye of cat or dog.  The functionality of the Apperception dress is to stress on the importance of mutual understanding between owner and pet.

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Fashion Sketch of the dress

Materials used : Plastic loop tags, Polyester fabric, felt, Tinsel, Arduino lilypad , Arduino Lilypad LEDs, Stroke sensor

MOODBOARD 2
Mood Board 1 [ Inspired by how cats and dogs see the world ]
MOODBOARD 3
Mood Board 2 [ Inspired by how cats and dogs see the world ]
MOODBOARD 4
Mood Board 3 [ Inspired by how cats and dogs see the world ]
 

Mood Board 6 [ Texture : Furs like texture ]
Mood Board 4 [ Texture : Furs like texture ]
Mood Board (Collection Inspiration): Fall/Winter collection
Mood Board 5 [ Collection Inspiration : Fall/Winter collection ]
Mood Board (Collection Inspiration): Fall/Winter collection
Mood Board 6 [ Collection Inspiration : Fall/Winter collection ]