A Numbers Game is the title of my graduate collection. This collection takes a lifestyle and concept approach in the area of printed textiles for fashion. It is made with the belief that design should communicate an idea and engage with broader issues.
This is a unisex screen and digitally printed fabric collection that explores the contemporary norm of evaluating people and human worth that is facilitated by technology. Numbers are though to be one of the most accurate and objective ways to measure essentially anything and in China the government aims to launch its Social Credit System in 2020 that will value human activity as either positive or negative and distill this into a single number. I thought about how our lives are present online and how we use these rating systems on social media. I wanted to question this cloning system through print.
Using technology and code to highlight human measurement my work aims to disrupt and deconstruct this process through a glitch or technical fault. Inspired by old board games and counting frames, the collection aims to break down the basic shapes within them to provoke dissonance. Since everything online is flat the textiles reveal idiosyncratic tactility achieved through screen print processes such as flock and puff. The goal in this collection is to make people be more present in a moment and to provoke conversations through printed textiles.