Mix-and-match compatibility in asymmetric system markets

This paper shows that the private incentive for mix-and-match compatibility in system markets diverges from the social planner's incentive if competing suppliers are asymmetric in production cost or product quality. There can be too much or too little compatibility when the market is served by fully integrated system suppliers. Also, the market outcome involves socially too much incompatibility in the form of exclusive technological alliances when the market is composed of independent component suppliers. These results contrast with the standard one obtained in the symmetric setup and shed new light on public policy towards compatibility, technological alliances, and bundling practices in system markets

Euclidean Sunrise

The purpose of this design is twofold. First, the designer wanted to create a woven fabric surface inspired by the floral pattern created when eight tangentially connected circles are symmetrically intersected. Second, the designer wanted to create an engineered digital textile print with a hand weaving technique. Several other designs have been created by the designer using hand weaving techniques previously, but this is the first time that the designer developed engineered garment patterns with a digitally textile pattern designed from a software rendered pre-visualization

Archimedean Flare

The purpose of this design was to create a contemporary garment inspired by the colors of nature that blends hand crafted weaving techniques with digital pattern making technology. Using both hand weaving and digital textile print technology, an optical illusion is formed from the expressed juxtaposition of gradient colors and the resulting patterns arising from the woven spiraling concentric curved strips. This design is unique and original using both engineered digital textile printing and hand weaving techniques to weave curved semi-circular strips of decreasing widths to create a distinctive spiral radial woven pattern. The quilted jacket showcasing the original textile pattern also adds a one of a kind look. This collaborative design project was able to integrate technology and hand craft techniques that was inspired by the radial geometric growth patterns and colors found in nature creating a contemporary garment that can be worn in a versatile ways

Vitreous Fractures

The purpose of this design was to create a silk organza fabric surface with opposing color gradients that captured the changing color densities of sunlight passing through a translucent liquid media. The gradual color changes of a sunset refracted through changing densities of liquid, from blue, red to orange were the inspiration for this design. The textile surface design was an optical illusion of depth and volume created as light passes through the parallel gradation of three contrasting semi-translucent color gradients of digitally printed silk organza that overlap in an interweaving pattern

Tri-axis

The purpose of this design was to create digitally printed woven textile fabric strips by exploring triaxial weaving combined with sustainable design practice, upcycling

Engaging fashion design students with evolving technology; digital printing

Junior level fashion design students were challenged to develop patterns that were to be printed directly onto fabric with a digital textile printer. This project idea was developed for students to learn how to engineer fabric designs on pattern pieces; it also encouraged them to think about sustainable design processes through the use of a digital textile printer

Azure Striations

The main purpose of this design was to develop a sustainable design through the use of re- purposed post-consumer materials while emphasizing the curve of the human body. Six pairs of recycled denim jeans were used in this design to explore an innovative way to use post-consumer recycled clothing

Anahata Pulse

The purpose of this design was to create digitally textile printed woven fabric strips by exploring curved lines and color gradients that visually represent the Sanskrit concept of the 4th Chakra, Anahata. Anahata is 4th of 7 Chakras in our bodies that is located in the center of our chest and serves as a bridge between our body, mind, emotions and spirit and is the source of love. This design is unique and original using both engineered digital textile printing and hand weaving techniques. Furthermore, the designers were challenged to weave curved semi-circular strips with straight strips to create a distinctive radiating woven pattern. This collaborative design project was able to integrate technology and hand craft techniques creating a sophisticated wearable art piece that was inspired by the 4th Chakra, Anahata, a swirling wheel of energy that is thought by some to be the source of love