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Ready to take your craft projects to the next level? This introductory DIY book demonstrates how to blend traditional sewing and assembly techniques with new materials and electronics to create accessories, housewares, and toys that light up, make sounds, or do even more. Author Syuzi Pakhchyan explains how to assemble simple circuits using conductive thread, solder joints for snaps, and switches for buttons. With the sewing machine as a viable substitute for the soldering iron, you can learn to craft a new generation of objects that are interactive, quirky, and fashion-conscious.
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Title:
Fashioning Technology
By:
Syuzi Pakhchyan
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media / Make
Formats:
  • Print
  • Ebook
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
June 2008
Ebook Release:
June 2009
Pages:
240
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-51437-2
| ISBN 10:
0-596-51437-9
Ebook ISBN:
978-0-596-55784-3
| ISBN 10:
0-596-55784-1
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About the Author
  1. Syuzi Pakhchyan

    Syuzi Pakhchyan is an Art Director, robotics instructor, writer, blogger and a seasoned tinkerer working and residing in Los Angeles, CA. Her work explores the intersection of culture and technology through the research, investigation and design of technological systems and interactions for a range of cultural contexts.

    Definitely not camera-shy, Syuzi has made two guest appearance on Craft Lab, the DIY Network's new, hip crafting DIY Television series. Her television debut aired on January 1, 2007 and will be followed by the another scheduled for the Fall of 2007. For the launch of Craft magazine, Syuzi designed and helped create an environmental installation at the 2006 Maker Faire. At the Makers Faire, her work was featured as a "Special Exhibition" where she taught workshops on how to create the Wearable Light Bracelet and sew electronics.

    Syuzi's projects have been published in numerous publications and books, including Shojo-Beat, a manga publication, Craft magazine, and in the Crafter Culture Handbook authored by Amy Spencer.

    On weekends, she teaches a robotics class to children between the ages of 9-14 at Art Center College of Design. She also occasionally holds workshops in Los Angeles on crafting electronics. Monthly, she writes articles for Shojo-Beat, covering topics that range from fashion, technology and the latest must-have gadgets. And nightly, she researches and blogs about interactive, tech toys on her blog we-love-technology.com. She received her BFA from UC Berkeley in Literature and her MFA in Media Design from the Art Center College of Design. Her MFA thesis titled "SparkLab" was exhibited at Eyebeam, an Art and Technology gallery in New York, as wellas the Fashion Future Event in Pisa, 2006 Maker Faire and 2006 Emerging Technologies Conference. SparkLab is a novel platform that creates a space for the cultural production of technologically crafted artefacts.

    Her designs explore and encourage ludic activities that celebrate the quirky and speculative and reflect personal experiences and cultural narratives. Syuzi has the unique ability to make the complex simple, translate learning into entertainment, and use technology as a tool to inspire creativity.

    View Syuzi Pakhchyan's full profile page.

  • Book cover of Fashioning Technology