#microbio

some anki flashcards for all your microscopy identification needs :) this anki deck is actually linked on my blog if you’re studying for a microbiology/intro bio course and need to learn how images appear under different microscopes!

Designers are continuously experimenting with new materials to fashion future garments. This time, the role of antiquated loom is replaced by microscope and petri dish. Instead of being woven, textiles are now grown, whipped up, or engineered.

Ninela Ivanova, an MA Fashion student at Kingston University, is the designer that experiences with nature and biology, specifically with molds and fungi. Her petri dish experiments inspired garments that resembled decorative molted human skin.

She finds that mold is extraordinary, as it thrives when nothing else can grow, prospered in the aftermath or the Chernobyl disaster, even grows on the outside of spaceships. People and fungi are more similar than not, she observed. Both breathe in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide and require sustenance in order to survive.

To create her pieces, Ivanova grows the mold in petri dishes before transposing the patterns onto silicone-coated chiffons and silks. The provocative result is a bustier, gown, and vest that look and feel like a mottled second skin. Three of her garments look even incorporate growing mold enclosed within a pair of PVC shoulder pads.

Source:

http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/moldy-shoulders-pads-and-petri-dish-dresses

- levinachandra