Design for 2050: Clothing Printer by Joshua Harris
Somewhere in 2050, we can print our own clothes using Clothing Printer. This concept printer offers you effortlessly home-based clothing production, thus, eliminating the need for closets, washing machines and dryers, which is good due to the lack of space in crowded urban environment. Based on his research, the designer found that our clothing industry to be an extremely wasteful and inefficient use of our resources.
By Sadho Ram — 12 Mar 2013, 12:19 AM — Updated over 11 years ago
A Clothing Printer That Lets You Produce Your Own Outfits At Home
Industrial designer Joshua Harris has created a concept for a clothing printer that will allow consumers to manufacture their own clothes at home.
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Conceived to reduce shipping costs and waste, this innovative clothing printer lets you shop from an online marketplace of designs before printing out your choice directly for immediate wearing.
designtaxi.comDesigned for use in 2050, the clothing printer also reduces the need for storage and helps to maximize space in space-starved homes in the over-populated future.
designtaxi.comClothing is shipped to several different places before distributed to the consumers. Clothes only have short lifespan like maybe a few years, they’ll end up either being disposed or re-purposed.
Current Situation [Infographic]
As production and agriculture are being moved closer to cities, there is a massive upheaval in how we obtain the things we need to live. Thanks to new technology and innovative thinking, urban gardens, a connected global network and private replication technologies, consumers have more power to stay close to home. one major opportunity we identified was a revamp of the clothing industry. We found the clothing industry to be an extremely wasteful and inefficient use of our resources. Clothing is shipped to several different places before being distributed to the consumer. Also, its lifespan is only a few years before being either disposed of or re-purposed.
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Interface: Clothing Printer
The main challenge was to understand the workflow of how people would interact with the object. This was done through observation of people's morning and nighttime routines involving clothing.
As printing technologies become more mainstream, so to will buying objects online and instantly replicating them through in-home manufacturing techniques such as 3d printing or custom textile weaving.