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From sustainable, organic natural materials to a new breed of high-performance, low-impact synthetics, a lot is happening in physical materials. And new platforms for sourcing them – and their digital counterparts – are now mature.

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DDigital Product Creation

From Render To Real: Delivering On The Promise Of Digital Design To On-Demand Production

  • byGerber Technology, a Lectra company
  • June 7, 2021
  • 9.1K views
Why the right 3D environment could be the key to unlocking the potential of end-to-end digital workflows, and to powering on-demand production.
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  • 9 minute read
DDigital Product Creation

Video Interview: Is Digital Dyeing Ready For Prime-Time?

  • byMark Harrop
  • April 14, 2021
  • 6.3K views
Replacing traditional dyeing methods with new digital solutions has the potential to transform an overlooked area of production. But how far can digital dyeing go, and what does a future ecosystem built around it look like?
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MMaterial Innovation

Machine Learning: The Secret to Getting Started with Digital Materials

  • byThe Interline X Unity
  • April 7, 2021
  • 6.3K views
As fashion moves further into digital product creation, digital materials are increasingly in the spotlight. But creating them has been a more complex, time-consuming process than most designers can afford. Machine learning could be about to change all that.
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MMaterial Innovation

Digitalising The Supply Chain – How Technology Is Becoming An Enabler For Change

  • byShannon Mercer
  • March 25, 2021
  • 6.2K views
True material transparency has two prerequisites: visibility at the fibre level, and the right technology to carry that visibility from one end of the value chain to the other, with integrity. The pieces are falling into place for both.
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  • 7 minute read
MMaterial Innovation

How Virtual Fabric Sourcing Is Opening Doors For Emerging Designers and Micro-Brands

  • byAasia D'Vaz-Sterling
  • March 11, 2021
  • 7.4K views
The digitisation of material sourcing is a matter of efficiency and business continuity for large enterprises. For micro-brands and emerging designers, it's a door to a whole new world.
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MMaterial Innovation

Vizoo xTex Advertorial; Bringing Your Digital Fabrics to Life

  • byThe Interline
  • February 9, 2021
  • 3.6K views
Martin Semsch, shares the story behind Vizoo GmbH – a 3D material digitization company he helped co-found in 2013.
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OOpinion

Six Trends In Fashion Tech for 2021

  • byThe Interline
  • January 6, 2021
  • 2.1K views
Dakota Murphey explores some possible trends in fashion technology for this year. Dakota has more than a decade of experience in business growth, working independently as a business consultant for a number of years.
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MMaterial Innovation

Push Performance Without Pushing The Planet

  • byWayne Fan
  • October 7, 2020
  • 3.9K views
Combined, digital materials and machine learning could offer a route to more sustainable research and development. Provided the playing field is kept even.
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MMaterial Innovation

Creating Digital Materials With Designers In Mind

  • byNicolas Paulhac
  • August 28, 2020
  • 11.7K views
Digital materials are essential to digital product creation, which means it's vital they're built with creative designers in mind. But what does that actually mean?
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MMaterial Innovation

Are Digital Materials Headed For Their Own Streaming Wars?

  • byWayne Fan
  • August 20, 2020
  • 4.8K views
As the popularity of digital materials explodes, competing commercial interests could get in the way of realising their true benefits. This article considers a different, more democratic approach to digitisation.
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MMaterial Innovation

Why Digital Materials Matter – And What’s Standing In Their Way

  • byBen Hanson
  • August 6, 2020
  • 6.6K views
Building a digital product creation workflow relies on digital materials that behave identically to their physical counterparts. The technologies are in place to make this happen, but as an industry we still need to slot the pieces together.
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MMaterial Innovation

Reborn Digital: Could Cotton Carve A Path For A New Generation Of Materials?

  • byThe Interline X Cotton Incorporated
  • August 3, 2020
  • 8.8K views
As the material most synonymous with fashion's history, cotton's future could herald a fundamental shift in the industry’s approach to digital materials.
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DDigital Product Creation

Going 3D, Part 2: Draping Fabric Digitally

  • byMark Harrop
  • April 23, 2020
  • 15.3K views
As fashion rushes headlong to embrace 3D, it is vital that virtual materials can be judged based on their look, "feel", and performance.
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DDigital Product Creation

Digitization: How 3D supports the fabric creation and selling process.

  • byRenate Eder
  • April 9, 2020
  • 13.3K views
In the current crisis, material digitisation is more important than ever. This article examines how - and why - digital fabrics are created.

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