Cutting as an Innovative Approach to Surface and Textile Design

Abstract

We live in an age where new technologies enable materials and techniques, hitherto unconventional for this field, to start being applied in the design of surfaces and textiles. One such technique is cutting. Used for the creation of works with high artistic value, the manual cutting of paper has been developed to the level of an autonomous art form: kirigami – the Japanese art of cutting paper. Inspired by the technique of kirigami, designers and artists today continue to create two- and three-dimensional surfaces and artworks through patterns of cuts in a wide variety of materials such as textiles, polymer foils, wood, metal and others. These cuts can be made by hand, or cut by machine, using technologies such as laser cutting. Novel technologies and materials open the way for an innovative expansion of the characteristics, functions and the aesthetic value of the textiles and surfaces created through these processes. The in-depth study and calculation of the geometry of such patterns of cuts also plays an important role in the scientific research of smart surfaces, as well as of surfaces which have the capability to morph from a two-dimensional structure into a three-dimensional one and vice versa. The current research has as its aim to survey how contemporary designers study and develop cutting techniques in unconventional ways, such as creating three-dimensional structures using minimal manipulation, engineering the properties of surfaces and finding alternative ways of constructing objects. The relation between structure, function and aesthetics and the technologies and materials used will be analysed to determine prevalent tendencies in the field.

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