Digital Materials Archives

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Overcoming The Bottlenecks In Digital Product Creation With Machine Learning-Assisted Material Digitisation

byThe Interline X Frontier
July 27, 2021
893 views

While digital product creation promises rapid turnarounds, and revolutionary ways to shorten product lifecycles, significant bottlenecks exist in the material digitisation process. Machine learning could offer new ways to automate and accelerate the creation of digital materials at scale.

11 minute read

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How Digital Product Creation Helped New Balance Prepare For The Pandemic, And Pull Ahead Afterwards

byThe Interline X Swatchbook
June 23, 2021
2.2K views

COVID turned digital materials & 3D assets into survival tools, but the Boston footwear giant could be a guiding light towards what's going to be possible with digital product creation post-pandemic.

6 minute read

33D - Technical

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

byGerber Technology, a Lectra company
June 7, 2021
1.8K 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.

8 minute read

MMaterial Innovation

Machine Learning: The Secret to Getting Started with Digital Materials

byThe Interline X Unity
April 7, 2021
1.9K 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.

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
1.3K 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.

6 minute read

TThe New Era Of Sustainability

Push Performance Without Pushing The Planet

byWayne Fan
October 7, 2020
1.2K views

Combined, digital materials and machine learning could offer a route to more sustainable research and development. Provided the playing field is kept even.

8 minute read

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Creating Digital Materials With Designers In Mind

byNicolas Paulhac
August 28, 2020
3.0K 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?

6 minute read

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Are Digital Materials Headed For Their Own Streaming Wars?

byWayne Fan
August 20, 2020
1.8K 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.

4 minute read

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

byBen Hanson
August 6, 2020
1.8K 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.

7 minute read

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

byThe Interline X Cotton Incorporated
August 3, 2020
2.5K 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.