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How, and why, material sourcing is going digital.

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MMaterial Innovation

Machine Learning: The Secret to Getting Started with Digital Materials

  • byThe Interline X Unity
  • April 7, 2021
  • 602 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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  • 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
  • 393 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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  • 6 minute read
TThe New Era Of Sustainability

Push Performance Without Pushing The Planet

  • byWayne Fan
  • October 7, 2020
  • 652 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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  • 8 minute read
DDigital Materials

Creating Digital Materials With Designers In Mind

  • byNicolas Paulhac
  • August 28, 2020
  • 1.5K 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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  • 6 minute read
DDigital Materials

Are Digital Materials Headed For Their Own Streaming Wars?

  • byWayne Fan
  • August 20, 2020
  • 1.0K 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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  • 4 minute read
DDigital Materials

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

  • byBen Hanson
  • August 6, 2020
  • 1.1K 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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DDigital Materials

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

  • byThe Interline X Cotton Incorporated
  • August 3, 2020
  • 1.7K 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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33D - Technical

Going 3D, Part 2: Draping Fabric Digitally

  • byMark Harrop
  • April 23, 2020
  • 2.6K 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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33D - Technical

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

  • byRenate Eder
  • April 9, 2020
  • 2.2K 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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DDigital Materials

Digital Material Platforms: Our Editorial Focus for August 2020

  • byThe Interline
  • February 25, 2020
  • 400 views
One of the last, most stubborn analogue links in the fashion value chain is material sourcing. Until relatively…

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