DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
: Always search for new creations without fear, searching for experiments with yarns to avoid boring textiles and contribute to the industry for something fresh.
DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
: design and enginery are not fought when it comes to technique, visual and functional
DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
: search for new yarn suppilers and develop smart textiles and textiles with innovation (all aspects)
DI: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
: I pursuit an impulse of creation and an idea after drinking a coffee
DI: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?
: Is made by anotehr company which commercializes it, but I also commercialize this fabric.
DI: What made you design this particular type of work?
: Looking for strange and unique fabrics. Everything strated when I saw weird effects on fabrics by sewing.
DI: Who is the target customer for his design?
: decoration market
DI: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
: I never see something like this before, neither other experienced people on textile industry
DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
: It came in my research when I was seeking for textures. I thought about the sky clouds on wintern which hace a sheepy form. So I called it nube, which means cloud in spanish.
DI: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?
: yarns, electronic looms, textile CAD software
DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
: It laevs the furnace without any other tricky thing. It is woven on a 1.40 m loom. When you get it down from the loom it measures .70 cms.
DI: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?
: I worked with a textile engineer, which helped me with the yarn suppplier to get the yarn I thought might worked for this development.
DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?
: It is all about technology. This fabric uses electronic jacquards looms which wor at 380 strokes per minute. This fabric can just be made by industrial machines.
DI: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?
: Yes. The research was on the weave techniques to apply, the mixture of yarns in order to get the function and aesthetic I pursuit.
DI: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
: supplier yarns, weaving production, yarns tension and breaking, resitence and abrasion
DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?
: Because I already submitted on last year another innovation, a textile braille that is made in these eletronic looms and peoplke with sight problems can read by touhcing. So I thought why not apply this new project?
DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?
: I learnt that there are no impossibles if you really want as a designer. the process is complicated but the result is amazing. I discover that old techniques can be applied in innovation. It just depends how you make good use of techonolgy and enginery.
DI: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?
: I really think that I made a breakthrough with this textile and I am sure I will keep doing experiments with new technologic yarns.