Crash Dameskleding by Meng Ling Chung is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in IJzer in Mode-, Kleding- en Kledingstukontwerp Competition Category.

IJzerMode· 2023

Crash Dameskleding

by Meng Ling Chung

A' Design Award in IJzer Winner in Mode Category

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The Design

About Crash Dameskleding

De prints uit de Crash Collection gaan over de beeldvernietiging van alle bestanden na een computercrash. De herinneringen en werken van de ontwerper zijn allemaal omgezet in gekleurde blokken: elk rechthoekig met een uniek patroon. Meng Ling interpreteerde deze pixmaps in de structuur van het kledingstuk en projecteerde het tweedimensionale beeld op het driedimensionale menselijke lichaam. Het belangrijkste punt van het ontwerp is het duizelingwekkende kleurenschema en de onredelijke plaatsing van afbeeldingen. De essentie van glitch is om voortdurend te breken en te reorganiseren, en een perfecte balans te vinden.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in IJzer

Crash Dameskleding is winnaar van de A' Design Award in IJzer, een prestigieuze erkenning die wordt toegekend aan goede ontwerpen die voldoen aan de professionele en industriële eisen die worden verwacht van goed ontworpen creaties. Winnaars in IJzer tonen grote vaardigheid, hoge specialisatie, deskundig inzicht en het creatieve vermogen van hun makers. Crash Dameskleding wordt verwacht een hooggewaardeerde, bewonderde en gekoesterde creatie te zijn die praktisch en innovatief is. Dit ontwerp dat de A' Design Award in IJzer heeft gewonnen, integreert de beste praktijken uit de sector en heeft bekwame technische kenmerken die verbonden zijn met knowhow en talent. Crash Dameskleding wordt gerespecteerd om zijn grondigheid en is ontworpen om verbeteringen van de levenskwaliteit te bieden die helpen de wereld een betere plek te maken.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Could you live without your computer or smartphone? Once Meng Ling's computer crashed, it mercilessly devoured all her hard work. Her memories and works are all turned into colored blocks. Then she realized that the computer is her second brain, visualizing her imagination and storing her memories. Yet when the second brain died, she was desperate to explore all the past efforts left in her mind, but they all became blurred. Meng Ling was mourning for her past, ''remember'' they were supposed to be my duty, not my computer.
Dimensions & Packaging: Industry-standard size of S/M for women.
Tags: glitch art, clothing, chaotic,
Production Technology: After capturing thousands of images, Meng Ling redesigned the pixel images, disassembled and reassembled all the images, and printed them on silk and mesh fabrics. Since these are rectangular diagrams, the proportions of the human body have to be very carefully planned. The production process had to take into account the chromaticity and the harmony of the rectangle with the human body.
Design Challenge: Rectangular patterns often cause incongruent proportions in the configuration of the human body, and Meng Ling tried nearly a hundred sets of patterns in this regard. And the color is a very important part of glitch aesthetics. In addition to finding a balance point in discordant colors, it is also necessary to ensure that the printing quality cannot be distorted.
Research: The original intention of Meng Ling's work is about the glitch from the computer covers her memory. So in the beginning, she researched a series of glitch art and combined various glitch forms that her computer generated. Meng Ling thinks the main point of the view in this work is the dizzying color scheme and the unreasonable placement of images. The essence of glitch is to constantly break and reorganize, and find a perfect balance.
Inspiration: Designer, Meng Ling's computer was apparently not functioning anymore, and all the files were broken up into unintelligible graphics. She took screenshots of them one by one, trying to recognize the original picture from the blurry scene. There are obviously traces of my memory in each photo. So she started piecing together these enigmatic patterns like a jigsaw puzzle and putting them in prints to commemorate my old creations.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2020 in Beijing and finished in July 2020 in Taiwan.
Operation Flow: The prints in this collection are all about the image destruction of all my files after the computer crashed. Each rectangular pattern is unique. Meng Ling interprets these pixmaps into the structure of the garment, projecting the 2-dimensional image onto the 3-dimensional human body.
Image Credits: Image #1: Meng Ling Chung, Crash, 2020
Image #2: Meng Ling Chung, Crash, 2020
Image #3: Meng Ling Chung, Crash, 2020
Image #4: Meng Ling Chung, Crash, 2020
Image #5: Meng Ling Chung, Crash, 2020