1. State of the art, project management and documentation¶
⊹ ࣪ ˖Motivation.𖥔 ݁ ˖¶
I wanted to join the Fabric Academy to broaden my horizons and explore what design, technology, and experimentation can offer me, as well as what I can contribute to it. I'm excited about everything I'll learn and also about seeing my classmates projects. I enjoy seeing others visions and different perspectives on a topic.
Inspo𓍯𓂃¶
I´m not quite sure what to expect about this journey yet, or the knowledge i will acquire, but i do have some concepts i´m inspired by and would like to explore further.
Bio yarn¶
Bio yarn, or "bio-based yarn," is a type of fiber made from renewable, biological sources rather than traditional fossil fuels like petroleum. This category includes a wide range of materials, from natural fibers that have always been bio-based (like cotton, wool, and hemp) to new, innovative synthetic fibers created from things like corn starch, castor oil, seaweed, or even recycled post-consumer plastic.
The main goal of using bio yarn is to reduce the textile industry's environmental impact by offering a more sustainable alternative.
kombucha & Mycelium¶
The experimentation with SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast) and Mycelium it´s so interesting to me. Fungus are such an important species, they´re awsome and noble. Just a whole world to explore :) .
- Mycelium is the root network of fungi, an incredibly strong and versatile structure. It can be grown on waste substrates to create materials used in: construction, packaging, textiles.
- SCOBY, famous for its use in kombucha, is a cellulose biofilm that can be grown and molded into sheets. Once dry, this biofilm becomes a material very similar to paper or leather, and it is 100% biodegradable. It is being explored for: packaging, textiles.
Markdown´s basics .ᐟ¶
To start documenting my process i went to GitHub and signed in. Then i went to my profile and clicked on code/web IDE, it popped out a page where i could start editing my page.
And it looked like this, afterwards i clicked on the week i wanted to start working on.
To submit my changes i clicked on the icon located on the upper left part of the page (everytime you modify something a number pops out) and clicked on the commit and push to "main" button.
To upload images, first click right button on images/upload, and then to "call" the path of the image you wanna use with this code:
The following info has helped me so much to understand markdown´s basic functions to customize my page:
To change the theme color and accents go to mkdocs.yml file, the code you wanna change should look like this:
theme:
# The name of the theme, needs to match your requirements.txt file
name: material
# Material theme options:
palette:
# try other colors from https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/changing-the-colors/
scheme: slate
primary: white
accent: blue
To change your main font go to mkdocs.yml as well, and look for this part and type your font after text:
font:
# See available fonts from https://fonts.google.com/
text: Jost
code: Roboto Mono
For having a different font for the titles or headers i followed step by step the documentation from one of my classmates, go checkout Alberto´s page. But basically you need to add on a code on stylesheets/extra.css, mine looks like this:
/** Add your extra/custom CSS classes below */
/* Fuente distinta solo para títulos */
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Jacquard+12+Charted&display=swap');
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-family: "Jacquard 12 Charted", system-ui;
font-optical-sizing: auto;
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
color: #0033f1;
}