This is an opinion piece. All views expressed in this article belong to me, the editor.

I don’t believe in punching down. As the editor of a pretty well-to-do design magazine, it makes little sense to call out individual designers and students over their work. I do, however, believe in being able to hold larger companies and billion-dollar OEMs to a different standard. There is power in being able to critique designs and help the world understand what’s measurably good and what isn’t… which is why I think it’s alright to sometimes critically look at Apple’s Cheesegrater Mac, the Tesla Cybertruck, or in this case, Facebook’s AR Baseball Cap which is frankly ugly enough to make Google Glass look cutting-edge.

Outlined in a patent filed back in 2019, and spotted just this week by Founders Legal, it looks like Facebook’s working on a more accessible AR headset that can be worn everyday, anywhere. The AR headset exists as a snapback-style cap (although there’s a fedora version too) with a flip-to-open display built into its visor. Facebook describes the design for its forward-thinking headgear as an alternative to traditional AR headsets and goggles that can often appear thick and clunky. In doing so, instead of opting for a more sci-fi design, Facebook believes that integrating the headgear into something like a cap or hat that people wear around every day, is a much better solution. I don’t know about you, but I can’t help cringing at the very thought of a sci-fi fedora. In fact, Facebook even indicates that this foldable display system can easily integrate into different cap styles, including potentially even (and this was actually referenced in the patent file) cowboy hats.

Gizmodo writes: It might look extremely silly, but in its patent filing Facebook says there are some notable advantages of a design like this. It makes it easier to position potentially hot electronics farther away from someone’s face, thereby increasing overall comfort and wearability. The length of the visor also makes it easy for Facebook to position AR components like cameras, sensors, etc. It sounds practical in theory, but looks far from aesthetic if you ask me for my completely subjective opinion. The idea of having to wear a cap so that I can access AR functions seems odd. Not to mention the fact that casualwear and cutting-edge tech don’t necessarily go hand in hand. It’s an incredibly delicate tightrope when you’re walking between tech and fashion – Apple’s excelled in this domain, Google’s had a few hits and misses. I don’t think Facebook’s got this one in the bag.

With news about Apple working on AR glasses, it would almost seem like the sensible move to adopt that direction too. More than 70% of all adults wear glasses as opposed to probably the 20-ish percent who wear baseball caps and fedoras on a daily basis. That’s discounting the fact that an even smaller number of people actually wear caps indoors. Besides, I really don’t know if there’s any data on how many people want cyberpunkish fedoras with built-in AR displays. Those numbers are yet to be collected.

Images Credits: Andrew Bosworth (Facebook Technologies, LLC.)

A textile shopping channel and garments that draw attention to the issue of female sexual harassment are included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at the Lucerne School of Art and Design.

Also in the undergraduate show is a project that strives for textiles to become objects used for mindfulness and another that critiques the use and meaning of wood as a sustainable material.

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

School: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Courses: Bachelor Textile Design
Tutors: Marion Becella Neff, Franziska Born, Brigitt Egloff, Lilia Glanzmann, Doris Kurzmeyer, Tina Moor, Daniela Zimmermann, Jonas Leysieffer, Alexis Schwarzenbach, Caecilia Anderhub and Clara Sollberger

School statement:

“An intelligent photovoltaic facade, a resource-saving carpet or Billie Eilish’s glimmering Grammy outfit – textile design has many facets. Our textile designers invent the world of fibres, fabrics, and finishes with their sense of colour and pattern, texture and structure, functionality and sensuality.

“We combine materials with designs and mix disciplines. Using this hybrid process, we develop forward-looking ideas and aesthetic products – for fashion, architecture, theatre, industrial design, visual arts, interiors and research.”

Remember – a collection To remember by Samina Burtschi

“In times when beach strolls can only take place in our minds, the clothing collection Remember aims to replicate our longing for far-away places. The design represents shells – miniature treasures enveloped in fondest memories. The curves and colours of the shells are translated into textiles from donated clothing.

“Remember is also intended to promote a sensibility for learning, to recognise the value of clothing anew. They not only protect us but also store memories, which is why all of the donated and reprocessed clothes are archived on Instagram along with their histories.”

Student: Samina Burtschi
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Franziska Born and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: samina.burtschi@gmx.ch

Re:see by Andrea Cavegn

“How can design reinforce the relationship between the textile and the viewer? Starting from this question, the collection Re:see addresses ‘changes in perspective’. The collection explores how looking at textiles can become a conscious, mindful act.

“Through their design, the textiles encourage repeated discovery in that the motifs only become apparent when viewed from particular angles. This effect lies in its halftones, which are applied to the textile using inkjet printing and jacquard knitting. The collection not only obliges the viewers to change their spatial position surrounding the fabric but also rethink our attitudes towards textile.”

Student: Andrea Cavegn
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Marion Becella and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: cavegn.andrea@icloud.com

A Sense of Matter – A research into materials by Hanna Egger

“Material means more than simply a raw substance. How we obtain, process and dispose of the material says a lot about how we perceive ourselves as humans and our relation to nature.

“Using artistic-material research, the project focuses on wood in textile design and explores its transformative and multi-dimensional character, reaching beyond the purely material level.

“What if we were to encounter material with more respect and humility and to use it more intelligently? If we were to view trees as more than just material resources and air filters and ask ourselves again what a tree is and stands for?”

Student: Hanna Egger
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Franziska Born and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: hanna.egger@sunrise.ch

Insert explicit content here – A Collection of Ideas on the Subject of Sexual Harassment on the Internet by Chiara Elspass

“Unfortunately, sexual harassment to women is a widespread problem in virtual space. Despite its ubiquitous nature, it would seem that this phenomenon has largely failed to find a place in our spoken culture. For this reason, my project draws attention to the issue. It aims to free the conversation from taboos and offers food for thought.

“The main focus lies in verbal insults and is primarily realised with written words as the design element. As an antithesis to the seriousness of the topic, the textiles – created using embroidery and printing – also contain empowering and affirmative words. As such, the work represents an attempt to show solidarity with those affected by it.”

Student: Chiara Elspass
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Daniela Zimmermann and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: chiara.elspass@gmx.ch

Weaving Dimension by Sonja Hüppi

“When manufactured, weaving appears flat. It is only in the process of cutting and sewing that the flatness can assume a three-dimensionality. This project examines how dimensions can be generated into the textile via the weaving process.

“The aspect of dimension is explored via the design parameters of multiple weaves, voids, drawstrings and specifically selected weft connections. By cancelling the colour, the project focuses purely on technique while defining the research stages.

“After evaluating each arrangement, the complexity is increased by applying new combinations. The results form the potential basis for a variety of technical and fashion applications of dimension, minus offcuts and with fewer processing steps.”

Student: Sonja Hüppi
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Marion Becella, Jonas Leysieffer
Email: socatharina@gmail.com

On Est Ensemble by Anaïs Meyer

“Textiles embody culture. We use them to articulate our sense of belonging. In our globalised world, more and more people feel they belong to more than one cultural space.

“The goal of my work is to express this multiple belonging so that those involved can be represented. It is aimed at people who identify both with the city of Basle and West African culture, which I have combined in a cloth.

“The source of inspiration for this is West African band weaving. Using warp print and weaving-technique patterns, motifs from Basle and West Africa are brought together. On Est Ensemble is both a vision and a statement in one – we are together.”

Student: Anaïs Meyer
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Marion Becella and Alexis Schwarzenbach
Email: lor.textile@gmail.com

TYvee Shopping by Yvee Nogara

“In the first phase of the work, textile-based objects were produced, combined and amended using used fabrics and leftover materials. Then, in a second step, medially staged in the style of the continuous loop of products presented on teleshopping in the 90s, the result is a satirical TYvee Shopping channel.

“Set in a spatial scenery, actors present the objects of desire for sale in an entertaining format. Using an exaggerated stylistic aesthetic, the viewers are seduced and made into accomplices.

“The topics of sustainability and our consumer habits regarding textiles are staged in a satirical and impactful way. As such, TYvee Shopping belongs to the field of critical or speculative design.”

Student: Yvee Nogara
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Daniela Zimmermann and Jonas Leysieffer
Email: yvee.nogara@gmx.ch

Pool 17 – Reminiscences of an Indoor Swimming Pool by Andrea Nüesch

“For all of us, chance encounters with things can evoke personal memories and associations that we instantaneously emotionally identify with them. However, is it possible to stir up reminiscences with impersonal objects?

“In the project Pool 17, I have taken my inspiration from my grandparent’s empty, disused indoor pool to produce a semi-finished textile collection. Numerous details from the current state of the pool and individual motifs that are no longer there are reshaped to make my designs capture the feel of the space and arouse memories. In the process, the project works at a visual, tactile and olfactory level to potentially trigger memories in the recipients themselves.”

Student: Andrea Nüesch
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Daniela Zimmermann and Caecilia Anderhub
Email: andy.nueesch@gmx.ch

Just be that princess by Nina Orgiu

“Our social image is marked by stereotyped binary and heteronormative notions. Colours and forms are thought of as being male or female. But we, as humans, are not either/or, rather both-at-once. It is also interesting that explicitly female characteristics are socially more critically perceived than male ones.

“I have employed precisely this exaggerated gender-female image in the form of a princess. The construed figure of a princess has influenced thousands of people and still does.

“She is a figure that excites dreams and flights of imagination. My everyday costume aims to give people the possibility to immerse themselves in this gender-female princess realm in which they can express a part of their personality.”

Student: Nina Orgiu
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Franziska Born and Alexis Schwarzenbach
Email: nina@orgiu.ch

I feel good by Célina von Moos and Laura Schwyter

“Since the beginning of the pandemic, physical contact has become associated with fear and discomfort. It has become increasingly restricted to operating cold, smooth touch screens. In our project, we have taken a playful approach to textiles and product ideas for living spaces.

“The objects are produced using leftover textile materials and are primarily meant as an invitation to touch soothingly. The project is based on a belief that to strengthen our mental wellbeing, we need a more conscious physical contact with the environment. The result is a feel-good landscape that stimulates the senses and makes us mindful of the immediate momentariness.”

Student: Célina von Moos and Laura Schwyter
Course: BA Textile Design
Tutors: Franziska Born, Daniela Zimmermann and Alexis Schwarzenbach
Email: celi.moos@bluewin.ch

Partnership content

This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and Lucerne School of Art and Design. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.

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Stationery and Furniture really don’t have that much influence over one another. Just given their sheer size difference, the way a piece of stationery interacts with its surroundings is vastly different from how a piece of furniture does, considering their scale. However, Boston-based designer Andrew Edge is hoping to switch things up with the Paperclip Chair, a rather minimalist piece of furniture with oddly pleasing paperclip-shaped legs. The legs come with curved, angled forms made from metal piping, upon which rests the seat, yet another minimally designed detail.

Designer: Andrew Edge

What’s remarkable about the Paperclip Chair is its almost 2D nature made using geometric forms. Even though there’s practically nothing to the chair’s design, it has an eye-catching presence. The curved legs do look like the chair could rock, but given the 4 points of contact, it’s pretty sturdy to sit on. In fact, it’s rather clever how the designer has even used the curves on the front legs to create armrests on the top!

Children are curious. I genuinely believe kids learn more from copying everything we do rather than what we say. And they want to copy us by using the same gadgets we do. For example, my husband picked up his passion for photography from his dad. His dad’s love of tinkering with cameras and picture taking converted this into a lifelong of passion for his son. Understanding this inherent need to pass on our love to our children in a constructive way, Milo x LEICA is a camera that encourages fun, intuitive exploration in children of all ages.

LEICA is known for creating bespoke cameras that are almost collectible. While this clashes with the idea of handing them over to a kid, the quality of the output they deliver are sure to encourage the kids into taking up this hobby with increased frequency. The form of the camera is designed to encourage exploration – with soft rounded edges and a viewfinder that resembles a donut. The design names the viewfinder the visual inspection tool – letting the kid peek through it to discover the world they want to click a picture of. The aesthetics use a soothing yet vibrant white-yellow combination, sparking joy in all they do. Functionality-wise, the camera has a viewfinder, a button to click, a battery level indicator, and a lot that shoots the printed paper out once we click the photo.

Instant cameras are the gatekeepers of our memories. In a world going quickly digital, each printed picture is a gateway into a memory that we can cherish more often. The Milo x LEICA lets us do just that, making photography a fun activity and allowing your child to click pictures that go on and decorate your fridge every day!

Designer: Yang Lei with Yifeeling Design

From Antelope Running, singer-songwriter Jesse Marchant’s ruminative fifth album (out today, 25 June), the single “Dirty Snow” has been released as an intimate live music video, wherein the artist performs alone at the piano. For Marchant, formerly known as JBM, the album is a sprawling set of recollections—where every brief narrative is underscored by emotion. Marchant’s illuminative songwriting and vocals transport listeners into the distinct worlds of each track.