Cool, my pen's leaked all over my dress...

flexibility - renewable clothing by fernando brízio image © designboom flexibility - design in a fast changing society ex carceri 'le nuove', turin june 29 - october12 http://www.torinoworlddesigncapital.it 'flexibility - design in a fast-changing society' is one of the many events taking place in turin this year in  conjunction with the city being named the 'design world capital for 2008'. the show consists of nine  projects by international designers installed at a former prison ex carceri 'le nuove'.  renewable clothing by fernando brízio by placing colored felt-tip pens in the pockets of the dress its appearance changes over time.  within an hour - to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design for each occasion. the owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it. image © designboom image © designboom image © designboom image © designboom image © designboom image © designboom image © designboom fernando brízio - portrait © designboom 'the topic of the exhibition – flexibility – gave me the chance to find again one of these ideas that were still unsolved. this enabled me to create open objects that, like a programme, can be modified,  erased and restarted multiple times.' FB fernando brízio born in angola, 1968. he obtained his college degree in equipment design in 1996, at the fine arts  faculty of lisbon where he is based. since 1999 he has been developing several product design  projects, as well as setting design and exhibition works for details, protodesign, m glass, droog  design, the choreographer rui horta, modalisboa, ccb, intramuros, fabrica, lux/atalaia, experimenta  design, cor unum and gallery kreo, among others. he is professor and head of design at esad.cr  (caldas da rainha, school of art and design) and visiting lecturer at ecal (lausanne). in 2005, he  was a curator for the s*cool ibérica project. he has participated in several conferences and juries,  and his work has been exhibited and published internationally. fernando - brizio --- see the nine installations: renewable clothing by fernando brízio instant rooms by matali crasset liquid memory by ross lovegrove chasen by patricia urquiola mirror-blind by bertjan pot flexible bench by giulio iacchetti domestic sandbags by antenna design jailbreak (vendôme series) by kram/weisshaar my treasures trash by emiliana design studio --- 'flexibility' introduction flexibility - introduction