Using Running And Cycling Data To Inform My Fashion
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Anna Franziska Michel
Anna Franziska Michel uses her running and cycling data as material for her startling and beautiful work in fashion design.
Anna Franziska Michel uses her running and cycling data as material for her startling and beautiful work in fashion design.
Using Running And Cycling Data To Inform My Fashion
So hi, I’m Anna from Berlin. I’m a sport scientist and a fashion designer and my biggest goal is to transform my personal data in the fashion design.
Some facts about me. I’m a very sporty person. I play volleyball. I do yoga. I’m a long-distance runner and I’m an artist. I was studying art before and I have two kids and I have a lot of activities to do. And I’m studying. I’m doing a masters in fashion design, and for the past year, I’m a founder of a company. So, I was thinking how can I translate that or transform my data into fashion design?
So, I track with my health app on my iPhone. Volleyball, I’m tracking by writing it down. The running data I get from Strava. Yoga, I track by writing it down.
So, how am I doing that? I’m transferring my data to the computer and then we developed an artificial intelligence algorithm. This artificial intelligence is transforming my data to design. I started in 2016, and there was coming out like analysis. What was very interesting because I was seeing the day I was really tired and had the kids running from one time – from one sport to another sport was that they were the lowest activity.
So like Alan said before I was busy and but there was nothing, so what was happening? I was just sitting in the car. So that was my learning from that and the other thing I bought this shirt and we made this line design and yeah, I had this analysis, but didn’t it wasn’t fashion design. So we kept going.
2017, we already put colors inside and we made some differences, even before we couldn’t really print it. It was low output. It was just analysis. And now in 2017, we had like really a design that we could print on my shirt, but I couldn’t see myself in this shirt. It was like I’m a fashion designer and I was doing so many things, but they are just lines what this is.
So, I said to my friend at my work about you have to change it, and so we changed it and we used a neuro painter and that was really what I liked. So, we had a lot of fun, like trial and error and then what was coming out what I really liked what I am. You can see that I actually founded a company in 2018, and the red part is I’m putting more things, I’m sitting more in cars and you can see that was getting really higher. And all the activities that are blue are squirly things.
And yeah, I feel really represented with that, and then we have this fashion show, we won an award with that. Now you see in Microsoft in Berlin we have this fashion show, and the next one is coming like yoga. That was really the part where we were sitting and not moving and just really big and you have just the lines for activities, just the yoga design.
Then we did lines again with wearables, and that’s a yoga design also. So you see all the lines not moving. And yeah, we transformed as well, the cycling design, the cycling data. The last dress was you could see my data running, that was it. Thank you.