Amanda Buckley

Amanda Buckley is an American product designer based in Zürich, Switzerland. She specializes in the design of furniture, lighting, product systems, design research and product experience installations. She began her career in corporate America designing office furniture for a global manufacturer, thus her work spans the simple to the complex with a deep understanding of the context in which things live. Amanda uses design as a way to think through contemporary issues while exploring the frequencies between the lines. With a hands-on approach, she employs a rigorous yet fluid process that values collaboration, research, and making. Amanda works internationally as both an independent and freelance designer.

Works for Lady Gaga[]

2013[]

Anemone[]

Anemone is a 3D printed white dress featuring an integrated bubble factory. It is also the first in a series of couture technologies to be released by the TechHaus with Studio XO and designed by Amanda Buckley and Weilong Xie during the ARTPOP campaign. The dress was printed by Materialise using their patented Mammoth stereolithography machines, the world’s largest 3-D printers. The garment features leather ribbons and an integrated bubble factory.

Volantis[]

Volantis is a flying dress created by TechHaus and Studio XO. The name of the dress, Volantis is Latin for flight. According to the press release, the dress is "a purpose designed transport prototype designed to carry one person in a controlled hover and directional movement". The design of the transport of based on proved designed (need new world 2 x design) providing the best thrust to weight ratio for such a vehicle, this design has six booms in a "Hex" formation with two electric motors on each boom providing power to two custom carbon fiber propeller blades. The rotors are then contained within a carbon fiber cowl providing protection from the rotors when operational and managing airflow through the rotors.