Philips is a Dutch multinational engineered and electronics conglomerate. The company owns Philips Design an in-house exploration research project. The Philips Design Probes program was a unique foresighting initiative which tracks emerging developments in five main areas - politics, economics, environment, technology and culture.
SKIN; Dresses[]
Bubbelle was one of a series of dynamic garments developed by Philips Design as part of their on-going SKIN exploration research into the area known as emotional sensing. Nancy Tilbury was the Fashion Director of Probes, part of a pioneering interdisciplinary design team at Philips Design. Called Design Probes, they were part of an ongoing series of experimental projects.
The SKIN probe project explores whether digital innovations really improve our quality of life, focusing on the senses as opposed to intelligent thinking. As part of that on-going project, they created wearable prototypes such as "Bubelle" which debuted at Dutch Design Week in 2007 (October 20-28).
Bubelle is a dress surrounded by "bubble" illuminated by patterns that changed dependent on skin contact. It comprises two layers, the inner layer of which is equipped with sensors that respond to changes in the wearer's emotions and projects them onto the outer textile.
- Director – Clive van Heerden
- Creative Director – Jack Mama
- Fashion Director – Nancy Tilbury
- Body Architect – Lucy McRae
- Team – Rachel Wingfield, Matthias Gmachl, Stijn Osserfort, Bram Osserfort, Ollie Niemi , Oliver Gondorf, Sita Fischer.