Problem Slide:

Many endangered animals are forces into the illegal wildlife trade because of their rarity and economic value. They are held in tight cages for long periods of time and are deprived ot their natural habitat.

Solution Slide:

We created a dress which represents how caged animals feel...uncomfortable, vulnerable, trapped, and unnatural.

Precedents:

For precedents we included a picture of a woman wearing a tight dress and a picture of giraffes from the side, showing their pattern.

Sketches:

We included two pages of sketches, the first being the earliest ones. The middle page is a  pattern from Rhino that we modeled off a giraffe's pattern. We used Rhino to trace a pattern and offset each line by a little bit to create space in between the blocks of the pattern.

Iteration 1:

Our first iteration features a brown piece of fabric with laser cut cardboard pieces of the giraffe pattern glued on to it.

Iteration 2:

Our second iteration was a new design. We used two halves of the dress instead of one uniform piece of fabric. We also added "bridges" to connect the two sides of the dress.

Iteration 3:

Our third iteration was a improvement of iteration 2. Instead of paper, we used black fabric. We replaced the paper bridges with laser cut thin wood pieces and 3d printet brackets.