Here is the key book on the key materials in art, design and shaping the environment in the 21st century. Building on the cult success of "Techno Textiles", this book, newly available in paperback, features developments over the past decade. Highlighting advanced textiles in production and available[...]

The invention of the Jacquard loom in eighteenth-century France paved the way for computing and revolutionary change. From its punch-card origins, code has evolved to define and enable new methods in design, making, visualization, production and communication, achieving the previously unimaginable. [...]