The Conceptual Printed design for furnishing fabrics by Upcycling waste through the digital sustainability

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 EBenha University, Applied arts

2 Department Textile Printing,Dyeing and Finishing-Faculty of Applied Arts - Helwan University

3 Faculty of Applied Arts- Benha University.

Abstract

The researcher links the interaction of the modern artist with various neglected consumer materials with technical and intellectual grounds, and the issue of waste recycling and sustainable development goals, and digital art methods, so the waste turns from functional use into a symbolic conceptual value, in a combination that the researcher called "The Digital Sustainability"; To produce complex printed designs suitable for furnishing fabrics that serve the three main axes of sustainable development, On the environmental side: print design has acquired an awareness of environmental issues and the aesthetics of digital recycling, as well as the production of complex three-dimensional printed designs without the need for traditional three-dimensional printing that is harmful to the environment such as plastisol paste, and without the need for additives made of textile and embroidery artworks, so its production has become digitally printed, On the economic side: producing designs in which three-dimensional figures interchange with two-dimensional surfaces raises the value of digital printing, and the possibility of increasing production and exports of printed textiles using designs that defy convention and achieve leadership in creating global design trends so that Egypt regains its position in the field of textiles, and on the social side: Developing the child's disassembly and assembling skills, especially by using the philosophy of recycling, raising the consumer's aesthetic taste by perceiving the whole through parts, and also mentally stimulating the transformation of the ugly into the beautiful.

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