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One of the things that I am looking for as the advancement of technology and interactive design continues is the influence that it may have on clothing. Back in 2015, there was an article about a company, Print All Over Me, that was trying to give programmers a creative outlet and prompt people who aren’t in a creative field to explore that side of things.

Examples of PAOM’s ability and marketing of this new business
PAOM design concepts via technology driven customization

They push for collaboration and the companies collaborations with companies like Processing Foundation, SoSoLimited, and LIA, all push this extra customization in hopes to give creators and consumers a new platform of design. When this article was released in 2015, the feature of uploading your own code and having it made wasn’t available yet, but instead was a bit more primitive where you could customize the clothing via keywords, number keys, etc. and the code would look through the internet for an image that was fitting.

Although I am not sure how long this whole project has taken, looking at their website in 2017, they seem rather successful and has honed into their niche group pretty well. It will be interesting to see how much further this can be pushed with the inclusion of more technological advances.

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