[TypeStitch]
Soft Craft as Media and Language
for Empowerment
2022—2023
3 Cross Stitched Clothing Articles—Shirt, Bucket Hat, and Crossbody Bag,
and 2 Publications
Graduation Project
Level 3 BA Design Communication
LASALLE
Soft Craft as Media and Language for Empowerment is a research project studying how craft can be used as an alternative approach to traditional activism in Singapore’s strictly regulated political climate.
Typestitch experiments with the translation of messages into textile patterns using the craft technique of cross stitching. The experiments explore how clothes can be used to represent and embody messages.
In contrast to the traditional activist use of protest banners to convey a message, the delivery through clothing is much more covert, maintaining the same level of exposure for the message delivered, while not compromising on the users’ safety.
Typestitch experiments with the translation of messages into textile patterns using the craft technique of cross stitching. The experiments explore how clothes can be used to represent and embody messages.
In contrast to the traditional activist use of protest banners to convey a message, the delivery through clothing is much more covert, maintaining the same level of exposure for the message delivered, while not compromising on the users’ safety.
Documentation of Creative Process Journal (CPJ) in progress...
Due to the project’s exploratory nature, it was critical that the presentation of the three physical outcomes were paired with documented in-progress works and past trial explorations.
Compiled into a mini publication, the journal records all details of the year long research.