Conference embroidery
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Introduction
The term conference embroidery or embroidered conference wear refers to one kind of Academic embroidery wear.
Conference embroidery can:
- Display figures and diagrams, turn a person into some kind of walking poster
- Make strong statements
- Display logos of favorite projects, software, your organization etc.
It's purpose is to broadcast ideas or identity and get other conference participants interested in what the wearer of conference embroidery has to say.
Various people matching technology and concepts does exit e.g. for business speed dating or as part of CSCL scripts in education. Such location-based matchmaking can be implemented with various specialized devices. Conference wear is an attractive "low tech" alternative. The principle is the same: It should raise the awareness of the presence of others that share similar interests within a reduced spatial area, e.g. a conference building.
I believe that I was the first person trying to embroider a power point slide and to publish the method. I also used other sources to create conference embroidery, e.g. vector graphics programs.
Method for producing a walking conference poster
Below are some steps that you may go through. Some are optional
- Use any kind of drawing program to create the vector art.
- Make sure to use simple flat graphics, e.g. no bevels and other such filters
- You also can use a tool like powerpoint and then export the graphic as EMF and import it to a vector graphics program.
- Simplify all the vectors in the drawing program (optional)
- Translate fonts to vectors in the drawing program (optional)
- Import to the embroidery software and generate stitch sections.
An other alternative is to write a script that will parse the Presentation file and produce vector graphics in some popular format or directly an embroidery format.
These methods and variants cannot be copyrighted and shall remain in the public domain - Daniel K. Schneider 20:11, 24 June 2011 (CEST).
Read one way of doing this in [[1]]
Example
Back of a white shirt that will be worn by Daniel K. Schneider at EdMedia 2011 in Lisbon, June June 27 - July 1
