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:

1. Display figures and diagrams, turn a person into some kind of walking poster
2. Make strong statements
3. Display logos of favorite projects, software etc.

It's purpose is to broadcast ideas and get other conference participants interested in what the wearer of conference embroidery has to say.

Various 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 the first person trying to embroid a power point slide and to publish the method.

Method

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
• You also can use a tool like powerpoint and the export the graphic as EMF or write a script that will parse the Presentation file and produce vector graphics in some popular format or directly an embroidery format.
• 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.