Hot Skateboarding: Designing Color in Motion

Here is some of the material from my final presentation of my thesis project. This photograph shows a study of a surface that responds to non-rigid motion (a morphing or stretching surface). The surface changes from yellow to yellow and red striped when it stretches.



This concept is applied directly to the knee panels of an outfit for downhill longboard sliding, there is a correlation between the movements of the athletes knee joint and the intensity of its color expression.