Jenny huang

Grey Sheep

@thegarmentlab_

Location

london / United Kingdom

University

Royal College of art (RCA)

Graduation year

2023

Contact

Jenny Huang is an interdisciplinary designer, an educator and a competitive powerlifter.
As a designer, she is keen on exploring and developing innovative approaches to patterning cutting and manipulating 3D structures. Her angle of seeing shapes and structures forms her distinctive practice and the ways she creates materials. It allows her to methodologically explore the possibilities of 2D surfaces transforming into 3D structures.
Along with her working experience in education, she truly believes that incorporating knowledge from diverse disciplines is crucial for making fundamental differences. She is determined to push the boundaries of traditional design and to explore new avenues of creativity. for her, To her, being a designer entails embracing uncertainty and stepping onto unfamiliar terrain.
As a competitive powerlifter, she is currently ranked as the UK's top 16 powerlifter at 63kg weight class. She believes a woman's strength can be just as power- ful as her mind.

Latest Collection

Auxetic patterning

The project aims to develop an innovative approach to pattern-cutting that creates garments from entirely flat sheets. This is achieved by leveraging auxetic geometries to manipulate materials. The proposed method also explores the potential of transforming 2D surfaces into 3D struc- tures by embedding desired structures into the 2D surfaces.
The method plays a role as a generator that provides unlimited possibilities rather than a mere design outcome. The design process was bottom-up by first understanding the mechanism and kinemat- ics of the auxetic cell units with a range of in-plane expansion and contraction ratios. The materials that are pattern-cut and fabricated with this method may be deployed into the pre-programmed struc- tures with the interaction of human bodies or objects.