Design de superfície têxtil para impressão digital

Abstract

This work aims to research and develop knowledge about surface design, more specifically textile digital printing. Therefore the work was divided into two parts: the first theoretical and the second practice. The first part starts points about mains concepts of surface design, the surface itself and their historical aspects. After that the field of textile surface design is explored specifically, its subdivisions are presented, focusing on stamping their different typologies. In this chapter is explained about a typology stamping titled hybrid, which has a direct relationship with the digital printing process. After discussed the visual aspects of printing, the technical processes of printing are presented according to the type of former used. For physical former printing: silkscreen and rotatory process, and for digital ones: sublimation and direct digital printing. The process analysis emphasizes technical and aesthetic features of each technology, showing its limitations and potential. At the long last of this theoretical part, the last chapter describes the stamping drawing processes through rigid and flexible structures using conventional methods (module and rapport) and non-conventional. In order to put into practice the knowledge researched, the project of digital printing textile pieces is accomplished. The project, in short, is described out of a adapted methodology adapted to the experimental nature of this print: that aims to relate the shape of the body part and the shape of the cloth and the chosen images.