{"id":2323,"date":"2014-10-19T16:06:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2014-10-19T16:06:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T20:06:21","slug":"love-your-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2014\/10\/19\/love-your-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Your Library: Disruptive Luxury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/10070.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/LYL_web_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Love Your Library is a series of events hosted by the FIT Gladys Marcus Library focusing on different aspects of the fashion industry. This year marks their 7th year of consecutive success and I was really impressed by the quality of their guest speakers. Last Wednesday I assisted <strong>Disruptive Luxury: 3D Printing for Fashion and Luxury Goods <\/strong>with the Designer Francis Bitonti who is known for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J4zGFdKfU1U\">world&#8217;s first fully articulated 3-D Printed Gown for Dita Von Teese.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He covered everything from a brief history of his design studio, the future of the industry, and changes to both as a result of technologies like 3D printing. (His studio also offers free courses, check them out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5ztbqAfM6II\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MakerBot Stories | Francis Bitonti Studio\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sMzSnh_J3yE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Some of the things I took away:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3D printing is so much more than rapid prototyping.<\/li>\n<li>There is a shift on how content is created, language makes things and that language today is code.<\/li>\n<li>Mathematical Models drive innovation.<\/li>\n<li>We have to embrace computation as a creative media.<\/li>\n<li>We should stop trying to reproduce what we already have.<\/li>\n<li>3D printing can be a Zero Waste Process.<\/li>\n<li>We have a level and control of precision like never before seen in humankind.<\/li>\n<li>There is a trend on making smaller printers not bigger.<\/li>\n<li>In approximately 10 years the patents will die which will make the technology more widely available and less expensive.<\/li>\n<li>The future is in our hands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aLF-aPX-J1-J3\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/?ui=2&amp;ik=4ee56a8e4b&amp;view=fimg&amp;th=14929febb753661d&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=inline&amp;realattid=1482423044849795072-local0&amp;safe=1&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ9AxoFggJvzXErG57WzPFp7hEN5CkSGdbakeAcCyQ8eXjzzRJbfnt15Nk-fjMv_FZDesIheujlVp5L4wNAlQjlzRpkmhzD4WBc4cSu0iE6btoITnJyVGkof-Vo&amp;ats=1413748806236&amp;rm=14929febb753661d&amp;zw&amp;sz=w1256-h552\" alt=\"Displaying 20141016_174324.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"375\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aLF-aPX-J1-J3\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/?ui=2&amp;ik=4ee56a8e4b&amp;view=fimg&amp;th=14929febb753661d&amp;attid=0.2&amp;disp=inline&amp;realattid=1482423044849795072-local1&amp;safe=1&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ_wTJG6OZYoI8yEcOiq-0yuXH_iIQNEoH3cDi7zD_qNV_29k0i6Dw9O-4ACzRNkp7kCP5wlmlTD7KNzWYJHFcDRXO9s4MBjr_Q8X4OwloAzikbDnr_Rk-kFOfs&amp;ats=1413748806236&amp;rm=14929febb753661d&amp;zw&amp;sz=w1256-h552\" alt=\"Displaying 20141016_180809.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carpe Diem,<\/p>\n<p>Sadie<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"shrinkToFit decoded\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/LYL_FrancisBitonti_101614_full.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/LYL_FrancisBitonti_101614_full.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"672\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone, Love Your Library is a series of events hosted by the FIT Gladys Marcus Library focusing on different aspects of the fashion industry. This year marks their 7th year of consecutive success and I was really impressed by the quality of their guest speakers. Last Wednesday I assisted Disruptive Luxury: 3D Printing for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2014\/10\/19\/love-your-library\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Love Your Library: Disruptive Luxury&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8688,133,31161,31471,31925,31451,36398,32067,31193,7318],"tags":[32023,24284,36441,31905,146,42,33707,122,8626,18706,36386,8569],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","category-bloggers","category-campus-life","category-creating","category-fashion-events","category-on-campus-fun","category-liberal-arts-academics","category-resources-at-fit","category-sadie","category-student-life","tag-32023","tag-3d-printing","tag-coding","tag-fashion-careers","tag-fashion-design","tag-fit","tag-gladys-marcus-library","tag-library","tag-networking","tag-new-york-city","tag-printfx","tag-sustainability","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3StnM-Bt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}