Formative Characteristics of Women's Shoes Design Utilizing 3D Printing Technology

Abstract

1)This study examines the morphological expression type and formative characteristics of women's shoes designs that integrate 3D printing technology. The results of the study are as follows. First, the morphological expression types of contemporary shoes that integrate 3D printing technology express a structural form created by repetition. Second, it expresses a dynamic form, which combines organic curves that create an external volume. Third, it expresses a surrealistic form centered on an object with the creation of a unique shape that utilizes objects easily experienced in local surroundings. Fourth, it expresses a hybrid form on a partial derivation. Each of the other system's components are fused to create another beauty that develops a new value in a colorful variation on the shape of 3D printing shoes. The first formative characteristic of women's shoes designs that integrate 3D printing technology is continuity. This creates an invisible form of a new space through repetitive unidirectional layers with a gradual expansion of a unitary seamless curves. Second, it is an exaggeration. This exaggeration elicits an enormous aesthetic quality by structuring the outward space in the difference of the volume formed based on the maximization of a specific part and the volume of a line's atypical movement. Third, it is a decoration. It displays the beauty of a decoration that evokes a unique artistic inspiration by partial unification or a practical representation of a specific form. This can also be seen as superimposing a 3D printing figure that has an outstanding shape onto part of the fashion shoes. Fourth, it concerns a geometrical characteristic that formulates a new structure with rationality in combining basic shapes such as circles, triangles and squares with lines, hexagons and interconnected geometrical forms to create a multi-dimensional space for shoes in a systematic and unidirectional pattern.

Fabrication of 3D printed garments using flat patterns and motifs

“…This instigated the potential for the popularization of 3D printed fashion goods, which encouraged related studies. However, the limitation in the printable size and the durability circumscribed researchers to mostly focus on fashion items (Yap and Yeong, 2014) such as necklace (Lee et al , 2015), shoe (Lee and Lee, 2016b; Kim et al , 2016; Arribas and Alfaro, 2018) or hat (Kim, 2016). Nevertheless, researchers have continued their efforts to make 3D printed apparels.…”