HUG BACK PACK

A concept made in the course Digital Craftmanship. This project was an exploration of a bag which creates the effect of a hug by embracing your body in different ways. It adds weight, heat and a breathing effect on the back. It also includes a box to carry sentimental items with you. In addition, the patterns on the device represent the dualism of the hugs needed and the hugs gotten and they are created using AI prompts, and modified using Twitter data.

This course opened my eyes to the possibilities of making and how different methodologies and programs can be used together. For this course, I asked ChatGPT to give me ideas for patterns, using extensive prompts. The shapes were distorted using a personal huging diary and scraping posts containing the world hug from Twitter. And these were visualised and modified in Processing, printed using Blender modifiers, and made into a pattern using a heat transfer press.