KATE REED
Designer
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WEARABLE
15 featured works

Floral Oscillations

Floral Oscillations
Wearable • Electronics • 2024

A wearable necklace featuring multiple LCD screens housed in floral-shaped brooches, each displaying continuously evolving mathematical visualizations.

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Synthetic

Synthetic
Wearable • Textiles • 2020

A textile synthesizer worn on the body, converting touch, pressure, and light into sound through conductive thread circuitry integrated into fabric.

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Parasite

Parasite
Wearable • Metal • 2019

A copper wearable that activates through galvanic skin response, drawing power from the wearer's perspiration to illuminate its parasitic form.

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Mating Collar

Mating Collar
Wearable • Textiles • 2019

A reactive textile collar that responds to the wearer's physiological excitement through kinetic movement, mimicking animal courtship displays.

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Bugeyed

Bugeyed
Wearable • Electronics • 2021

A wearable featuring six LCD displays that broadcast personal surveillance data, creating overwhelming visual feedback inspired by compound insect vision.

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Symbiosis Storytelling Crowns

Symbiosis Storytelling Crowns
Wearable • Metal • 2020

A series of connected wearable crowns that whisper stories into the wearer's ear, forming a global network for sharing and recording oral narratives.

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Crystal Interfaces

Crystal Interfaces
Computational Design • 3D Printing • 2021

A touch-responsive electronic interface grown from conductive salt crystals, creating a naturally-formed sensor that can be dissolved and regrown in new configurations.

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Bare Bone

Bare Bone
Wearable • 3D Printing • 2020

A luminous wearable exoskeleton that provides ambient light and psychological comfort through embedded LEDs within a parametrically-generated 3D-printed structure.

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Exo-lung

Exo-lung
Wearable • Metal • 2019

Exo·lung is a wearable lung that pulses with air as the wearer becomes excited.

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Worry Prosthetic

Worry Prosthetic
Wearable • Leather • 2018

A wearable musical instrument constructed from sewn leather that embodies the emotion of worry through its slumped, inward-turning form and responsive sound generation.

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Root

Root
Computational Design • 3D Printing • 2021

Root is a wearable object created using parametric modeling and 3D printing to explore how biological growth processes can inform product design.

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Angry Prosthetic

Angry Prosthetic
Wearable • Metal • 2018

A wearable musical instrument featuring sharp bronze prisms that translate aggressive gestures into sound, embodying the emotion of anger through form and interaction.

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Happy Prosthetic

Happy Prosthetic
Wearable • Wood • 2018

A wearable musical instrument with hand-carved wood petals that generate uplifting sounds through playful movement, embodying joy through lightweight form and interaction.

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Pollution Cloud

Pollution Cloud
Wearable • Electronics • 2020

A wearable that visualizes invisible air pollution in real-time through illuminated fiber optic cables, creating a personal pollution cloud around the wearer.

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Body Accordion

Body Accordion
Wearable • Digital Fabrication • 2013

A wearable musical instrument that translates body flexion into sound, creating live performances controlled entirely by the wearer's physical movements.

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