Daniel Widrig and his use of engineering in art and fashion

Daniel Widrig is a British architect and artist with the talent of versatility, capable of going from city planning to sculpture, to then go through fashion and design.

All thanks to his mixture of knowledge of engineering, instinct for experimentation and visual sensibility.
Widrig collaborated with the fashion designer Iris Van Herpen to create a collection of 3D dresses, with interesting shapes and digital looks. Those clothes have been shown at the Paris Fashion Week and at the International Fashion Week in Amsterdam, demonstrating an incredible variety of elaborated surfaces, organic forms and asymmetric proportions that we usually see only in objects and buildings, now appearing on the bodies of models.
He explored different ways to access fashion with this particular style, creating a dress even for Nike, with the geometries that represent the human movements, inspired by the moving images of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge.
Widrig has also opened his own studio in London, dedicating his art to sophisticated digital techniques and the appearance that remains inspired by biology and engineering.
One of his most recent works is called ''Grid'' and is a series of ultralight objects in polyamide under the shape of a crystalline reticulum from which organic strips start growing.
On how he started with 3D computer graphics, he explains: "I started using 3D applications while studying architecture.

I was specifically interested in the way people, such as Greg Lynn, were using tools like Maya.

That was pretty uncommon in architectural design at that time. Then, in London, I met some interesting and very skilled people and had the chance to work with them in unusual studio conditions on uncommon and sometimes very strange projects."