Engineers Behind Adobe’s Interactive Dress Explain How It Changes Patterns Within Seconds

Adobe, the tech company known for its software programming, blew audiences away when it debuted its first digital dress. At Adobe’s annual Max conference in Los Angeles in October, research scientist Christine Dierk revealed her cutting-edge creation, which is nearly five years in the making. “I’ve been joking that I’ve finally finished my internship project,” Dierk told WWD. “When I started as an intern in 2019, I was tasked with making the dress in a single summer. Obviously, it took me a little longer than that.” Project Primrose by Christine Dierk. Titled Project Primrose, Dierk collaborated with fellow Adobe engineer, TJ Rhodes, to try to innovate in the wearable technology space. As demonstrated by Dierk during the conference, the dress uses laser-cut polymer dispersed liquid crystal “petals” to change patterns within seconds. Each petal is underlaid with a printed circuit board, which allows them to fluctuate between shades of gray and ivory. Dierk and Rhodes first experimented with the petals by sticking them to a two-dimensional canvas. Then, they created their first wearable prototype: a handbag. “The electronics allow us to tile the petals onto any surface,” Dierk said. “So it could be a handbag, it could be a wall, it could even be furniture

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