If you follow tennis, please check out Serena Williams’ dress at the 2009 Australian Open. (She won her first match today.) The dress is a collaboration between Nike, 1 of 1 studio (Cait Reas), and myself. The initial printed pattern was created by Serena through using the Protean Image software.

I found this quote from Ms. Williams on the Australian Open website:

I love patterns. . . I’m really inspired by prints. I remember I was sitting in my apartment and I literally had to go to, like, different pages on the computer and kind of graphically design the pattern. So it was interesting. It was just really weird concepts. We came up with some circles and some lines, just kind of things like that. It was cool.

After that visit, image refinement and printing tests led to the final design (pictured above). The final image was rendered at 16,384 x 12,288 pixels and printed onto a treated high-performance textile. The dress body was developed by Nike. One year after the process started, Ms. Williams is wearing the dress this week. Thanks to Elaine Lucius for setting this up!

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