Materials Girl

My co-advisor Dr. Michielsen (is awesome!)

Tagged: Stephen Michielsen NCSU North Carolina State University textiles du pont

Posted on January 9, 2012 with 11 notes
Check out Du Pont’s 1954 advertising campaign in the Textile Research Journal!

(I want that dress, and that freakin’ Le Corbusier house.)

Tagged: Le Corbusier 1950's Housewife textiles Du Pont Textile Research Journal modern polyester rayon

Posted on October 7, 2011 with 3 notes
Du Pont advertises Nylon, the newest invention by Wallace Carothers, at the World’s Fair in 1939. (that leg lamp ‘aint got nothin’.)

Tagged: leg nylon Du Pont World's Fair polyamide Carothers Christmas Story

Posted on August 22, 2011 with 10 notes