>_ Teaching_&_Advising Teaching & advising
I teach design teams how to keep 3D true from screen to factory.
>_ Keynote / talk
Factory Drift: why good designs change on the way to production.
Where a garment drifts between the approved design and the factory sample, and what design teams can do to stop it.
30–45 min · Conferences · trade shows · team days
>_ Talk
From Massimo Osti to 3D: how technical menswear is engineered.
What Stone Island and the outerwear pioneers got right about garments as research, and how 3D built from the real pattern carries that thinking into today’s design teams.
45–60 min · Brands · trade shows · schools
>_ Talk
Kit design: how a football shirt goes from sketch to stadium.
Inside national-team and club kit design: performance fabrics, fit for elite athletes, fan identity, and the deadlines that leave no room for a second sample.
45–60 min · Brands · clubs · schools · fan events
>_ Workshop
A picture is an opinion, a pattern is an instruction.
A working session for design and development teams on building 3D from the real pattern, so what is approved on screen is what gets made.
Half day · Design + development teams
>_ Guest lecture
3D you can trust at the factory.
For students and programmes moving into digital product creation: how 3D, pattern and production fit together in technical outerwear.
60–90 min · Schools · programmes
## Past talks & writing
>_ Guest lecture · 2023
Wearing Tomorrow
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York. Massimo Osti, MetaFactory MF70 and 3D design for sportswear.
>_ Guest lecture · 2023
Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and Wearing Tomorrow
RMIT University, Melbourne. Designing sprint suits for Tokyo 2020, and how 3D carries performance design to the factory.
>_ Essay
Techunter. Developing PUMA’s aerodynamic sprint suits for Tokyo 2020, from CFD and wind-tunnel testing to the medal podium.
>_ Article · 2022
Industry Shifts: 3D apparel design
SSEAMS, Issue 3. How 3D design tools cut sampling by 50–70% by fixing patterns on screen, not in new prototypes.
>_ Guest lecture · 2021
Wearing Tomorrow
Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University. Sustainable Fashion Technologies unit: Massimo Osti, MetaFactory MF70 and 3D design for sportswear.
>_ Essay
Marking 50 years of Osti mastery ↗
On Massimo Osti, the engineer-designer behind C.P. Company and Stone Island.
>_ Enquire
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