Playful Kimono asks the question, what would your kimono look like?
Drawing inspiration from kimono sample books, or hinagata-bon from the Edo and Meiji periods, the project reinterprets the kimono design process through a digital template and invites users to bring their own unique designs to life.
Playful Kimono has been promoted by the Victoria and Albert Museum and is supported by the Kingston University Business School.
Concept and design by Euphemia Franklin.
Development by Alex Franklin.
The Playful Kimono website was built with React and Redux. The kimono design editor was built with the Fabric.js canvas library.
Playful Kimono is hosted on Heroku and backed by a customised Strapi server, Amazon S3 for image storage, and a MongoDb Atlas database.
This stack allows for complete control of the front-end visual design and image editing implementation, simple content management and moderation for the project's designer, and minimal ongoing hosting costs.
Click the image below for a video demo:
Playful Kimono uses icons from the Iconify Bootstrap Icons collection.
Zoom range slider styles generated with Daniel Stern's range.css tool.