DIANA ENG
Nerd and Fashion Designer
Diana Eng is a fashion designer who specializes in technology, math, and science. Her designs range from inflatable clothing to fashions inspired by the mechanical engineering of biomimetics. At 22, her inflatable dress (cocreated with Emily Albinski) made the cover of ID Magazine. In 2005, she was a designer on season 2 of the Emmy nominated hit TV show, Project Runway. She won Yahoo Hack Day in 2006 along with her two-team mates for designing and creating a blogging purse in less than 24 hours. She has worked as an assistant designer in research & development at Victoria’s Secret. She is the author of Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech. Her work has been featured in exhibits both in the U.S. and internationally around the globe, and has graced the pages of such publications as Women’s Wear Daily, Wired, and Craft Magazine. Diana is Make’s ham radio correspondent. Diana currently designs in the NYC fashion industry and is a founding member of Brooklyn based hacker group NYC Resistor.
FASHION NERD
Smart fashion for smart people
Fashion is how you express yourself to the world. Some people express themselves with cute accessories and pink bows, others with torn shirts and punk style. Some people want to express themselves with a witty accessory, something that makes others look at them and think twice. These are the people who wear my designs, the people who want others to look at their shirt, scarf, necklace, and say “hmm, that’s really interesting, I never thought of things that way before.”
