In 2025 WINT Design Lab, Fraunhofer IZM Berlin and casestudies* collaborated on "Soft Interfaces", a one-year-long interdisciplinary research project aimed at developing a product showcase employing Liquid Metal Printing technology.

The project led by WINT Design Lab focuses on combining knitted, custom-engineered fabrics by casestudies, with a new generation of conductive liquid metals developed at Fraunhofer IZM. Precisely encapsulated conductive paths containing liquid metals build functional circuits, applied directly onto the custom-knit textiles, allowing to create stretchable, touch-sensitive surfaces. Promoting the combined potentials of the two technologies, WINT designed an interactive lamp with a textile screen reacting to touch. Stretched over a frame, the entire fabric effectively becomes a tactile interface, allowing to adjust light temperature and intensity.

This series of photographs follows the creative teams of WINT Design Lab and casestudies Berlin iterating on design variations of the knitted fabrics, testing variations of knit patterns to both mark the interactive zones as well as create varying surface textures to enhance and help intuitively guide the tactile experience.