Aaron Roberts ( room11 ) and Fashion Designer Alexi Freeman team up for their second installation as part of the State of Design Festival in Melbourne this week, continuing their experiments into the re-interpretation of Freeman’s clothing design and pattern making. The AFAR 2 project disects and layers the plaid from Freeman’s  S/S 09-10 collection, applying it to a topographical re-hash of  the original flapper motif from AFAR 1.  Cad models are brought to life using handcrafted stencil techniques and… sticky tape! The extrusion and layering of the pattern allows for a build up of complexity, a volumetric interplay of light, shadow and pattern. The hope is that these ongoing investigations will inform and influence future work in their respective disciplines.