I'm a designer and materials engineer focused on inter-sectional things like soft electronics (e-textiles).
(pictured above - a heating LEL that can reach 200 degrees F)
Madison Maxey is passionate about materials. She focuses on bringing flexible, robust circuitry (e-textiles) to scale as CEO and founder at Loomia. Throughout the course of her work at Loomia, she has developed e-textiles prototypes and workshops for companies like North Face, Google, PVH, Flextronics, Adidas and Corning.
Maddy’s work has built the foundation for several patents and has lead to invitations to lecture at Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, NYU and University of Illinois Champaign Urbana.
In addition to e-textiles, Maddy has performed computational design and physical computing work for the F.I.T Museum, Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, CNBC’s Jump Jive and Thrive and Google Creative Lab. She has also held creative technology residences at the School of Visual Arts, Autodesk, and Pratt’s BF+DA where she won the BF+DA Technology Innovation Award.
Forbes 30 under 30 Member, TED@NYC selected speaker, Thiel Fellow, Lord & Taylor Rose Award Recipient, Future of Storytelling Fellow, Project Diane Founder (a database of 28 black women who have raised over $1m in venture funding).
Project Runway, Intel’s America’s Next Top Maker, Good Morning America, CBS’s Jump Jive and Thrive, NPR.
Before Loomia, Maddy worked at General Assembly and interned at Autodesk, Tommy Hilfiger and NYLON Magazine.
Maddy has spent 5 years researching the flexible and drapable circuitry layer that comprises LOOMIA’S core technology today. This circuitry layer is creasable and washable, bringing functionality to textiles in apparel and beyond. Similar to how one can pattern a PCB to carry out an incredible number of functions, LOOMIA’s electronic layer (the LEL) can be patterned to be an antenna, light up LEDS, sense Cap touch, and heat.
Loomia designs and manufactures soft, flexible electronics for use across industries.
Maddy’s Computational design work uses code and computer programs to make visual patterns that can be printed onto textiles. In her work, she uses popular algorithms and customized datasets to make striking visuals.