I'm a designer turned Materials Scientist focused on inter-sectional things like electronic textiles.
(pictured above - a heating LEL that can reach 200 degrees F)
Madison Maxey is passionate about materials and creative technology. She focuses on bringing flexible, robust circuitry (e-textiles) to scale as Founder and Technical Lead at LOOMIA (previously The Crated). 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 pending 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 creates innovation in smart products and related data services that brings comfort, safety and confidence to the human experience. A B2B business that serves Fortune 500 brands and manufacturers, Madison Maxey founded LOOMIA and drives their innovation and technology development.
LOOMIA was voted 2016 startup of the year by Wareable magazine.
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.