环境设计 students may know 特拉维斯Weis as a classmate in their studio and lecture courses, others may interact with him regularly in the Digital Media Center, where he takes on the role of lead tech assistant. In addition to being both a full-time student and student leader, he manages an apparel business. Weis, a third-year architecture major from Denver, created 释放思想 to help spread positivity through clothing that aims to simultaneously support the community and environment.
Learn more about Weis’s fashion concept and how he hopes to spark inspiration with his audience.
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“释心”指的是放下. Often during periods of stress or hardship in life, my feelings and thoughts made whatever I was dealing with worse. Leading my actions to change from how I would normally face problems. I realized that feelings and thoughts can be manipulated by the world around us, but it also helped me understand they don't have to be.
My mind consciously or unconsciously holds on to expectations I have for myself and the world, but life became a whole lot easier to manage when I began to let go of these expectations. Releasing the mind comes down to individuals learning about how and why they think and using that to become less attached to the things that they see around them. It's learning to not get caught up in the words on a page because it is easy to forget it's only paper.
不要学会停止感觉. But to have enough control in mind to be able to take a step back and observe feelings, 感知它的影响. Never trying to outwit or fight what can't be controlled, it's the understanding that everything I perceived has influenced me to become the person I am today. So instead of being haunted by the pain and struggle of this world, it's knowing the hardships I face and overcome that truly define my character.
The understanding that feelings of want and sadness give more significance to feelings like selflessness and love. I couldn't keep looking for happiness in the things I saw around me because I would never truly find it. I needed to find happiness in the one place I didn't look. 在我自己. 这就是服装的灵感来源. The idea of letting go resonated with me so much I wanted to use symbolism and imagery to get people aware of what I think releasing the mind means. The best part, just the words “释放思想" can inspire something different for everyone. I hope to spread a message in order to help out anyone who is struggling like me. If I can manage to do that, all of the work I put into this brand becomes worth it.
Truthfully, I don't like industry, especially a super wasteful and unethical one like fashion. My vision is for my friends and me to be some of the pioneers in a new type of thinking. Developing people, community, and environment as the new role for industries. The power of business comes from the people, so why shouldn't businesses give back to people too. That's why all of the shirts we sell are guaranteed to be ethically sourced and use materials that reduce their impact on the environment. Extensive research goes into who makes our clothing and how they are treated because we want to be proud of where it comes from. 但这仅仅是个开始, 因为我还在上学, I am constantly researching how I can help the community and environment through this concept of 释放思想. 希望, 在别人的帮助下, it will grow into something that can create real change, 但是现在, 我还是继续发贴纸吧.
是什么让它成为现实?
Making this company took months of hard work and constant failure. 通过天, 有时是几周的创作倦怠, 无数趟往返丹佛的巴士, and even using my skateboard to deliver orders it took months to just create this idea in the first place. Sometimes I had to take three steps back before I could take another step forward. I had to start from scratch so many times that I got used to it. 最重要的是, 时尚行业充斥着廉价产品, 粗制滥造、难以为继的衬衫. More sustainable shirts made from plastic water bottles, 有机棉, 天丝棉模态, or recycled polyester are starting to come into the market, 但往往供不应求，而且价格更高. 然而我在ENVD的背景, I realized how important it was to use more sustainable options so, 除了使用可持续的衬衫, our newest [product] drop was hand pressed in my dad's garage.
How do you balance managing 释放思想, working in the DMC, and coursework?
平衡我的ENVD课程, clothing brand and student lead position at the Digital Media Center was a challenge getting used to, 但最终, I realized work doing each of these things often inspires work for another. 例如, if I learn a tool on Adobe illustrator while I am making shirts I can use that same tool to help students at the DMC or in my own studio projects.
What’s something unique about 释放思想 you want everyone to know?
释放头脑不是为了赚钱才开始的, it was never and will never be the purpose for the work we do. 释放心灵只是我想要回报的梦想, 通过时尚传播信息, 设计来改变世界.