DesignTex and Crypton launch 5x5, a collection of designs by 5 contemporary artists, in hopes that they will be used in children's wards.

It’s been 25 years since Randy Rubin of Crypton and Susan Lyons of DesignTex started working together. Crypton makes “intelligent fabrics” and DesignTex, a company that designs and manufactures applied materials, was an early adopter of Crypton fabrics for their designs.
Theirs was a natural partnership. According to Lyons, printing on textiles was not widely done when they first started their collaboration. “They were too boardy,” Lyons said about printing on other fabrics, because the heat transfer prints would make usual fabric underneath turn hard and inflexible.
Crypton fabrics don’t do that. Rubin says that they are as easy to print on as polyester fabric, the fabric of choice for heat transfer printing. They are water, stain and microbe resistant, and have been widely used in healthcare facilities, pediatric wards, restaurants, hotels and family homes. You’ve probably come across Crypton before; you just didn’t know it. 5×5 Collection Fabrics
This upcoming year, they are launching 5×5, a collection that features work by 5 contemporary artists from around the world. “At DesignTex, we have a running log of people that we like. We chose our group of artists based on gender, age diversity,” Susan Lyons told us. Each piece of artists’ work is first tr...