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Janet Cooke Hansen is President and Chief Fashion Engineer of Enlighted Designs, Inc. She founded the business to create her own "dream job" as a light-up clothing designer. Janet's eclectic designs combine her lifelong interests of fashion, art, and technology. She learned to sew at age 7, and installed miniature lights in her own dollhouse. Over the years, her costume-making hobby began to incorporate electronics, with illuminating results. With more than eight years of experience in this newly-emerging field, Janet is well known as a pioneer and innovator, creating unique apparel for a variety of international clients. |
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| Do you need to be a rocket scientist to design clothes like this? Probably not, but it doesn't hurt, either. If you're interested in details about Janet's extensive formal training in engineering, you can look here. Her other artistic interests also exhibit a high-tech edge. Janet paints in an abstract geometric style, and creates illuminated wall panels and sculptures, in addition to the lighted clothing described on this site. Janet is a Pisces, and has lived in the San Diego area since 1979. |
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| We've been operating as Enlighted Designs Inc. since early 2000. For several years before that, we were called Eclectic Electric Cyberwear, Originals by Janet Hansen. We've also sold a line of hats under the name EFHED (pronounced f-head), and music-reactive light panels called Sit 'n Stare. | ||
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We spell it this way on purpose. OK, we admit that it doesn't show up in very many dictionaries because we made up this word in a dream, or in the fuzzy waking moments after a dream. It sounds like enlightened (from enlighten), but our word is enlighted (from enlight, an archaic form of enlighten). enlight: to illuminate; to enlighten [Obs] enlighten: to give light to; to give clearer views to; to illuminate; to instruct; to enable to see or comprehend truth; to free from ignorance, prejudice, or superstition. |
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The yin-yang logo symbolizes the merging of opposing forces into a balanced whole. We strive towards this type of balance with our designs, which combine a variety of "opposites": fun and function, right brain and left brain, art and technology, fashion and engineering, and so on. We've replaced the traditional dots with rectangles that are suggestive of an electrical outlet. This also makes it look more like the letter e, for enlighted. |
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| E-mail: info@enlighted.com Phone: 760.505.3343 (US Pacific Time Zone) Mailing address: Physical address: Please call or e-mail first if you would like to make an appointment to visit our Encinitas studio, if you are sending clothes to be modified, or if you need a street address for FedEx, UPS, or DHL shipments. We also have an e-mail list for announcements - you can sign up for that here. |
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