The Human Printer: Handpainted CMYK-Raster
Über The Human Printer hatte ich schonmal vor vier Jahren gebloggt, aber seit damals haben sie sich eine vernünftige Website angeschafft und einige neue Arbeiten hochgestellt.
Unlike any other printer thehumanprinter creates unique, individual images each time it prints. Following the same process as a digital printer, thehumanprinter generates the printed product by hand. Throughout the printing process thehumanprinter assumes the role of the machine and is therefore controlled and restricted by the process of using CMYK halftones created on the computer.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Handstitched CMYK Raster Alphabet
RGB Color Space Atlas
Tauba Auerbach hat einen Atlas für den RGB-Farbraum in ein ziemlich dickes Buch gedruckt. Ich gehe schwer davon aus, dass sie trotzdem keine Lichtfarben drucken konnte und das hier quasi eine Simulation in CMYK ist, aber als Konzept natürlich dennoch sehr hübsch.
american artist tauba auerbach presents the 8 x 8 x 8-inch hard-back cubes illustrating the RGB color scheme in a page-by-page medium. a digital offset print on paper with airbrushed cloth cover and book edges create a colorful reference volume of all the colors in existence. the special binding was co-designed by the artist herself in collaboration with daniel e. kelm, and were printed at wide awake garage, an independent bookbinder, with help from leah hughes.
Playing Cards printed on used New York Metro-Tickets
Metro-Deck verkaufen Poker-Sets, die sie auf benutzte Fahrkarten der New Yorker U-Bahn drucken. Schick!
Printed on found and repurposed New York City subway fare cards, Metro Deck attempts to visually capture the common thread between commuters, public transportation, and chance. Every card has been gathered at random, after having been purchased, used, and discarded by either a visitor or resident of New York City. Some have been signed or otherwise marked, making each card unique with its own narrative potential.
Appropriating the language of playing cards, the work asks us to consider our intimate connection with the subway and the city. The face cards are inspired by landmarks across the five Boroughs, referencing the tremendous reach of the subway system. Whether it’s a delay because of a sick passenger, train traffic ahead, or the ever-popular police activity, a “lucky hand” can make the difference between a brisk fifteen minute commute or a grueling, hour-long one.
Metro-Deck (via Coudal)
Experimental Printing with Aspirin and Tobacco
Vimeo Direktaspirin, via Create Digital Motion
Schickes Portrait über Stefan Guzy und Björn Wiede vom Gestaltungsbüro Zwölf und ihren experimentellen Print-Prozess, in dem sie Druckfarbe aus zum Beispiel Aspirin, Fett, Tabak oder Kreide herstellen. Das Video kommt von der Galerie Reign of Art, wo man Prints der beiden kaufen kann. Aus einem Interview mit Reign of Art:
Was interessiert Euch an den Materialstudien am meisten?
Eine bisher nicht „gedruckte“ Flüssigkeit/Substanz oder einen Werkstoff flach und gleichmäßig auf einen großen Bogen Karton aufgebracht zu sehen ist letztendlich das für uns unbekannte und daher spannende Seherlebnis. Das gedruckte Material spielt häufig sehr stark mit Umgebungslicht – viel kräftiger als im Falle normaler Druckfarbe – und übt durch die meist nicht erkennbare Zusammensetzung eine gewisse Anziehung aus.Geht es Euch darum bestimmte Eigenschaften des genutzten Materials sichtbar zu machen oder liegt Euer Fokus vielmehr auf den optischen Effekten, die durch eine bestimmte Druckart entstehen können?
Der Effekt ist nicht das Ziel. Motivation ist die grundsätzliche Erweiterung der möglichen Druckfarben im Siebdruckverfahren. Wir sehen daher die grafischen Blätter als Mustertafeln zum Anschauen, Anfassen oder Riechen.
Letterpress Artshow in NYC
Schöne Print-Ausstellung im ADC New York, für die sie Sprüche auf der Straße aufgeschnappt haben und zu Prints auf alten Druckmaschinen verarbeitet haben. Von Behance: „ʻNew York Typesʼ an exhibit held at the Art Directors Club in New York as part of New York Writes Itself. A project we created for The Village Voice. The exhibition brought to life the real words heard on the streets of New York.“
Book Perfume
Steidl hat zusammen mit dem Wallpaper Mag ein Parfum auf den Markt gebracht, das wie frisch gedruckte Bücher riecht.
“The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.”
Karl LagerfeldThis tells the story of a passion and a twisting plot to put the particular bouquet of freshly printed books in a bottle. Gerhard Steidl was first alerted to the importance of the smell of a book by Karl Lagerfeld, prompting a passion for paper and the composition of a scent on the pages of a book. To Wallpaper* magazine the pairing of the publisher with the perfumer seemed a natural partnership and so the idea for Paper Passion was born. Wallpaper* Magazine commissioned master perfumer Geza Schoen to create a fragrance based on the smell of books to be part of the Wallpaper* magazine Handmade exhibition in Milan.
Paper Passion by Gerhard Steidl, Geza Schoen (via io9)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Library Perfume
Bacon Perfume
Artist turns his shit into perfume
Artist turns her Piss into Perfume
Sex Pistols-Perfume
New York Times-Candle smells like Dead Wood
Strip Club launches Alibi-Perfume
Moveable Type City
Hong Seon Jang baut Miniaturstädte aus Bleilettern, mehr Bilder seiner Type City gibt’s auf der Website der David B Smith-Gallery. (via Colossal)
Encyclopaedia Britannica goes out-of-print
Die Encyclopaedia Britannica, eins der ältesten heute noch aktiven Printprodukte der Welt – vielleicht sogar das älteste –, wird nach dem Ausverkauf der letzten Auflage ihr Printgeschäft aufgeben und nur noch digital in verschiedenen Formen existieren. Print is dead, sag ich doch: After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses: „In an acknowledgment of the realities of the digital age — and of competition from the Web site Wikipedia — Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily on its online encyclopedias and educational curriculum for schools. The last print version is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds and includes new entries on global warming and the Human Genome Project.“ Hier der Blogeintrag der Britannica-Redakteure: Change: It’s Okay. Really.
Behind the Scenes of a 1992 National Geographic Cover-Story
Youtube Direktgeo, via Petapixel
Ziemlich faszinierende Mini-Doku über die Entstehung der 1992er National Geographic Coverstory „The Sense of Sight“, in der Fotograf Joe McNally blinde Menschen in New York fotografierte. Der Clip zeigt dann den kompletten Prozess inklusive Illustratoren und Layoutern.
Bookmarks for Dezember 17th: 1966 Batman-Intro in Lego, International Food-Art-Incident and Saddam, Googles L-Team
Sweden Is Lending The Country’s Twitter To Citizens | Geekosystem: In a weird but awesome move, Sweden has started a campaign where its official Twitter account, @sweden, will be taken over and operated by a different Swede every week.
Occupy Goes to Washington, Finding Politics is Complicated | Threat Level | Wired.com: Even by Occupy Wall Street standards, the Washington, D.C. situation is messy and uncertain.
Artist Michael Rakowitz on How His Saddam Hussein Dinner Party Became an International Incident | Artinfo: When a dinner of venison topped with date and tahini sauce was served on plates taken from Saddam Husseins private collection at Park Avenue Autumn for Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitzs project „Spoils“, the assorted art-world diners didn’t bat an eye – but now New York Citys Iraqi mission has, turning Rakowitzs piece into an international incident. The controversy, exploding on the eve of the U.S.s supposed withdrawal from Iraq, has had reverberations touching the artist, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and president Obama himself. As Iraqi artifacts, the plates have been confiscated by the Iraqi mission after a cease-and-desist letter was sent to the restaurant, and were presented by Obama to the Prime Minister on Wednesday.
Exclusive: Google CEO’s inner circle: Meet the L Team | Reuters: The most powerful group at Google Inc used to be known simply as "The OC," short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: „L Team“ short for Larry’s Team.
Parting Shot: ‘Go Freelance,’ The Board Game About Being a Comics Freelancer
What If… Herge Created The X-Men?
ARYZ x MONTANA LiSBOA | Silkscreen Print on Vimeo
The Command Line Crash Course – Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal
awesome Gmail Tips : Gmail as you have never known it before
Mars Attacks Portfolio of Roughs Published ~ 1982
Web Symbols typeface
StarCraft changed my life
Early sound recordings heard for first time: Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California together with digital conversion experts at the Library of Congress and curators of the work and industry division of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have succeeded in playing some of the earliest experimental sound recordings by Alexander Graham Bell.
Bradley Manning Had Secrets | Adam Butcher – Writer. Director. Filmmaker: The story of Bradley Manning, not as a Wikileaks ‘hacktivist’, but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscious and a crisis-of-identity. Animated in a rotoscoped pixel-art style and using dialogue from Bradley’s online conversations, the film explores issues of personal and political secrets, digital identity and alienation.
Changing Contours of Global Order, Professor Noam Chomsky – YouTube: Professor Noam Chomsky presented a lecture „Changing Contours of Global Order“ a look at our drastically changing world, and the implications for domestic and world order on 4 November 2011. This was a free public lecture and was Professor Chomskys only public appearance in Melbourne, Australia.
Art Spiegelman Lecture at SHU – YouTube: SHU ComicsAnimation has uploaded a good, long video featuring Art Spiegelman giving a lecture – it features discussion about Maus, the Holocaust in the media and the craft of creating comics.
Adrian Frutiger – Ein Leben – YouTube: Mit Schriften wie der Univers und der Frutiger hat sich Adrian Frutiger schon zu Lebzeiten ein Denkmal gesetzt. Seine Schriften haben den Alltag geprägt und sind zum Beispiel auf den Euro Scheinen wieder zu finden. Einer der größten Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts ist den meisten Menschen vollkommen unbekannt. Dieses Interview soll das ändern.
Mozilla Reinvents Web Video With Popcorn 1.0 | Webmonkey | Wired.com: Popcorn is simply a JavaScript library that aims to simplify the process of adding external data culled from around the web to your video. To give an idea of what’s possible with Popcorn, Mozilla is showcasing the movie One Millionth Tower, a documentary film about an apartment building and how residents imagine the future. One Millionth Tower premiered online last weekend at Wired.com. If you haven’t seen it yet, head over to the Underwire blog.
One Millionth Tower uses some tricks beyond Popcorn (like WebGL for some 3D elements), but most of its coolest effects — like the way the environment in the film changes based on the real-time weather conditions and time of day at the Toronto high-rises where the documentary was filmed — are all courtesy of Popcorn.
If it happens to be snowing in Toronto when you watch the film, it will begin snowing in the virtual world of One Millionth Tower.
Submarine-, Linotype- and secret Mountain-Bookstore-Panoramas
Die Panorama-Plattform 360Cities hat in den letzten Wochen einige tolle Dinger rausgehauen. Oben der Chungcheong-do Buchladen in den Bergen von Danyang, Südkorea, hier die HMS Alliance im Royal Navy Submarine Museum, hier eine hundert Jahre alte Linotype in einem Printshop in Neapel, da eine alte, verlassene Überwachungsanlage in Italien und dort das Café JazzStory in Samcheong-dong, Korea.
The Ludlow Project
(Youtube Direktludlow, via core77)
Schönes Projekt des International Printing Museum in Kalifornien. Die wollen alte Schriftmatritzen aus dem Ludlow Schriftsatzsystem retten und finanzieren sich das grade per Kickstarter:
We here at the International Printing Museum seek to rescue a collection of approximately 100 full fonts of antique Ludlow Typecasting matrices, catalog & organize the fonts into our working collection & digitize Ludlow Type Specimen books with notes on available fonts for letterpress projects. Along with the Museum’s other metal, wood type fonts, these matrices will be available for casting type to be used by museum patrons, graphic designers & letterpress printers nationally for all kinds of projects including letterpress poster and business card printing, invitation and greeting card printing projects and creative jewelry making and art projects.
Making of Novum Mags Multicolored Papercraft-Cover
Die Novum gehörte für mich früher zu meiner monatlichen Pflichtlektüre, als ich noch ausschließlich Grafiker und Typograph war, immer wieder ganz hochwertig gedruckt, auf variierendem Papier und der Content ist immer äußert geschmackssicher und zeitlos. Und mit dem Cover der November-Ausgabe haben sie mich mal wieder ziemlich beeindruckt, das Making-Of-Video ist reinster Print-Porn.
(Vimeo Direkt, via We like that)
Ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt von Paperlux (Konzeption, Kreation), der printarena (Druck und Stanzung), Jürgen Jeurink (Stanzform) sowie der EMAG Papierveredelungs GmbH (Kaschierung). Das perfekte Material für diese spannende Umsetzung stellte Iggesund mit dem Karton Invercote Creato (280 g/qm).
In 48.000 Druckdurchgängen und mit 140 Stanzschnitten pro Heft versehen, entstanden sechs verschiedenfarbige Coverversionen ohne erneute Plattenbelichtung. Das Ergebnis? Ein Cover, das sich zu geometrischen dreidimensionalen Figuren formen läßt und damit zum Spielen einlädt.
Löschpapier Halftone Printer
(Vimeo Direktblotter, via )
Schönes Projekt von Paul Ferragut, der eine auf Löschpapier basierende Druckmaschine gebaut hat.
The time print device uses blotting paper with Letraset felt-pen. The felt-pen ink bleed in the paper for a duration relative to the grey value of a pixel. Every “time stain” gradually recreates any images in a pointilist style.
This machine functions in a similar way to a CNC machine, with an incorporated program to print any image using a time-based algorithm. According to the grey value of a pixel on an image, the felt pen remains in contact with the blotting paper for relative periods of time. Consequently the ink will bleed through the paper creating a variety of different sized stains, gradually building the image.
It can takes around 34 hours to print one colour image. The slow printing process and the imperfections we obtain every time is what makes every print unique.
Bookmarks for July 28th: Pandamix, Vintage Australian Lithographs, Mister Cartoon @ the MOCA
Australian Landscapes: 1860s lithographs of Australian bush scenes by EV Guérard accompanied by excerpts of turgid hyperbole served with saccharine verbiage.
Selected: Selected is a series of animated gifs where Mike Guppy replaced the main character with an marching ants outline.
Pandamix Vol. 06 – Clearly It Is Summer 320k by MassNerder on SoundCloud
Space Trek: the quiet despair of the Starship Enterprise
Mister Cartoon : Art In The Streets on Vimeo: Mister Cartoon talks about his artwork in Moca's Art In The Streets Show.
Kosmonautenkult in der DDR – YouTube
Dangerous Minds | Freddie Mercury’s eyeball jumpsuit
Unbound: The Crowdfunding Cargo Cult – Telegraph Blogs: Cargo cult thinking in technology products might have worked in the past, when customers really didn’t know any better and you could overwhelm them with slick marketing campaigns, but things are different now, thanks to online reviews and word-of-mouth. Yet they still try, wasting millions and millions on modern-day equivalents of wooden radar towers, or rather, yet more iPhone and iPad imitators.
Marvelous Destroyers: The Fungus-Farming Beetles | Wired Science | Wired.com: Witness the spread of so-called bark and ambrosia beetles, a collection of 7000 species whose expansion beyond their native ranges threatens trees around the world.It's not the beetles' fault, of course. They've simply happened upon a brilliant life strategy: Rather than eating bark, which tends to be full of toxins produced by trees to discourage predation, they eat fungus that eats bark. It's one of the animal kingdom's greatest and most unappreciated symbioses.
All The Beatles’ albums in sixty one minutes: Steve McLaughlin’s “Run For Your Life” takes all of the Beatles’ officially released UK albums and compresses them into 61 minutes by speeding them up 800%. The result is trippy, maddening and at times quite beautiful. Of course, it would be impossible to do anything to the Beatles music without slivers of beauty jutting out here and there.
McLaughlin’s Beatles methy mix has been wedded to video excerpts from Bollywood and Lollywood films in addition to fragments of documentaries, experimental films, fractals and animation.
Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations – YouTube: Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities — that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and corporations.
"Moveable Type" Offers Letterpress Classes Out Of A Truck | Co. Design: Designer Kyle Durrie is bringing the joys of old-school graphic design to people across the country, one town at a time.
Online commenting: the age of rage | Technology | The Observer: The worldwide web has made critics of us all. But with commenters able to hide behind a cloak of anonymity, the blog and chatroom have become forums for hatred and bile
