Posts tagged inspiration
‘water calligraphy device’ by canada-born, beijing-based media artist nicholas hanna reinterprets the chinese tradition of using a water brush to write poetry in public spaces by transforming a flat-bead tricycle into a poetry-writing device.
Ink Calendar designed by Oscar Diaz. The ink will slowly color each day of the month as time passes by.
I like how the bottle of ink is labeled with the month.
Venezuelan artist Pedro Morales relies on his MakerBot Cupcake extensively for his new installation, De Redes and Cadenas, using it to transform brief poems by Rafael Cadenas into sculptures made up of machine-readable cyphers such as QR codes and Microsoft Tag.
chronotape - basic functions (by Peter Bennett)
Chronotape is a tangible timeline for family history research.
Ritornell for Musicbox (by Ritornell)
If it isn’t clear from the video, this is a business card. Lovely.
“A Systematic Approach to Interactive Visualization”
One thing about Bret Victor: he doesn’t go in for halfway measures. You really have to get your hands on this thing and play with it.
“Banksy of the Book Art World” (via Amelia)
Last month, the book art piece above was found at the National Library of Scotland. It was the fourth piece found since March in a book-friendly location in Scotland. All reference or are devised from the work of Scottish mystery writer Ian Rankin and include a note professing some book love.
The Notepad looks like an everyday yellow legal pad of paper, however each line of each page of the notepad is constructed of micro-printed text and contains the personal details of Iraqi civilian casualties. Each printed edition of 100 notepads is covertly distributed to the United States Congress. Once in circulation on Capital Hill each notepad then acts as a Trojan horse - slipping the unwanted and unacknowledged civilian body count data into official governmental archives.
The Notepad is a project created by SWAMP (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production), it just was installed in the Talk to Me exhibition at the MoMa.
“Notepad” is an act of protest and commemoration disguised as a stack of ordinary yellow legal pads. Each ruled line, when magnified, is revealed to be microprinted text enumerating the full names, dates, and locations of each Iraqi civilian death on record over the first three years of the Iraq War. A printed edition of 100 notepads, was covertly distributed to US representatives and senators, as a sort of Trojan horse, injecting transgressive data straight into the halls of power and memorializing it in official archives.
Carlos Vilardebo’s 1961 film of Alexander Calder’s “circus”, an intricately assembled performance piece played out by handmade characters including jugglers, sword swallowers, clowns, and animals.
Fermid by Behnaz Babazadeh is a kinetic sculpture that uses technology and parametric design principles to explore the natural movement that can be found in living organisms.
Loose Leaf is a new publication by Manual that features large-format printed art works. What’s unique about it is that each edition comes packaged ready to be installed on your wall. The publication is unbound and each piece is hole-punched allowing you to easily display it on a wall with small pushpins. Pretty neat.
Via AisleOne.
Clever, beautiful.
Check out the video from the main site:
Published twice a year, Loose Leaf intends to present images in a physical, livable form, a distinct departure from the online consumption of visual material that pervades our lives.
(emphasis mine)
I love the term “livable” to describe the concept. One day, screens may become so cheap and pervasive that you can casually hang a digital artwork on your wall and leave it. Until then, this kind of design is clearly one thing print can do better.
More like this, please.
