Posts tagged print
SWYP: See What You Print (by Artefact)
Happy to see innovation in this space. I like the concept: instead of fiddling with an abstract set of options in dialog boxes on your PC or (worse) a handheld device, SWYP gives you a more representative, content-focused interface.
Sweethearts, the seminal concrete poetry piece by Emmett Williams is back in print! A founding member of Fluxus and the concrete poetry movement, Williams made several performances and poems that stand today as defining gems of those genres. Sweethearts is an anagrammatic erotic encounter between a “he” and a “she,” whose entire vocabulary is derived from the word “sweethearts.” The letters maintain the same spacing in every word on each page, lending the volume a flipbook dimension that Williams enhances by organizing the text to read backwards, so that the reader can flip the book with her or his left hand (thus the front cover is on the back, and vice versa).
Spread photo by Rob Giampietro. Text details from John Philips’ Concrete Poetry page.
This shield allows you to connect a HP C6602 inkjet cartridge to your Arduino turning it into a 96dpi print platform. It only uses 5 pins which can be jumper selected to avoid other shields. It is designed with a Arduino Mega footprint but fully supports both the Arduino and the Arduino Mega. It is designed with all through-hole components to make assembly easy even for beginners.
Can’t wait to get mine.
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.
These days, making things with paper and ink — the slow, messy, old fashioned way — is often relegated to a nostalgic niche. But recently we’ve seen some amazing projects, from art to publishing to performance, that take these old materials and use them in ways that are completely new…
