5.21.2009
Final Project
My final project is a hand sewn book with images of the web. The idea to make in digital, tangible. Take something fleeting and make it special an permanent. Picture to come (when its not 5 a.m...................)
Printer Experiment
So, In holding to the paper/pixel image theme, i did an experimental print out. My first print out was just a tiled image of a printer (i figured a printer is what unites paper and digital together).
The second image i pixelated in going with the theme (sorry about the miss paper, it is M.I.A. also apologies for the overall crappyness)
I didn't find this experiment to be very successful and after talking with Rebecca, I am going in a different route for my final project.
Some more thoughts.
Upon reflecting on this project, its pretty amazing how much it has developed and changed. My original question was, "Will paper become obsolete?" and has twisted and turned into something so different. My final research and experiments more so reflected the relationship that paper and digital medias have. Digital medias have definitely replaced paper in many ways, in some ways, their competition encourages the other to be better (figuratively speaking). Today, in such a an advanced digital age, paper and printing industries must highlight the value and special qualities that paper can offer, embossing, special inks, paper weight and finish. Especially in the art community, there are many companies and people that strive to make their paper creation, all the more special and ironically it is sometimes done through digital technologies.
No one can deny that the digital age makes so many things easier and more efficient. Paper does have a place in the modern world but just a very different one than before, and because the digital age evolves so rapidly it is difficult to pinpoint exactly what that is.
As i was researching places to get my project printed, i searched "Kinkos London". Ahhh kinkos, my dear friend. As annoying as they may sometimes be, they feel so familiar and safe to me. And the fact that they are international makes living here in london slightly less scary a foreign. But alas, what do i see? i strange post where the London kinkos store locator used to be.
"FedEx Kinko's has sold its five UK locations to Printing Investments Limited, trading as "The Color Company". The five FedEx Kinko's outlets, four in central London and one in Reading, will be rebranded under the The Color Company banner – please see www.color.co.uk."
My trusty printing place was no more. i couldn't even believe it. not more that a month or two earlier i had just printed a project with their trustyy self service printing. The foreigner part inside me was suddenly terrified. Kinkos UK clearly could survive the current recession where only the bare minimums are allowed for large companies. This closure is clearly a sign of the time and the digital era, maybe people don't really need so many things printed anymore.
So my search continued, i then turned to service point, which was slightly more familiar as i had been there once or twice before to get films printed for silk screenings. As it was already 9PM i went straight for the 24hr service point of tottenham court road. But once again, an unfamiliar error. "This location has moved", my heart sank even further. Trusty old 24hr service point was no longer running from that location, and while luckily not all the service points had closed, it was another case of cutting the fluff and getting down to the bare minimum. It is undeniable that the paper business is changing and who knows if it can run as fast as digital era, it definitely has some catching up to do.
No one can deny that the digital age makes so many things easier and more efficient. Paper does have a place in the modern world but just a very different one than before, and because the digital age evolves so rapidly it is difficult to pinpoint exactly what that is.
As i was researching places to get my project printed, i searched "Kinkos London". Ahhh kinkos, my dear friend. As annoying as they may sometimes be, they feel so familiar and safe to me. And the fact that they are international makes living here in london slightly less scary a foreign. But alas, what do i see? i strange post where the London kinkos store locator used to be.
"FedEx Kinko's has sold its five UK locations to Printing Investments Limited, trading as "The Color Company". The five FedEx Kinko's outlets, four in central London and one in Reading, will be rebranded under the The Color Company banner – please see www.color.co.uk."
My trusty printing place was no more. i couldn't even believe it. not more that a month or two earlier i had just printed a project with their trustyy self service printing. The foreigner part inside me was suddenly terrified. Kinkos UK clearly could survive the current recession where only the bare minimums are allowed for large companies. This closure is clearly a sign of the time and the digital era, maybe people don't really need so many things printed anymore.
So my search continued, i then turned to service point, which was slightly more familiar as i had been there once or twice before to get films printed for silk screenings. As it was already 9PM i went straight for the 24hr service point of tottenham court road. But once again, an unfamiliar error. "This location has moved", my heart sank even further. Trusty old 24hr service point was no longer running from that location, and while luckily not all the service points had closed, it was another case of cutting the fluff and getting down to the bare minimum. It is undeniable that the paper business is changing and who knows if it can run as fast as digital era, it definitely has some catching up to do.
5.20.2009
Yale Degree Show 2006
During my meeting with Rebecca, she showed me the wonder that was the Yale graphic design Dept. Degree show in 2006. The entire show was created/printed on 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of papers (about a4 for you british folk) and the effect it created was just amazing.
It kind of creates a sort a pixelated type effect, referencing computer yet created with paper. a sort of digital tangibility.
Ive decided im going to go with this sort of concept to create something for my final project.
Some progress
Was stressing intensely over the weekend and the following days over what to create to sum up my whole process. However after talking with Rebecca today, i have definitely progressed with the project.Basically i want to somehow connect the digital with the tangible. Rebecca asked me what it is i like about paper, and i concluded that it is the tangibility of it, the look the smell the feel of it. I am an extremely visual learner and i think it helps even more when an object is actually in 3 dimension in front of me, rather than 2 on a screen. In this crazy head of mine i am connecting reality with paper and fiction with media technologies and computers. I mean computers are basically magic machines that can pretty much create anything that you think of; things that don't exist in real life.
So, i think the objective of this final design piece is to make the digital tangible.
So anyways, Rebecca pointed me towards a few more things for visual references she showed me first Hektor, which if i spray can hooked up to a computer attached to screens that makes graffiti art. Its basically performance art by a computer. I downloaded their Hektor book and realy liked this image
Once again, Little things making big things. The whole image is created with lines, with an appearance similar to pixels.
little things to make a big
I Found this on some advertising blog and its a wonderful concept. The image is created with drill holes (presumably with the drill they are advertising) and i think that ad is so solid. It connections form and function and is simple and straightforward, but brilliant at the same time.
Also the idea of using "lots of little things to create a big thing" has been a recurring pattern in my design process (i am just now noticing), 2 specifically come to mind. Also my obsession with repetition and patterns might have something to do with this design scheme that i keep returning to.
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