prosthetic knowledge
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Print by Jan Vantomme
Image was generated with Processing coding, engraved with a lasercutter onto a polyester plate, printed by hand.
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YOU ARE HERE
Customized maps with screen-printed overlay indicating your location.
Hand screen printed posters titled ‘You are Here’. Using old and new maps, the desired location is centered and screen printed, offering unique and varied designs.
To purchase your own bespoke print buy it hereMore photos of process and examples can be found at Matt MacGregorglen’s website, where you can order your own
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MODERN DEFENSE IS ELECTRONIC
Transitron Ad from October 1960. Designed by Chermayeff & Geismar (confirmed by an issue of Idea, a Japanese graphic design magazine)
Via bustbright
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Han Solo by hollisbrownthornton
acrylic on canvas
30 x 26 inches
hbt11-07
2011
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ASCII Art from 1740 (via Notes For Bibliophiles)
Taken from ‘Analog ASCII’:
… the idea of building up an image from individual letters and other characters is much older than the computer …
Christian Gessner’s Die so nöthig als nützliche Buchdruckerkunst und Schriftgiessery (1740-1745) is a manual of printing, copiously illustrated with copperplate engravings (including an impressive depiction of a printing shop) and other images, like this fold-out depiction of cathedral spires (with apologies for the poor scan) [Image 1]
If you look closely, you’ll notice that in this case the method of illustration is not engraving; instead the image is composed (literally) entirely of typographical ornaments. That means that every section of every line is probably the imprint of a single piece of type.
This Spanish broadside, printed in Valencia [Image 2], dates from slightly later in the century but it follows the same principle. The most clever touch, in my opinion, is the use of two “O”s for windows in the upper area of the tower.
More information, including high definition photographs of the images above where you really see each individual character, can be seen at the Notes For Bibliophiles post.
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Ronaldo by The Human Printer
Hand-Made Reproductions of Images in Half-Tone Using Felt-Tip Pens:
Unlike any other printer the human printer creates unique, individual images each time it prints. Following the same process as a digital printer, the human printer generates the printed product by hand. Throughout the printing process the human printer assumes the role of the machine and is therefore controlled and restricted by the process of using CMYK halftones created on the computer.
To see a video of the process in action, and more information, goto:
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Year of the Monkey Postcards via ephemera assemblyman
Above: The Monkey Celebrating with Ozoni of New Year’s cards, unknown artist, 1932
Japanese Postcards from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts … all related to the Year of the Monkey (
).All the postcards in this post range from the years 1908 to 1932, and the design is much more contemporary than you may originally think.
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How to Make a Salt Print via Dulce Photography
Alternative method for creating photographic prints - the first step requires table salt and water (but you will need Silver Nitrate and other chemicals later):
One of the classes I’m taking this semester is called Contemporary Photography, a class where we learn lots of alternative printing processes (same class I made Mr. Pinhole for). Well, I was recently assigned to teach and give the class a demonstration on the Salted Paper Process, or salt prints. I figured, why not share this information with all of you? … It’s actually quite simple, and something you can do from your own home! All it takes is a little table salt and a few chemicals…
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The Art of Solar Printing via Yanko Design
Design concept piece for a solar-powered printer that doesn’t use ink cartridges, instead uses sunlight to ‘tan’ information onto paper:
It’s here in concept and I simply love it! The Tanning Printer is a solar powered printer that doesn’t use cartridges. Instead it uses the process of sun-tanning the paper! You got that right sir…sun tan! It seems outlandish right now, but trust me the idea is worth exploring… the design is here, it looks neat and sleek; now let the engineers figure it out!
Designers: Hosung Jung, Junsang Kim, Seungin Lee & Yonggu Do -
Tricycle Water Calligraphy via Danwei
A bike that ‘prints’ Chinese characters on the ground with water
Water calligraphy is a poetic activity that you can observe in many Chinese parks: Artists use a large brush to write Chinese characters using water instead of ink. Minutes after the characters are written, they disappear.
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Machine Knitting a Cosby Sweater by CRAFT via Adafruit Industries
Andrew has hacked a knitting machine from the 80s so that it can be used as a knitting printer:
Andrew Salomone uses a hacked knitting machine from the 80s to “print” digital images into knitted garments. At World Maker Faire New York 2011, Andrew demonstrates the knitting machine and shows off its creations including a sweater with Bill Cosby’s face.
He also created a scarf based on the representation of a music sample, the Amen Break, which he can now ‘loop’ around his neck!
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A printmaking project with a conceptual process of degrading images:
These custom prints depict color swapped realities of common spaces and their objects- the colors from one person’s space were replaced with the colors from another person’s space. The resolutions were inspired by a painting process used by my father who creates different sized grids on canvas to facilitate the act of accurately reproducing a photographic image, block-by-block.
About the Process:
-Colors are deduced to 12 possibilities.
-Colors from one image are replaced with those of the same scene from another person’s image.
-Print separations are made from each of the 12 colors, with different resolutions.
-Each color/resolution is printed separately with a pigment inkjet printer. There are around 12 printings on each piece of paper.More information of the process + other examples of the set can be found here
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The Geometric Landscape via BibliOdyssey
Scans from a 16th Century book on geometry
The artist responsible for the remarkable collection of geometric designs seen above and below is Lorenz Stöer (c.1537-c.1621), about whom little is known with certainty. He was born in Nuremberg and moved to Augsburg in 1557. He is variously described as a painter and a draughtsman and he may have been the son of a woodcut artist.
Until relatively recently, Stöer’s principal legacy was thought to have been the eleven woodcut illustrations seen above that show combinations of regular and semi-regular solids in landscapes with fanciful ornamental shapes. This suite of eccentric designs was published under the title, ‘Geometria et Perspectiva’, in 1567.More information and images can be found here
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Woodblock Print by HQDee (via neochaEDGE)
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![Chikanobu Woodblock Prints via Bibliodyssey
So hard just to choose one as an example from this post - all are good …
Above: Wang Pou (Oho) visits a grave during a storm
Wangpou was so diligent about calming his mother’s fear of lightning that even after her death, he would go to her tomb during a rainstorm to comfort her. By contrast, this modern woman, caught in a summer downpour, seems unconcerned by the thunder. To further emphasize the contemporary setting, Chikanobu includes a rikshaw, a new mode of transportation in 19th century Tokyo. [1890]
More great stuff to be found here](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqg727XPeN1qav3uso1_1280.jpg)
Chikanobu Woodblock Prints via Bibliodyssey
So hard just to choose one as an example from this post - all are good …
Above: Wang Pou (Oho) visits a grave during a storm
Wangpou was so diligent about calming his mother’s fear of lightning that even after her death, he would go to her tomb during a rainstorm to comfort her. By contrast, this modern woman, caught in a summer downpour, seems unconcerned by the thunder. To further emphasize the contemporary setting, Chikanobu includes a rikshaw, a new mode of transportation in 19th century Tokyo. [1890]
More great stuff to be found here
