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In a nod to the political posters as a form of public discourse Rome is full of many official and seemingly unsupervised locations to hang them. These poster spots often have a layers and layers of posters in various stages of decay. All of the posters I had a chance to see looked to be slickly produced numbers, probably designed by a particular campaign, candidate or party.
Continue reading Dispatches from Rome: Public Display of Graphics
(Image: Richter and Lipson) Researchers Hod Lipson and Charlie Richter at Cornell University have developed a tiny flying robot using the principals of insect flight and a 3-d printer. The Pentagon’s Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is no doubt salivating, at this exciting new development. According to the New Scientist, DARPA, “has said it wants a 10-gram aircraft with a 7.5-centimetre wingspan that can explore caves and other hiding places, relaying GPS data and images to base.” That’s right, the next war won’t be televised, it will be printed. More from the New Scientist post:
Sorry about that lazy, lazy, lazy headline. Printing with blood is not a new concept, but somehow it seems to be in fashion this summer. There’s this concert poster printed with blood:
And then there’s this book printed with the artist’s own blood:
The first is for a Swedish band, the second for a Dutch author. It’s a European blood-printing frenzy!
The Artist team Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker have been busy wrapping the entire future site of the Whitney Downtown location a cascading collage that will soon cover the whole site. The pair represents the first of three commissions by the museum that will inhabit the site. Tauba Auerbach and Barbra Krueger will each have a crack at it next. Here’s the Whitney’s description of the commissions:
Giant fruit, stripes and fruit, what’s not to like? For more information, check out the New Yorker and NYTimes articles about the project.
Grain and Gram has an interview with Nick Sambrato, who runs Mama’s Sauce print shop in Orlando. The piece is festooned with fine photos of oily aprons, and Sambrato has some interesting things to say about his passion for print. On letterpress equipment vs. digital equipment, an astute reference to pop cinema:
On offset printing vs. digital printing, another reference to pop cinema that’s slightly less astute, but still delightful:
The prolific Weiki Somers is an artist/designer who, in collaboration with Dylan Van Den Berg, form Studio Weiki Somers. Some of her recent work has caught the media’s attention. These pieces are constructed out of human ashes that have been run through a 3-D printer to create sculpture that combines objects of mundane consumer life with moments of sublime nature. Beyond the creepy/beautiful factor, what is Somers pointing to with this loaded conceptual work? Here is a quote from the designer:
Curious and compelling work that asks many more questions than it answers.
Anne Lindeboom (b. 1920, d. 1984)
John Steegman (b. 1939, d. 1985)
Pietertje Vos (b. 1942, d. 2007) via Fast Company
If I were asked why Printeresting doesn’t produce an actual printed publication, beyond the obvious reasons (no resources), I would say that we don’t need to: a great magazine showcasing good art and modeling clever printing already exists. That magazine is called ESOPUS. And here is a review of their onolicious current issue.
Many more detailed images after the jump.
It’s nice to know that someone is out there doing the good work of making screwball printing machines for a mobile digital age. In this case, it’s designer Jinhee Kim whose concept design for a digital camera rubber stamp you see here. His idea was first given internet fame via the magazine. All he needs is the venture capital.. unfortunately the Printeresting hedge fund (Prnty on the NasDaq Exchange) is fresh out of green backs. Here is what Yanko has to say about this device:
More design concept images after the jump. (via gizmodo) Summer in Baltimore is gross, people! The weather here is just awful. But no matter how much I enjoy my window-unit AC, I always venture out of the house for Baltimore’s annual Pile of Craft show (which is organized by the thriving Charm City Craft Mafia). Too many friends, too much good work, too little time! This year it was especially important to see Friend of Printeresting Kyle Van Horn working in support of his new project, Baltimore Print Studios. This fall, BPS will open its doors as the only public-access print shop in Baltimore, and KVH was on the scene pulling prints to raise awareness.
This new print space will fill a gaping hole in Baltimore’s arts community. We can’t wait. Kyle is also selling these great screenprint/letterpress posters in support of this much-needed resource:
You can follow the development of the new space here. Wish him luck. Printers Unite! Eric Fuertes, who is currently a graduate student in sculpture at Northern Illinois University, sent us this new video of his Dumbo Printing Press (which you may have seen before here). Warning: this video features a musical soundtrack that some readers may find objectionable! 
Ha Ha! Just kidding about the music; everybody loves that song! This is Fuertes’ UFO/skateboard printing press: 
Eric has entered the “Pepsi Refresh” grant competition, and is seeking funding to take this show on the road with a series of public print workshops. You can vote for his project here. |
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