Not sure if the average Printeresting reader normally follows the Tour de France but here’s something that might peak your interest in competitive cycling. This year Nike has employed mobile printing technology to share inspiring messages on the road. From Random Pattern…

Built by DeepLocal and StandardRobot in partnership with Nike and Wieden+Kennedy, Chalkbot is [...]]]>

Not sure if the average Printeresting reader normally follows the Tour de France but here’s something that might peak your interest in competitive cycling. This year Nike has employed mobile printing technology to share inspiring messages on the road. From Random Pattern…

Built by DeepLocal and StandardRobot in partnership with Nike and Wieden+Kennedy, Chalkbot is like a giant self-contained pneumatic dot matrix printer that is mounted to a trailer pulled by a truck and can print messages and graphics of varying types on the road. Users can submit their own inspirational messages by Tweeting them @chalkbot, texting “LIVESTRONG,” followed by your message, to 36453 or directly at the official Chalkbot website.

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We’ve seen some projects like this before, most notably Josh Kinsburg’s bikesagainstbush, but in terms of scale, polish and interactivity (albeit mediated), this seems to take it to a new level.

(Thanks, Luther.)

There’s this concert poster printed with blood:

And then there’s this book printed with the artist’s own blood:

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The first is for a Swedish band, the second [...]]]> 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:

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The first is for a Swedish band, the second for a Dutch author. It’s a European blood-printing frenzy!

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Eck was a rare fix of graphic art in what felt like a sea of refined, representational oil painting. He [...]]]> These posters were all over 798 Arts District in Beijing. Graphically, they stood out from a lot of the other street ads so I followed them to  Stefan Eck’s exhibition, Raw, at the Pickled Art Center.

Eck was a rare fix of graphic art in what felt like a sea of refined, representational oil painting. He was hanging out the gallery when I passed through so I got a chance to talk for a while. He hails originally from France though he’s something of a nomad having spent the last ten years living in Canada, Germany, Japan, and now China. His work seems to take its cues from a range of sources from underground comics to various modern art -isms. It was the tension between the different influences that made the work dynamic.  “Raw” seemed like a well-chosen title.

When you’re done looking at the pictures here, you should go spend some time on Eck’s website.

I have to admit this relief print was my favorite piece in the show- without the outlines the colors and shapes really come together.

Eck was using the gallery as a studio; when I stopped by he was working on some new designs on his laptop. It was nice to actually find the artist hanging out in the space with his work. While the work does speak for itself, meeting the person behind it adds a refreshing human element to the gallery experience.

For the moment, this is my last post for Printeresting’s Dispatches from China series though I’m hopeful that we’ll have a Friend of Printeresting guest post to add to the series before the end of summer.

When I saw Inception, I was distracted by several scenes that took place in an abandoned print shop. These screengrabs (from the movie’s trailer) don’t show much of it, but there’s a lot more in the film:

Trust me, there’s some printing [...]]]> The summer’s hottest blockbuster is Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, of TV’s “Growing Pains.”

When I saw Inception, I was distracted by several scenes that took place in an abandoned print shop. These screengrabs (from the movie’s trailer) don’t show much of it, but there’s a lot more in the film:

Trust me, there’s some printing stuff in there.

The characters don’t use the print shop, they just sit there and explain the movie’s internal logic to each other. You can ignore the expository dialogue, and focus on the printing equipment, because this movie is actually about car chases, gun fights, and flying buildings.

Apparently the equipment was all on loan from the International Printing Museum in Carson, California. You can download this PDF to read Mark Barbour’s article about the Museum’s exploits in the film industry.

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 [...]]]>

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:

Each artist will produce a temporary artwork encompassing the site, by working with printed vinyl and demountable decals that will be attached to the perimeter fence and other structures within it. In selecting the participants, the Museum’s curatorial team specifically chose artists in whose work digital printing and graphic imagery plays a fundamental role. Each installation will remain on view for approximately six to seven weeks from early May through mid-October, a period timed to coincide with the High Line’s busy summer season.

Giant fruit, stripes and fruit, what’s not to like?

For more information, check out the New Yorker and NYTimes articles about the project.

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(thanks to KVH for the tip)