If You Could : Print Series : October 2008
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If You Could : Print Series : October 2008
October 08, 2008
Category: design, edition
Tags: edition, geometry, moon, poster, structure, utopia
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A Graphic Designer Puts Print on Demand Through Its Paces
A Graphic Designer Puts Print on Demand Through Its Paces
A report on the UnderConsideration blog outlines a fascinating experiment called Dear Lulu. From the blog coverage:
This past July, fourteen students attended a two-day workshop at Germany’s Hochschule Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences with Prof. Frank Philippin and London-based designer James Goggin. The brief, as explained by Goggin:
“My plan for the workshop is to investigate the visible and tangible parameters of graphic design — type specimens, halftone screens and, in particular, colour tests and calibration charts — and make a book of our own self-produced tests which we will send to print on Friday afternoon using the online print-on-demand system Lulu. The book project will therefore act as a colour/type/pattern test of the very system with which it is produced. “Print-on-demand” is an increasingly important production system which can serve to make us designers rethink the impact our profession has on the environment and to question the often wasteful print volumes and production methods requested of us by our clients. Graphic designers, and especially students, have a chance to use and subvert these relatively new (and fairly cheap) technological systems to our advantage.”
The result of the workshop is Dear Lulu, a fantastic and imaginative resource that puts digital printing to the test through a Do-It-Yourself presentation that fits right in with philosophy of print on demand that makes it such an alluring proposition for designers looking to publish with little financial risk and with pretty decent results in return.
The report is not only a fascinating analysis of how far Print on Demand has come, but also a great tool for evaluating printers in general, as the output of the process is a book designed to stress the capabilities of any printer. As Amrita Chandra wrote on twitter in response to my post there, “what is great is you can send the book to other printers for comparison.”
Food for thought for research firms: what if the output of a research firm were not just a report but a tool for putting a company’s own systems through its paces, evaluating against the standards outlined in the report?
(via O’Reilly Radar – Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.)
September 01, 2008
Category: edition, electronic culture, graphic design
Tags: book, edition, graphic design, print on demand, printing, producing, publishing
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Colophon events this week
There are a couple of Colophon-related events in Europe this week. First up, Andrew Losowsky – that’s him above next to a copy of IsNotMagazine – has curated an exhibition of magazines as objects in Milan. CR Blog has an in-depth report with details – it sounds great, lots of magazine-y-ness. Andrew’s comments here.
Meanwhile, Mike Koedinger has put together an exhibition of magazines as part of Vienna’s 8 Festival for Fashion and Photography, where this year’s theme is ‘Magazine Culture’ (nice title!). I’ll be joining Mike out there tomorrow to give the opening talk, and hope to post some pictures from the event later this week.
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(via magCulture.com.)
June 03, 2008
Category: Feature, edition
Tags: curation, edition, event, exhibition, magazine, print, publishing
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2007: Things of the Year #5
Protein’s [protein.co.uk] packaging for their Daft Punk’s debut film, Electroma [electroma.org] turns the DVD case into a hard bound picture book. No plastics involved, just a bit of glue.(Via boicozine.)
January 11, 2008
Category: electronic culture
Tags: daftpunk, dvd, edition, film, object, robot
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Robotic ‘pack mule’ displays stunning reflexes
New Scientist Robotic ‘pack mule’ displays stunning reflexes – Breaking News
A nimble, four-legged robot is so surefooted it can recover its balance even after being given a hefty kick. The machine, which moves like a cross between a goat and a pantomime horse, is being developed as a robotic pack mule for the US military.
BigDog is described by its developers Boston Dynamics as %u201Cthe most advanced quadruped robot on Earth%u201D. The company have released a new video of the robot negotiating steep slopes, crossing rocky ground and dealing with the sharp kick. View the impressive clip here (28MB Windows media file).
[tags]robotic, walk, movement, electronic, physic, sensor, robot, 4 legs,[/tags]
March 08, 2006
Category: technology
Tags: , 4 legs, edition, electronic, movement, physic, robot, robotic, sensor, snow, tsunamis, walk
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sexymachinery
December 23, 2004
Category: architecture, art, design, edition, fashion, graphic design
Tags: abake, architecture, art, culture, design, edition, magazine
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