Book Without Paper

This is my book without paper. It’s steel plates that have had corners drilled through and fastened with a screw.
I stained them purple and wrote in silver marker the rearranged lyrics to The Birthday Massacre song Movie.

The only real problem with it is that I could have been more careful with the alignment of the text. I have poor handwriting and if I’d taken more care in making it straight and even, etc. it would have been so much better.

Article: Color and Ingredients

I found several interesting articles today from Wired.com about color and ingredients of paint. Did you know that glossy magazines can be slightly radioactive?

Neil Harbisson was never a fan of Mark Rothko. Or any abstract artist for that matter. Harbisson’s extreme color blindness – a congenital condition called achromatopsia – dulled even great works based on shape and tone rather than pictoral image.But now his life – and his art – have been transformed by a device called the Eyeborg, which enables him to perceive color by sound, and to – quite literally – “compose” paintings (see his self-portrait, right, and others here). Read the article…

When infant eyes absorb a world of virgin visions, colors are processed purely, in a pre-linguistic parts of the brain. As adults, colors are processed in the brain’s language centers, refracted by the concepts we have for them. Read the article…

Water
Paleolithic cave dwellers mixed clay pigments with spit and urine to create the first paint. The basic tech hasn’t changed — we still mix pigments with a liquid binder. Of course, these days most of us slap the stuff on in a uniform coat rather than hand-draw bison on the walls of our three-bedroom colonials. Read the article…

Article: Logo Design Trends 2008

Here’s an article I found on Logo Design Trends for this year. I thought it was pretty interesting, and after watching design for a bit over the past couple of years, I totally agree. Read the article

Take a look at the logo designs above. What’s your first reaction? They bowl you over and leave you speechless – and somewhat confused don’t they?

These logos don’t have beautiful shapes, shadows, mirrored reflections, warm colors, or icons that signify something; they look like the result of some kid playing around mindlessly. So why would anyone wish to have such a logo?

The explanation is simple: this type of logo design is very different and will definitely stand out by sheer reason of being totally different. But if we look back to the 80′s which was a period of strange geometric shapes and neon colors – these types of logos came about and earned the reputation of spearheading the invasion of “cute logos”.

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Article: Eco-friendly Color!

Going green is fashionable, but dyeing our clothes has remained a decidedly eco-unfriendly practice. Now, British scientists have developed a way to grow harmless algae to add color to fabric and paint.The algae, called diatoms, are single-celled organisms that are unique because they pack iridescent shells. The hard silica shells act like crystals — depending on the configuration of the holes in the shell, the color changes. The perception of color is maintained without altering the chemical composition of fabric, which is a fundamentally different way of producing color. Alexis Madrigal

A few months ago I came upon an article on wired.com that was about the creation of eco-friendly dyes. I’ve been thinking about it lately and thinking about how great it’d be to be able to do artwork with eco-friendly materials, so I went back and dug up the article for you viewing pleasure.

Read the whole article here.

ACEO’s and ATC’s

Some of you may or may not care, but I will be offering some Art Cards for both sale and trade. The first three of my available cards will be based on these three prints:

• Barong I – a nice black and white design that could appeal to many.
• Untitled and Alone – a slightly creepier piece that seemed to be well received.
• Chaotic Paradise – a personal favorite of mine.

There will be 15 of each of these cards. Some I will only sell, others I will be willing to trade, but the numbers are TBD.

On a side note. If you don’t know what Art Cards are but you love to collect and look at all kinds of artwork, I highly recommend you check the subject out. It’s a great concept!