On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 15:10 -0400, Kyle Baker wrote: > Hi Design Friends, > In the last email I was inspired by the project name Laughlin and the phrase ' The whole is more than the sum of its parts.' I saw this as an opportunity to push the visual concept of cut and paste. Replication of the same simple shape to make a very complex design. How far can you push it. Something as simple as a line can be pushed pretty far. Here are some links: > > http://ffffound.com/image/f66c6f2b56f058f65f07de831ff41764c7a9d726 This one reminds me of a Tara Donovan piece I saw last year at the Boston ICA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnpham/3026572232/ http://lookintomyowl.com/images/tara_donovan-untitled.jpg http://www.artadox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Eye-grabbing-sculpture-by-Tara-Donovan.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/kstrahmx/3784886047/ She basically took these long, long plastic/film sheets and dumped them in a glass box... it has a similar effect. A lot of her pieces are one type of ordinary household kind-of objects repeated many times to make striking single objects: Plastic cups: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lartelove/126162356/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/marklogan/115245668/ Scotch tape: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tlc0471/2974727644/ Pins: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/338686535/ ~m _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
