Ideas for Map Relief Assignments

Rachel Jenkins

Manchester School of Architecture

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Pratt University Student

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Karen Margolis

Sam Kaplan, Photographer, American

The artist uses sticks of gum. Students can be inspired by these designs when building with paper or wood. 

If you ask photographer Sam Kaplan for a stick of gum, you might not get what you expect. In his new photo series Unwrapped, the New-York based photographer experiments with the sticky substance in entirely new ways. His hyper-stylized images feature unwrapped sticks of gum used as building blocks to create unique and elaborate structures.

At first glance, you might not notice that the stacked structures are made from gum at all. But upon closer inspection, you can spot the sticks with their distinctive markings in a variety of colors—or flavors, rather—whether spearmint green, cinnamon red, or icy cool blue.

The colors and textures are enticing in their own right, but the particular arrangement of the pieces is what is most appealing. Whether it’s a monochromatic cube, an interlaced pattern, or a carefully constructed tower, Kaplan’s work combines the precariousness of a house of cards and the playfulness of a fresh pack. - Katy French visualnews.com

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Alexandra Engelfriet, Artist

Ceramic

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A. Ovaska, Andrew Gorzkowski, Andrea Onorato, Melanie Weismiller

Topography is a study of the Italian hill town of Assisi. After learning about countless examples of urban development in relation to site design and topography, we were asked to choose a building or urban condition which existed according a strict relationship to its site, and explore the condition through the construction of a physical model. A short series of drawings and diagrams of Assisi were completed as a supplement to the physical model.

Cornell University

Second Year

Spring 2010

Professor A. Ovaska

Collaborators: Andrew Gorzkowski, Andrea Onorato, Melanie Weismiller 

Kyle Schumann, Behance

Kyle Bean, Artist

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https://kylebean.co.uk/portfolio/wired0714

Martin Tomsky, Artist

Laser-cut Wood 

Source is Lost at E-Minor. 

Brain Frandsen with Ege Carpets, Designers

250 Layers of Carpet

Danish carpet manufacturer Ege Carpets and young designer Brian Frandsen were recently teamed up to create the project Face to Face. Ege Carpets is traditionally known for their innovative designs, environmental considerations, and uncompromising quality. Frandsen is a recent industrial and fashion design graduate. The collaboration brought standard 2D carpet designs to new, three-dimensional levels.

According to the Ege Carpet website, “Face to Face is brash and personal: Brian Frandsen’s own face has been scanned and used as a pattern for the many carpets that have been cut out and placed vertically and in layers.” The fresh and unconventional design incorporates 250 pieces of carpet layered together to construct Frandsen’s three-dimensional self-portrait.

Together with six leading Danish companies, Kolding School of Design presents the exhibition project The Tube at I Saloni in Milan. The completed Face to Face design will be presented there from now through April 22, 2012.

Image and text source My Modern Met. Link here.

Stacked Felt Chair, Richard Hutten, Artist

Richard Hutten for Kvadrat.  Link here to see more.

Fore-Edge Painting

Special Collections Librarian Colleen Theisen recently uncovered a fore-edge painting found on a scientific book from the early 19th century. The book is from a set of four volumes about the seasons by Robert Mudie that were donated to the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa by Charlotte Smith, each one holding a hidden image on the edge of its pages. Upon its discovery, Theisen promptly created a gif of the secret painting on the Autumn book.

It turns out that a secret image of a panoramic landscape corresponding to the volume's season is revealed on the fore-edge of each tome once the pages are fanned out. After coming across the blog post containing the eye-opening gif and realizing that there were still others in the collection that the librarian had not yet shared, Colossal's Christopher Jobson got in contact with Theisen to unveil the other three volumes. Now, all four seasons' landscape paintings have been unearthed and presented as gifs.

Image and text source is My Modern Met.

Miler Lagos, Artist

Trunk-like compositions created by colombian artist miler lagos are made from layers upon layers of densely stacked newspaper clippings, uniting in formation of giant, fallen tree branches.‘fragments of time’ ironically reinterprets the source material; the paper used becomes the artistic materialization its origin, transposed from foundation to creative application. the lifeless pieces arranged on the gallery floor are made up of hundreds of thin sheets newsprint, tightly packed together, carved and sanded on the edges, transforming them into hyper-realistic organic shapes. the wood color of the tree trunks is achieved on the paper’s surface while lagos carved away at the paper with an angle grinder. the friction made the paper burn, leaving a trail of smoke, which left a deep brown chroma on the paper’s exterior. the exposed cross section of each individual bark piece reveals printed matter — a fragment from a newspaper, chronicling various events and stories — alluding to the artwork’s namesake. segments of black and white feature photos and cut-off headlines impart only a fraction of what is trying to be told, beckoning viewers to interpret their original context. - above images and text from Design Boom.  Link here. 


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Antonio Pio Saracino, Artist

I found it here.
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Robin Hill, Artist

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Roser Oter, Artist

As I drift into my work for hours alone in the workshop, many feelings arise: emotions that I have lived and shared with others, those I felt inside and those that were expressed, all in all, they become a mix of senses. And gradually, in the workshop I start feeling less alone but in the company of people experiencing stories: some are mine and some belong to people I know. Once the pieces have been created, they are already part of me, part of my skin. From time to time, I go to look at them and check how they are drying up on the shelves and I feel like they are taking their own way, far from me but close to me at the same time.

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Below The Boat, Laser Cut Wood Charts

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Stacking

I do not have source for this image.  Source info can be e-mailed to me lmongiovi@flagler.edu

MakerBot 3D Printer, Micah Ganske, Designer

My sculptures are designed digitally and produced using a MakerBot 3D printer. Just as important to me as the amazing results that can be achieved with this exciting technology, is what it represents as a forward-looking technology. The dream of being able to replicate objects has always been a fixture of science fiction and I whole-heartedly embrace it as a way to create impossible artworks.

Micah Ganske was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1980. In 2002 he received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Post-Baccalaureate certificate from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003. In 2005 he received his MFA in painting from the Yale School of Art.  In 2005 he was the recipient of the Adobe Design Achiement Award in Digital Photography at a reception held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York where his work was also displayed.  In October 2007 Deitch Projects exhibited Ganske’s first solo exhibition. In 2011 he launched his second solo exhibition with RH Gallery in Tribeca, where he is now represented. Micah Ganske is also a 2012 Fellow in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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Spike Wademan, Artist

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Kate Torgersen, Artist

Office Paper

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Stacked Paper, Stephanie Herr, Artist

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Anish Kapoor, Artist

This is clay. Wet paper can make a similar structure when stacked. 

Concrete Coils.  I found it here on Design Boom.