Four Bikes for Four Colors
Not exactly a necessary addition to the already crowded sea of printing equipment but certainly a fun and potentially healthy one, the Tryckcykeln made it’s debut earlier this summer in Sweden. A pair of young, Swedish printing and bicycling enthusiasts decided to merge their shared interests into one beautiful, if not completely practical, print-cycle. Calle Enström and Johan Undén created the bizarre printing machine for their final project at Forsbergs School of Graphic Design and Advertising. Built from four separate bicycles, their pedaling produced an edition of CMYK books and won them two scholarship awards.
Admittedly, the registration is off and the print quality is questionable at best but I think the whole project is worth it for the visual of that long, colorful bike-train. I’m a sucker for things in CMYK. Click on the links for more images.
Off-register doesn’t begin to describe it! What a spectacle. ..What they are missing is unique messenger bags.
I like the performance element in this project.
I am trying to find another panelist for my panel at SGC in Chicago, who does performance printmaking, if anyone has a recommendation.
StoneMetal Press, my nonprofit studio, has done a stage perfomance called PrintDance as well as steamroller prints. You can see images at,
http://www.stonemetal-press.com/pastexhibitions.htm
Le Green
Le Green,
You might contact Lisa Bulawsky at Washington University in St. Louis. She has done a number of performative print projects in the past.
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