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    Tired of the transient nature of digital artifacts, I recently decided to create something manually again for a change. The result was this collage, created from a 1966 issue of National Geographic.
    While it started with no real goal in mind, it became quite a narrative image, depicting human development through a clash of cultures and the consequential technological development.

    If you want you can grab the poster as a hi-res A3 .pdf from http://www.sjef.nu

    Wed, Dec 12, 2007  Permanent link

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    lateral     Wed, Dec 12, 2007  Permanent link
    Nice one. Can we assume you used scissors and glue, since you state being tired of the digital?
    sjef     Wed, Dec 12, 2007  Permanent link
    Yup. Scissors, glue and a frustratingly blunt scalpel.
    feanne     Wed, Dec 12, 2007  Permanent link
    Very patient of you! :)
    Sect     Wed, Apr 29, 2009  Permanent link
    escaping the 2D surface for a bit is always nice.

    Swiss inspired?
    sjef     Sat, May 2, 2009  Permanent link
    No swiss stuff wasn't the inspiration directly, I do love the aesthetic & structured approach of that kind of work and that influence probably shows in almost everything I make (I hope).
    The idea to use the yellow bars & type from the cover that way only came up about half way through. As I said there wasn't any real concept to start out, but having made an initial selection of various type & images from this mag and starting to edit & lay it out a narrative started to appear and that led to the idea of having each poster consist of cuts from a single issue & using the cover info to contain it as a unit.

    I've done another one since then, turns out the hard part is actually finding older issues that have enough good material in them to make something interesting, newer issues are nowhere near as good (for this) because of the way the style of photography & subject matter have changed over the years.

    Sect     Mon, May 4, 2009  Permanent link
    It could be cool to show some of the actual cuts or rips in the paper. This (what you currently have done) almost looks as though you have masked out individual parts with the ye ole pen tool (maybe you have?).

    I'm working on an assignment atm and utilising a similar technique, but having to do it for a comic which i wrote the script for. Such an epic hoe of a task man, coming up with a script including chars, dialogue, setting, worlds etc, then trying to make it visually pleasing and unique.. combined with learning maya and after effects (not too bad on AE) it's turning into a proper head mess.

    That's right, I just defecated my personal issues all over your thread.

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