There's been some discussion recently about the pros and cons of working with photocopies and facsimiles for projects in your home. Where ever you land in the debate, xeroxing remains an inexpensive process with huge possibilities, and we thought we could take the opportunity to show a few interesting applications we've collected over the past few months. After the jump, a roundup of some of our favorite uses for photocopies and ink jet prints...
In the images above, Chenhhui Su uses a silkscreen of a xerox to dress-up less than stellar chairs, and Monique and Richard altered what was originally an expensive Cole & Son wallpaper using a blueprint copier!
Here, some of Jenny Holzer's Inflammatory Essays were installed in their original colors and formation in the Philadelphia Fabric Workshop & Museum; this filing cabinet was decoupaged with photocopies of a classic chinoiserie print.
Mark Culter's "Tableaux Cloths" use simple silkscreening techniques and canvas to mask what were originally uninteresting tables, and Deborah Bowness' hand printed wallpapers employ a xeroxed effect in their tromp l'oeil of everyday objects.
Finally, Anna James' "Verona" cabinet takes digital images of graffiti and applies them to a classic period piece, and artist Simone Decker transforms indoor space by using large scale fabric prints of images taken outside.
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Comments (13)
"Tableaux Cloth" makes me smile...
Whenever I see the 'tree print' wallpaper- which is pretty often lately- I think: "they must read the same design blogs and decorating magazines that I do."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30160010@N07/2923002398/
Xerox is not a verb.
Of course xerox is a verb - I just googled it to make sure. ; )
Correctomundo! English allows you to verbify any noun. I know that freaks out English teachers and ESL students, but usage becomes the rule. You dig? I'm blogging this right now. ~;o)
Love, love, love that cat condo ottoman, spinningscreen.
this can be coupled with rasterbator to make oversized xerox prints
Heh. I was in the Burlington Coat Factory yesterday and saw something very similar to the "Tableaux Cloth" (except white on black print with the company logo in the space between the "legs") used on the display tables. Neat idea.
this thread reminds me a little of the bathroom fun we're in the midst of (can't afford to rehab, so we're aiming for the the distract-from-the-awful-tiling approach).
From our dreadful bathroom!
@littlebunnyfoofoo:
Oh that made me giggle. I like it.
No comments on whether this is actually legal or not. After all, if you're copying artwork, you're violating copyright. And much of this appears to be in that vein.
not impressed, AT....unless, of course, we can copy your website, copy your merchandise, etc and call it our own because it's cheaper.
thanks, sciencegeek! wc_canuck: i can only speak for the art we used for our bathroom, which is from one of those copyright-free books that dover books puts out. actually, trader joe's uses a lot of art from these books, also.
an example of one such book:
http://store.doverpublications.com/0486237664.html