This is an amazing idea for a truly striking effect with a simple medium...if you have a heckuva lot of time and patience (and at least 5 friends willing to help). Using only clear thumbtacks--albeit 100,000 of them in this case--this gorgeous typographic mural was created.
SwissMiss, always a source for things design that inspire, posted about this amazing mural made of pushpins at Wieden + Kennedy in Portland, Oregon. There is a video taken of the installation of this time consuming process, which is almost as interesting to watch happen as it is in its finished state.
We love the silvery effect that the pushpins have en masse, and are huge fans of the large scale of the type. While something in this size may not be a realistic DIY, we could absolutely see smaller scale applications of this technique. $20 worth of pushpins and some dedication could yield beautiful results...
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Comments (16)
Cool idea but what a lame message.
WIN.
Superfly.
My bad. I thought this was just another hipster-ironic thing.
This is fabulous (and the video is cool, too). It looks almost like sequins.
@slowdown, it could be, but it immediately brought to mind my co-worker reminding me "If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough." Or even Teddy Roosevelt and his “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
You might even be able to do this in an apartment if you didn't mind having to yank it all out later and paint over it. Or maybe you could do it on cork tiles so you could bring it with you later? I kinda want to try it, now who do I know that I could bribe into helping me?
This medium is used to better effect by artist Eric Daigh:
http://daigh.com/
(Best viewed a good distance back from your monitor)
At least they didn't do
Keep Calm and Carry On.
Love how it looks like 3D sequins
@t3d
haha, word!
Love it! But too much work. lol Frm afar it looks like glitter... I would've done it in glitter instead... lol
Love this. I'll take an actual size print, please. ;)
I saw this in the documentary "Art and Copy" this weekend. I too thought it was an inspirational design piece. However, I didn't know the story behind it. That's pretty awesome.
I love this. Funny how you can achieve pure glamour with such lowbrow materials.
It goes to show that small things in big dosages makes an even bigger impact...
including rain.
I can only assume this is a f*ck up of a quote from Beckett's Worstward Ho (which in the process misses the point entirely), the entire quote being:
Ever tried.
Ever failed.
No matter.
Try again.
Fail again.
Fail better.