HANDMADE GRAPHICS REFUSE TO GO QUIETLY:
- in spite of the huge progressions made by mechanical and digital technologies on graphics and printing throughout the twentieth century, the handmade graphic just refuses to go away quietly and bow to the authoritative precision of works mediated through metal type or digital bitmaps. The answers may lie in that assumed authoritative precision which edits out all the imperfections, the unfiltered emotions, the unpredictabilites and the vagaries of the human touch.
- the 'truth' offered through homogenous consumer aesthetics is rapidly becoming less believable. The stranglehold of the computer program in flattening out the texture of imagery and its physical, material presence creates something quite different in experience from the image created by materials manipulated by hand.
Potential works to look at:
- Claude Lichtenstein's essay 'Tangible facts'.
(articulates the age-old problem for designers about the importance of playfulness with material craft in keeping their work fresh, alive and open to possibilities, and hints at the potential gains to be explored working in the space between the manual and the Mac).
http://www.eyemagazine.com/review/article/handmade-graphics-refuse-to-go-quietly
(Accessed 14 September 2018).
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