Hi Design Friends,
In the last email I was inspired by the project name Laughlin and the phrase ' The
whole is more than the sum of its parts.' I saw this as an opportunity to push the
visual concept of cut and paste. Replication of the same simple shape to make a very
complex design. How far can you push it. Something as simple as a line can be pushed
pretty far. Here are some links:
http://ffffound.com/image/f66c6f2b56f058f65f07de831ff41764c7a9d726
This one reminds me of a Tara Donovan piece I saw last year at the
Boston ICA:
She basically took these long, long plastic/film sheets and dumped them
in a glass box... it has a similar effect.
A lot of her pieces are one type of ordinary household kind-of objects
repeated many times to make striking single objects:
Plastic cups: