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Don't give them fire! (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S. Don't give them fire!. [Print]. 4 March 2024 - 15 March 2024. (Unpublished)

The title ‘Don’t give them fire’ refers to the myth of Prometheus. Prometheus's most famous act was his theft of fire from the gods. According to the myth, Prometheus took fire from the workshop of Hephaestus (the god of fire and craftsmanship) and g... Read More about Don't give them fire!.

Impact 12 Proceedings // Panel Sessions and Reflective papers Vol 2 (2024) (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Parraman, C. (2024). Impact 12 Proceedings // Panel Sessions and Reflective papers Vol 2 (2024).

The second volume comprising a range of articles from the panel sessions and reflective presentations at IMPACT. The subjects reflect on many of the themes of the conference: the post-pandemic voice, community and collaboration, histories of print an... Read More about Impact 12 Proceedings // Panel Sessions and Reflective papers Vol 2 (2024).

Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants (2023)
Journal Article
Trujillo-Vazquez, A., Abedini, F., Pranovich, A., Parraman, C., & Klein, S. (2023). Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants. Colorants, 2(4), 632-653. https://doi.org/10.3390/colorants2040033

Two of the most significant cases of extant 16th-century featherwork from Mexico are the so-called Moctezuma’s headdress and the Ahuizotl shield. While the feathers used in these artworks exhibit lightfast colors, their assembly comprises mainly orga... Read More about Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants.

Printing structural colour (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C. (2023, July). Printing structural colour. Presented at Colour Conference 2023, University of Leeds

RGB printing or structural colour printing is an intriguing method that transforms everything we know about CMYK subtractive printing by combining additive print methods and RGB pigments that can radically change the appearance of the printed image.... Read More about Printing structural colour.

RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., Klein, S., Vazquez, A., & Fuller, H. (2023, June). RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images. Presented at Color Impact 2023, Rochester Institute of Technology

Commercial CMYK halftone printing involves additive and subtractive colour mixing that requires the optical mixing of primary colour hues using different-sized dots to obtain variations in reflected colour. Structural colour, as seen in nature, such... Read More about RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images.

Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S., Trujillo Vazquez, A., Davis, A., Paz, A., Buxton, A., Goodman, B., …Arteaga, R. Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England. [Print]. Exhibited at Bower Ashton Gallery, University of the West of England, Bristol. 13 March 2023 - 24 March 2023. (Unpublished)

The exhibition by printmaking staff at the University of the West of England has become an annual event. At the end of the last exhibition the next one seems far away. But time flies and suddenly March is very near again, and panic begins. The theme... Read More about Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England.

Deep Impact (2023)
Journal Article
Parraman, C. (2023). Deep Impact. Imprint Magazine, 58(1), 2

At the 12th IMPACT multidisciplinary printmaking conference in Bristol, The Printmakers’ Voice, artists, practitioners, academics, technologists and curators came together to listen to each other’s voices, share and discuss themes, view new works of... Read More about Deep Impact.

IMPACT 12 Proceedings 2023 (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Parraman, C. (2023). IMPACT 12 Proceedings 2023.

Editor of The first collection of academic papers from the IMPACT Conference The Printmakers' Voice, 21-25 September 2022, hosted by The Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England.  

Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications (2022)
Journal Article
Islam, M. R., Afroj, S., Beach, C., Islam, M. H., Parraman, C., Abdelkader, A., …Karim, N. (2022). Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications. iScience, 25(3), Article 103945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.103945

Wearable e-textiles have gained huge tractions due to their potential for non-invasive health monitoring. However, manufacturing of multifunctional wearable e-textiles remains challenging, due to poor performance, comfortability, scalability, and cos... Read More about Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications.

The Amber Project: A survey of methods and inks for the reproduction of the color of translucent objects (2022)
Journal Article
Trujillo-Vazquez, A., Fuller, H., Klein, S., & Parraman, C. (2022). The Amber Project: A survey of methods and inks for the reproduction of the color of translucent objects. Applied Sciences, 12(2), Article 793. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020793

Unlike regular pigments based on selective light absorption, the so-called “effect pigments” are based on the phenomena of structural color, or selective reflectance. Structural color has appealing aesthetic qualities, such as angle-dependent hue, an... Read More about The Amber Project: A survey of methods and inks for the reproduction of the color of translucent objects.

Recreating the relief of the temple of the Jaguars: Exploring digital and analogue 2.5D printing of Mesoamerican imagery (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Vazquez, A. T., Aure, X., Klein, S., & Parraman, C. (2021). Recreating the relief of the temple of the Jaguars: Exploring digital and analogue 2.5D printing of Mesoamerican imagery. In Printing for Fabrication Online 2021 Final Program and Proceedings (41-46). https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2169-4451.2021.37.41

Digital and analogue printing methods are studied for reconstructing a Mayan decorative relief from the ancient temple of the Jaguars. Height maps, image files encoding height information as intensity values, were produced in commercial image editing... Read More about Recreating the relief of the temple of the Jaguars: Exploring digital and analogue 2.5D printing of Mesoamerican imagery.

Physical patient simulators for surgical training: a review (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Shao, M., Parraman, C., & Huson, D. (2021). Physical patient simulators for surgical training: a review. In London Imaging Meeting (124-128). https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2694-118X.2020.LIM-05

The purpose of this article is to review the fabrication process of physical patient simulators for surgical training and describes current research areas. Medical image acquisition and analysis are tools to reproduce human anatomy in 3D models. Data... Read More about Physical patient simulators for surgical training: a review.

The craftsperson, tacit knowledge and digital embodiment (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., Ho, W., & D'Agnano, F. (2021, July). The craftsperson, tacit knowledge and digital embodiment. Presented at EVA, London

We are increasingly living in a world of digital interfaces, computer screens for work, VR headsets for entertainment, displays in cars and on coffee machines. Computers, robotics and AI are beginning to present new ways and possibilities that can fo... Read More about The craftsperson, tacit knowledge and digital embodiment.

Colour deceives continually (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., & Klein, S. (2021, January). Colour deceives continually. Presented at Electronic Imaging 2021, Color Imaging XXVI: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, online

This paper explores the relationship between additive and subtractive mixing for printing colour. Using mica pigments that are based on additive colour mixing principles, that when combined, create white. Although currently used for decorative effect... Read More about Colour deceives continually.

Printing the light (2021)
Journal Article
Parraman, C., & Klein, S. (2021). Printing the light. Coloration Technology, 137(1), 86-89. https://doi.org/10.1111/cote.12523

This paper explores the relationship between additive and subtractive mixing for colour printing. Using Spectraval mica pigments (Merck)—marketed as RGB pigments—colour is generated by selective reflection and prints are based on additive colour mixi... Read More about Printing the light.

Retrieving the ancient colours: Artistic practice as a tool for heritage reconstruction (2020)
Journal Article
Vazquez, A. T., Klein, S., Calvet, X. A., & Parraman, C. (2020). Retrieving the ancient colours: Artistic practice as a tool for heritage reconstruction. Color and Imaging Conference, 2020(28), 282-287. https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2169-2629.2020.28.45

The frieze of the Palace of the stuccoes, dated between the 5 th and 6 th century BC, was a polychrome Maya relief discovered in the 1907 in Yucatán, Mexico. It was documented in watercolours and hand tinted photographs by Adela Breton. After years o... Read More about Retrieving the ancient colours: Artistic practice as a tool for heritage reconstruction.

The art of the maker – Craft, design and technology in the 21st century (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C. (2020, October). The art of the maker – Craft, design and technology in the 21st century. Presented at Printing for Fabrication, Japan (online)

Invention, innovation and insight are keywords for any technologist and designer working in the academic or commercial sector. In the twenty-first century, a wealth of new and emerging materials, alongside digital methods for the manufacture of produ... Read More about The art of the maker – Craft, design and technology in the 21st century.

The reconstruction of the appearance of the Acancéh frieze by 2.5D printing (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Klein, S., Trujillo Vazquez, A., Calvet, X. A., & Parraman, C. (in press). The reconstruction of the appearance of the Acancéh frieze by 2.5D printing

The aim of the project is to reconstruct the appearance of the Maya frieze of the Palace of the Stuccoes in Acancéh Yucatán, dating from c. 350 BC to AD 850. The frieze itself is destroyed by now but was documented by Adela Breton in 1907. Her waterc... Read More about The reconstruction of the appearance of the Acancéh frieze by 2.5D printing.