All Outputs (17)

Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants (2023)
Journal Article

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.

Fully printed and multifunctional graphene-based wearable e-textiles for personalized healthcare applications (2022)
Journal Article

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

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.

Printing the light (2021)
Journal Article

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.

Black to Black (2018)
Journal Article

A technical review of specialist black printmaking papers, where to find them and how to use them.

The desert inside - the work of Cecilia Mandrile (2018)
Journal Article

Profile on the Argentinian artist Cecilia Mandrile, and discussion on her forthcoming exhibition The Desert Inside. We explored the changes in her practice, her connections established through travel, memory and experience of places, re-envisioning... Read More about The desert inside - the work of Cecilia Mandrile.

Carinna Parraman, chair of IMPACT reflects on IMPACT multi-disciplinary printmaking conferences since 1999 (2017)
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We are delighted to announce that IMPACT is returning to Europe, and IMPACT10 will take place in Santander Spain, 5th - 8th September 2018.

The material image: Artists’ approaches to reproducing texture in art (2016)
Journal Article

Since the introduction of computers, there has been a desire to improve the appearance of computer-generated objects in virtual spaces and to display the objects within complex scenes exactly as they appear in reality. This is a straightforward proce... Read More about The material image: Artists’ approaches to reproducing texture in art.

Vector driven 2.5D printing with non-photorealistic rendering (2016)
Journal Article

This paper documents the development of a low-cost 2.5D printing machine. The machine is being developed specifically to consistently print combined colour and texture on to 2D surfaces. The proposal is not so much to produce a painting machine in em... Read More about Vector driven 2.5D printing with non-photorealistic rendering.

An exploration of 2.5D printing as tactile pictures (2016)
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Novel printing and layering technologies that incorporate a raised or embossed surface have demonstrated new opportunities for novel applications. Textured images have been used extensively in the print industry as decorative decals and embellishment... Read More about An exploration of 2.5D printing as tactile pictures.

How red is Cadmium red? (2016)
Journal Article

Interest in the colour reproduction of artworks and artefacts is gaining more significance, as it is now recognised that some artefacts are too delicate to be exhibited and some important landmarks are no longer around due to damage by war or climate... Read More about How red is Cadmium red?.

Reflectance, illumination, and appearance in color constancy (2014)
Journal Article

We studied color constancy using a pair of identical 3-D Color Mondrian displays. We viewed one 3-D Mondrian in nearly uniform illumination, and the other in directional, nonuniform illumination. We used the three dimensional structures to modulate t... Read More about Reflectance, illumination, and appearance in color constancy.

Methods for multi-layer color printing and decorative inks for ultra-violet fine art inkjet (2013)
Journal Article

As more robust methods for UV cure inkjet printing are being introduced to market, alternative colour and decorative printing methods have been tested for the art, design and print sector. In order to increase density of colour, and improve ink cover... Read More about Methods for multi-layer color printing and decorative inks for ultra-violet fine art inkjet.

Color in the age of digital reproduction (2013)
Journal Article

Ask a group of artists to mix a brown and they will likely create a range of rich, deep colors. Ask them to describe the color and they might resort to analogies such as mahogany, chestnut or chocolate. Ask how to produce the color with pigments and... Read More about Color in the age of digital reproduction.

Experiments in inkjet colour tests for printmaking (2010)
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The motivation for this research is based on how artists mix and print colour by traditional means (painting and printmaking) and how these differ from colour picker tools, slider bars and methods developed for digital printing, and whether it is... Read More about Experiments in inkjet colour tests for printmaking.

Colour in flux: The art and science of colour (2008)
Journal Article

Editor (with Alessandro Rizzi) of the CREATE Special Edition issue “New Directions in Colour: From Science to Art” of Colour: Design & Creativity, online journal from the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC), Issue 3, October 2008. Download from: ht... Read More about Colour in flux: The art and science of colour.

The impact of paper on ink: From the photomechanical printer's perspective (2001)
Journal Article

This conference presentation was concerned with the substrate and how the print process can affect the visual aesthetic. There is a difference between the user who requires a general consistency of image on any paper substrate and the user who has a... Read More about The impact of paper on ink: From the photomechanical printer's perspective.