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Crystal growing design method: An investigation into the growing of crystals for jewellery designs (2022)
Journal Article
Boons, S. (2022). Crystal growing design method: An investigation into the growing of crystals for jewellery designs. Craft Research, 13(2), 303-326. https://doi.org/10.1386/crre_00081_1

Grown crystals are used for a range of novel innovations supporting a wide array of industries such as technology, medicine and electronics. Within the jewellery industry however, grown crystals are only used in a limited capacity and those of gemsto... Read More about Crystal growing design method: An investigation into the growing of crystals for jewellery designs.

Iris in, Iris out: Reflections on the production, exhibition and viewing of a bisected-eyeball hand-puppet (2022)
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Schwarz, C. (2022). Iris in, Iris out: Reflections on the production, exhibition and viewing of a bisected-eyeball hand-puppet. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 15(2), 276-294. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp_00042_1

This article reflects upon my short visual recording Eyedrops: A Monoculogue (2021). It describes the thinking process of creative avoidance (both making something new, but recycling ideas and materials which already exist, both in the mind and close... Read More about Iris in, Iris out: Reflections on the production, exhibition and viewing of a bisected-eyeball hand-puppet.

Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching (2022)
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Bell, R. (2022). Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 15(2), 126-138. https://doi.org/10.1386/JWCP_00034_1

As the COVID-19 pandemic gathered momentum in 2020, it became clear that online teaching spaces risked a distancing from the embodied knowledge so necessary to creative education. Teaching written texts to creative practitioners is a process that cal... Read More about Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching.

Hustling, hybridity and changing attitudes to work in the arts (2022)
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Sim, N. (2022). Hustling, hybridity and changing attitudes to work in the arts. Engage Journal, 10-17

For years, entry-level placement schemes have been one of the cultural sector’s main answers to broadening the diversity of organisations and recruiting younger practitioners who may not access positions through standard routes. While unpaid interns... Read More about Hustling, hybridity and changing attitudes to work in the arts.

Two sides to every story - letterpress printed bookworks by Andrew Morrison (2022)
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Bodman, S. (2022). Two sides to every story - letterpress printed bookworks by Andrew Morrison. Printmaking Today, 31(122), 22-23

An interview with the book and letterpress artist Andrew Morrison whose studio is based in the South West of England, about his artists' books in progress that explore physical structures, phonetics and visual language.

Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand (2022)
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Bodman, S. (2022). Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand. Printmaking Today, 31(121), 22-23

Norwegian artist Randi Annie Strand’s current printmaking project takes inspiration from light refraction. The artists’ books and films created for her Prism series are separate yet intertwined, and each is unique. As she explains: a book is three-di... Read More about Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand.

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

Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color (2021)
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Klein, S. (2021). Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color. The Californian Printmaker: The Journal Of The Californian Society Of Printmakers, 2021,

My practise is centered around color. As a scientist I can only emphasize that color is a miracle of the mind. Without the human soul, it does not exist. I am choosing the word soul and not brain, because colour is not only generated by the interacti... Read More about Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color.

Three-dimensional composites with nearly isotropic negative Poisson's ratio by random inclusions: Experiments and finite element simulation (2021)
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Zhang, M., Hu, H., Kamrul, H., Zhao, S., Chang, Y., Ho, M., & Karim, N. (2022). Three-dimensional composites with nearly isotropic negative Poisson's ratio by random inclusions: Experiments and finite element simulation. Composites Science and Technology, 218, Article 109195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2021.109195

Composites with negative Poisson's Ratio (NPR), also known as auxetic composites, are of great interests due to excellent properties. Auxetic composites of various types have been developed, however most of them have anisotropic NPR behaviour. This p... Read More about Three-dimensional composites with nearly isotropic negative Poisson's ratio by random inclusions: Experiments and finite element simulation.

The practice of multispecies relations in urban space and its potentialities for new legal imaginaries (2021)
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Dillon, T. (2021). The practice of multispecies relations in urban space and its potentialities for new legal imaginaries. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 12(Special Issue), 148-161. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2021.00.07

This article explores what it means to enact multispecies relations in urban space. This exploration is rooted in contemporary art practices that create living frameworks through which encounters with non-human animal cultures, histories, rituals and... Read More about The practice of multispecies relations in urban space and its potentialities for new legal imaginaries.

Twenty-five and counting: San Francisco Center for the book celebrates its past and future in artists’ books (2021)
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Bodman, S. (2021). Twenty-five and counting: San Francisco Center for the book celebrates its past and future in artists’ books. Printmaking Today, 30(120), 22-23

I spoke with Jennie Hinchcliff, Exhibitions and Events Manager at the San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) as they celebrate their 25th anniversary. SFCB was established by Mary Austin and Kathleen Burch in 1996, to serve west coast and internati... Read More about Twenty-five and counting: San Francisco Center for the book celebrates its past and future in artists’ books.

Man-made crystals: A review of their historic and contemporary context and use (2021)
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Boons, S. (2021). Man-made crystals: A review of their historic and contemporary context and use. International Journal of Design in Society, 15(2), 63-71. https://doi.org/10.18848/2325-1328/cgp/v15i02/63-71

This paper reports on the history and use of man-made crystals for jewelry in a contemporary context. The cross-disciplinary contextual review traces human fascination with gemstones back centuries, and covers key developments in their "imitation."Th... Read More about Man-made crystals: A review of their historic and contemporary context and use.

Robust and flexible optically active 2D membranes based on encapsulation of liquid crystals in graphene oxide pockets (2021)
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Chen, M., Goh, S. M., Yang, K., Nikitina, A. A., Chen, S., Leng, X., …Andreeva, D. V. (2021). Robust and flexible optically active 2D membranes based on encapsulation of liquid crystals in graphene oxide pockets. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 8(22), Article 2101432. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202101432

Design and engineering of novel low dimensional metamaterials allow for new applications in membrane technology, aerospace and automotive industries, architecture, robotics, medicine, and textiles. Such materials can be strong, flexible, transparent,... Read More about Robust and flexible optically active 2D membranes based on encapsulation of liquid crystals in graphene oxide pockets.

Graphene‐based technologies for tackling COVID‐19 and future pandemics (2021)
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Afroj, S., Britnell, L., Hasan, T., Andreeva, D. V., Novoselov, K. S., & Karim, N. (2021). Graphene‐based technologies for tackling COVID‐19 and future pandemics. Advanced Functional Materials, 31(52), Article 2107407. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202107407

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for rapid tools and technologies to combat highly infectious viruses. The excellent electrical, mechanical and other functional properties of graphene and graphene-like 2D materials (2DM) can be utilized to... Read More about Graphene‐based technologies for tackling COVID‐19 and future pandemics.

Future past and tense (2021)
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Bodman, S. (2021). Future past and tense. Printmaking Today, 30(119), 22-23

Sarah Bodman talks to Ioannis Anastasiou and Majka Dokudowicz online from their studio in Wrocław, Poland. Both are PhD researchers at the E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, actively exhibiting their prints and artists' books nationally... Read More about Future past and tense.

Methodologies of softness (2021)
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Dillon, T. (2021). Methodologies of softness. Copenhagen Architecture Festival Journal,

Teresa Dillon introduces Soft Agency and their methodological approach.

His dark materials (2021)
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Bodman, S. (2021). His dark materials. Printmaking Today, 30(118), 22-23

Ian Andrews talks to Sarah Bodman about his collaboration with a particle physics group resulting in artists’ books exploring dark matter

Printing the light (2021)
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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.