A work exploring the accidents that occur when a symbol is taken from its common seat, Frontier evidences a remote practice initiative researched and tested during my postgraduate study. The designs chronicle Spanish-Catholic iconography carried through Salamanca’s wild weather and antagonistic attitude. In Vancouver, Associate Professor Jon Hannan and I continued this accidentresearch by processing my digital captures through an analogue Riso machine to create over 1300 randomised pages and posters. Emily Carr’s special collections accepted a bespoke publication, and as part of an bid for new analogue technology at Emily Carr University Frontier helped secure $35,000 funding.
Here's a slice from making of Frontier:
Borne from my post-graduate research into remote design practice, Frontier became a component of a successful funding bid for new analogue design tech at Emily Carr University in Vancouver.
While working in Salamanca, Spain, I approached Jon Hannan, Associate Professor of Communication Design at Emily Carr, about a cross-continent collaboration. Rather the purely creative collaboration I envisioned, we began planning how our design project could utilise university’s sole Riso machine to drive student engagement with analogue tech. This culture shift would argue for new funding tomake analogue an equal stake to digital in the design faculty, fixing our diagnosesof a student bias toward over-formal design that would restrict their employment opportunities on graduation.
Jon and I worked together in Vancouver for a month, creating the Frontier publication and hosting an exhibition of the student’s Riso work. The publication was discussed in Jon’s lecture program, and accepted into the university’s special collections library. Our bid achieved $35,000 in funding for new Riso machines, successfully demonstrating that a culture shift in the student body towards analogue design wasfeasible by demonstrating analogue’s diversifying effect on both design solutions, and the student’s design portfolios.