Dishy
I've actually managed to combine my two favourite things in the world - food and outdated repair manuals. It started with seeing one of the many excellent plates of santos; the later purchase of a second-hand manual for this car; and the Spice designer also does plates with kid's artworks.
Scanned into photoshop, contrasted, magic wanded, cut pasted,layered, opacitied, resized and then tidied up a bit. It gets printed onto special paper which is stuck onto a plate then fired and here they are.
If anyone's got a spare copy of the 1918 Gray's Anatomy or a manual for Hino ZM 312E, let me know.
posted by Anthony at Wednesday, June 20, 2007
15 Comments:
Brilliant. They look great too. They could so easily look awful.
6/21/2007 05:56:00 am
New manthatcooks sideline? manthateatsofffancyplate.
6/21/2007 08:53:00 am
A horrible image of the Joy of Sex on a plate just lept into my mind. On a more postive note I could dig out something on a D-type Jag.
6/21/2007 10:16:00 am
Barbara
Thanks! Know what you mean, this was my first design.
Bramble
easilydistractedmanthatshouldhavebetterthingstobedoingthanmakingplates or manthatbothersdesigner.
ed
The beard!!!!!! oooooooooh nice
6/21/2007 10:44:00 am
Gorgeous. Very impressive.
You know you can get the 1918 Gray's Anatomy online. The layout and typography is obviously missing, but all the original illustrations are there.
6/25/2007 03:19:00 pm
Cheers and thanks Rob.
I don't know you could get it online - off to have a good fossick.
6/25/2007 10:00:00 pm
Look great! Where did you get the 'special paper' from? Is it just an oven process or more involved?
7/29/2007 04:03:00 pm
ooh ta! It's a bit more involved than that - it's a "special decal paper" that gets done in Melbourne,we just send off the PDF's and then it's fired in a kiln.
7/30/2007 04:21:00 pm
Which doesn't tell you much - the person that does it for me is Kate Lindsay of Earlyworks (08) 9433 1694
7/30/2007 04:30:00 pm
Thanks for the anatomy illustrations link. Though my mind boggles at eating off colon plates :)
8/11/2007 05:42:00 pm
Yeah it's good isn't it
Here's a colon platter -
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8/14/2007 12:35:00 pm
Manuals on plates Cool ! , alternatively for certain bloke's, you could put a map on the plate on how to find the dishwasher !
8/22/2007 08:56:00 pm
Hey,
I got here through your flickr pictures and I am amazed. Holy crab, you made those dishes ? Gotta tell my Tompa to make me a pair of those (sorry in advance for stealing your idea ;-)
He is nuts about manuals and stuff alike, i ll ask him whats he got in his Pandora box (once he opens it, he can play with it for DAYZ :(
9/22/2007 09:32:00 pm
I'm also a sucker for older anatomy illustrations, especially those with a woodblock feel to them. I've found the NLM (National Library of Medicine) website to have a nice collection of fairly high resolution images that would be perfect for the kind of thing you're playing around with.
The historical anatomies online exhibit is especially nice.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/projects/bysubject.html
10/15/2007 12:14:00 am
Thanks peoples!
10/18/2007 08:53:00 pm
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