Another beautiful product (soon to be released) from KithKin’s “Some Rights Reserved” open-source design collection is Matthew Appleton’s “Afterlife” poster - it builds on the growing trend of product dissections for good by depicting the relative geometric footprint of a printer’s many parts as compared to a pencil. The project claims to show how complex a printer is to design and build when compared to a pencil - although there is nothing really so simple about a pencil either). But the overall footprint of the product makes itself clear: hours of engineering and dozens of parts are necessary to make something, all of which could have been diverted to other (better?) uses. Then again, I’ll need a printer when I can finally download a copy of this gorgeous image…
. Leo is a artist, inventor and all around practical person in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. He has a background in sculpture, architecture and industrial design as well as an MS from the Media Lab spent working on the kitchen of the future. He is on a search for truth.
