Prints & Merchandise: Vinyl Tape Collages
Life
I spent about a year working as the in-house graphic designer for a manufacturing company in Torrance, California, where they produced sign lettering machines and the self-adhesive tape used in the machines. Access to lots of tape and the machines, and some spare time, lead to this series of pieces constructed from the tape.
Self-adhesive tape on poster board, original app. 12" x 18"; c. 1987. The high resolution scan I made of this piece allows it to be printed up to about 22" x 28" at full resolution.
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Abstact in Tape & Letterforms 1
I spent about a year working as the in-house graphic designer for a manufacturing company in Torrance, California, where they produced sign lettering machines and the self-adhesive tape used in the machines. Access to lots of tape and the machines, and some spare time, lead to this series of pieces constructed from the tape. Many of these pieces incorporate the "counters," i.e. the little negative shapes that were left over after cutting letter shapes out of the tape for signs.
Self-adhesive tape on poster board, original app. 12" x 18"; c. 1986. The high resolution scan I made of this piece allows it to be printed up to about 22" x 28" at full resolution.
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Communications Breakdown
I spent about a year working as the in-house graphic designer for a manufacturing company in Torrance, California, where they produced sign lettering machines and the self-adhesive tape used in the machines. Access to lots of tape and the machines, and some spare time, lead to this series of pieces constructed from the tape.
Self-adhesive tape on poster board, original app. 12" x 18"; c. 1986. The high resolution scan I made of this piece allows it to be printed up to about 22" x 28" at full resolution.
Confusion
I spent about a year working as the in-house graphic designer for a manufacturing company in Torrance, California, where they produced sign lettering machines and the self-adhesive tape used in the machines. Access to lots of tape and the machines, and some spare time, lead to this series of pieces constructed from the tape.
Self-adhesive tape on poster board, original app. 12" x 18"; c. 1986. The high resolution scan I made of this piece allows it to be printed up to about 22" x 28" at full resolution.
Abstract in Tape & Letterforms 5
I spent about a year working as the in-house graphic designer for a manufacturing company in Torrance, California, where they produced sign lettering machines and the self-adhesive tape used in the machines. Access to lots of tape and the machines, and some spare time, lead to this series of pieces constructed from the tape.
Self-adhesive tape on poster board, original app. 12" x 18"; c. 1987. The high resolution scan I made of this piece allows it to be printed up to about 22" x 28" at full resolution.
Abstact in Tape & Letterforms 3
This piece is constructed entirely of "counters," i.e. the inside shapes of letters, or what is normally seen as negative shapes on the inside of letters. I spent about a year working as the in-house graphic designer for a manufacturing company in Torrance, California, where they produced sign lettering machines and the self-adhesive tape used in the machines. Access to lots of tape and the machines, and some spare time, lead to this series of pieces constructed from the tape.
Self-adhesive tape on poster board, original app. 12" x 18"; c. 1986; this high resolution scan allows prints at up to 22" x 28" at full resolution.
"Abstract In Tape - Starburst"
Self-adhesive tape on poster board, original app. 12" x 18"; c. 1987. The high resolution scan I made of this piece allows it to be printed up to about 22" x 28" at full resolution.
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I spent about a year working as the in-house graphic designer for a manufacturing company in Torrance, California, where they produced sign lettering machines and the self-adhesive tape used in the machines. Access to lots of tape and the machines, and some spare time, lead to this series of pieces constructed from the tape. For the prints I have cleaned up the images to make the colors more solid, clear, and defined.
