client

Baltan Lab

Post Digital Design Tools
Workshop

TOOLS SERIES #3: AFTER THE BIT RUSH POST DIGITAL DESIGN TOOLS, a workshop organized by Baltan Laboratories and hosted at MU Eindhoven in the framework of After the Bit Rush, design in a post-digits age. Unfold gave the workshop together with Lucas Maassen, co-curater on the show.

The assignment: Digital tools are often based their analog counterparts. But in their digital context they are used to perform very different tasks. Many times they evolve into new independent digital design tools. Is it possible to do the same thing in the reverse? Can we create analog tools based on their digital counterparts? During the workshop, participants explored these possible transformations with designers Maassen and Unfold. In the evening, the results of the day-long workshop were presented during a public showing.

date

December 8th 2011
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Materials
fig. 01

Materials

Digital tool-descriptions
fig. 02

Digital tool
descriptions

Blur tool test
fig. 03

Blur tool test

Working
fig. 04

Working

Clone stamp tool
fig. 05

Clone stamp tool

Clone stamp tool-casting wax
fig. 06

Clone stamp tool
casting wax

Unsharp mask
fig. 07

Unsharp mask

Zooming in
fig. 08

Zooming in

Paint bucket
fig. 09

Paint bucket

Gradients
fig. 10

Gradients

Croping
fig. 11

Croping