Aimee Gauthier's 'Sifted' and 'Let's Play'

A couple of neat projects by recent grad (and current MCAD DesignWorks Intern) Aimee Gauthier. The first is a cookbook project titled, "Sifted."

And then there is her Senior Project - a play kit called, "Let's Play."

For more of Aimee's work, go here:
http://www.aimeegauthier.com/
http://notionspotions.blogspot.com/

INK!

We go through a lot of ink here at MCAD. We have 8 Epson 4800s and 1 Epson 9800 used by hundreds of students each semester. Last year we burned through over 280 of the 220ml ink cartridges. After looking at our ink usage over the last year or two we decided that instead of ordering ink every few weeks or months as we needed it, we would just order an entire year's worth. This is what an entire year's worth (we hope) of ink looks like:

Journey to the Stars

Check out our new display print! It's HUGE!!!

The display print is a small section of a much larger image of our galaxy.

The full image was stitched together from over 800,000 frames from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and is over 2.5 billion pixels wide!  This display print is just one of 16 sections.  Each section is approximately 25,000 pixels wide and at this print size is 165" (13.75 feet) wide.  If you were to print the entire image at this same proportion it would be 220 feet long!

This is a three-color composite that shows infrared observations from two Spitzer instruments. Blue represents 3.6-micron light and green shows light of 8 microns, both captured by Spitzer's infrared array camera. Red is 24-micron light detected by Spitzer's multiband imaging photometer. Different objects emit at different wavelengths: thermal emission, or heat, from warm dust is rendered in red, while star-forming regions appear as swirls of red and yellow, where the warm dust overlaps with the glowing organic molecules. The diffuse green glow seen everywhere in the image is from complex organic molecules called PAHs, or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. On Earth those are created when fossil fuels are burned; in space, they are byproducts of stellar birth and death.  The blue specks sprinkled throughout the photograph are Milky Way stars.

The Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire team (GLIMPSE) used the telescope's infrared array camera to see light from newborn stars, old stars and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. A second group, the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer Galactic Plane Survey team (MIPSGAL), imaged dust in the inner galaxy with Spitzer's multiband imaging photometer.

Our display print is 25,000px / 165”(13.75') wide, took 5 hours to print on the Epson 9800 on Premium Luster Photo Paper (260) and would cost you $165!


Image Credit:

The Infrared Milky Way: GLIMPSE/MIPSGAL
Spitzer Space Telescope/IRAC/MIPS
NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin), GLIMPSE Team and S. Carey (SSC-Caltech), MIPSGAL Team

Pam Salen's "I Remember Dreaming"

The inaugural MCAD SB Blog post goes to Pam Salen in honor of her impending departure for grad school in Australia.  Pam has served as the Senior Admin Assistant and Publication Designer in the Student Affairs office for 7 or 8 years.  Recently she finished up her BFA degree through MCAD and this was her senior project.

 
 
I Remember Dreaming, 2009
Paper, Digital and Ink-Jet Prints
Banners: 22 x 72 in. (55.9 x 182.9 cm)
Book: 5 1/2 x 11 in. (14 x 27.9 cm)


The large hanging prints were run on our Epson 9800 on Inkpress 7mil Transparency Film. The books were printed on our Konica BizhHub c650 on clear transparency film and Mohawk Color Copy 98 paper.


See more about this project and the rest of her work at her website.