Friday, May 7, 2004

Open Label Project- Review We started this project last month, and it got a bit spread out...  let's recap- So the idea would be to make paper labels available for download on the Internet. They would be a standard size so that other potters pots could use them, and others could make labels that you might want to put on your pot. A potter might include a sheet of them for their customers and a note on where to get more on the Internet. I'm currently working on 1.25 x 1.75 inch labels,  with the wide portion oriented horizontally, with Avery 6570. While these could be considered fantasy or fake labels, I think they do make valid artistic statements. I have created them with the idea of storage, or containers in mind. Perhaps a notion of Labels of Abstraction is appropriate. Here's some more typical text for the labels: 1. Nice graphic border, otherwise blank, that folks could put in their own info. 2. "House Seasoning" for a spice jar, to fill with your own dry seasoning. 3. "Special Tea Blend" for tea caddy to fill with your own dry tea. 4. "Hearth to Earth" for a jar that can store seeds. 5. "Tools for Ideals" for a pencil holder type jar. 6. "Famous Quote(s)" to evoke meaning, for any type of jar. 7. "Refresh" for a jar holding candy, fragrance, toy, or other thing that can be used for a break. More abstract examples: Dreams Fortunes Fate Jokes Insults Speaking to handmade ceramics and craft in general: Handmade Stuff. Things by Humans. Essence of Beings. Grown, not made. .... more conceptual notions: Pieces of an autobiography. Portions of Time. Memories Bound. Substance gathered from the psychic realm. Elements of Homogenaity. Whole Pieces. A Jar of Expanding Universe. Intersects of Time and Space. Vestages of Tomorrow Evidence of Another Space Missing Voids Particulars of a Forgotten Majesty ...And as noted before: This post is licensed under a Creative Commons License. 10:43:17 PM

Open Label Project, cont'... Still working on the graphics for the Open label Project of last month. (Creating interesting labels that can be placed on pots. Labels are to be a standard size and orientation so that they can made by others and so can the pots.) A quick mock-up of a label at 2" x 4" looks way big. The proper pot size would be at least 6 to 10 inches in one dimension at a minimum. That's just too big for a minimum size. I think a smaller label would also work with a large pot and thus give more options. I think the 1.25 x 1.75 inches with Avery 6570 would work better. Plus it allows one 32 labels per sheet... Yikes! Better get cracking... 10:07:48 AM