{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Graffiti, Marker \u0026 Spray Cans"],"cover":{},"credit":"","date":"2009-11-18T14:39:28Z","description":"The project Facadeprinter is about inventing a new urban print media. Developed by two German students, the facadeprinter makes it possible to large-scale print walls...","html":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s wonderful to get to know, that creative people around the world steadily develop new techniques for making the urban landscape more colorful.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA really new and astonishing concept is the so called facadeprinter by Martin Fussenegger and Michael Haas, which was already in use at the \u003ca href=\"/stroke01-urban-art-fair-munich/\"\u003eurban art fair “Stroke01”\u003c/a\u003e in Munich this year. It’s a unconventional machine, which allows to create a new, previously non-existent form of urban print media - it’s an inkdot-printer in architectonical scale:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"external-video\" aria-label=\"Vimeo video\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVideo / Vimeo\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Vimeo player loads only when you choose to load it; Vimeo then receives your connection information.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/7299485\" rel=\"noreferrer\"\u003eWatch on Vimeo\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" data-video-src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/7299485?dnt=1\" data-video-title=\"Vimeo video referenced by Facadeprinter - Urban Print Media\" hidden\u003eLoad Vimeo player\u003c/button\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"video-player\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003c/section\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The facadeprinter is a simple, software controlled robot. It consists of a two-axis turntable and a print head which is powered by compressed air. The printer shoots the picture dot by dot from a remote distance on a selected surface. Particularly inaccessable, formatless and uneven surfaces can be printed on. For example a building can be printed from the street, without having a complex scaffolding.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe process of printing has a certain entertainment value. Moreover the facadeprinter is a comparatively cheap large-scale printing technology. Therefore it is an media and also a technical innovation. This new media is an unconventional tool for large-scale communication.”\n(press release)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more info or if you want to know technically details, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.facadeprinter.org/en/index.php\"\u003efacadeprinter.org\u003c/a\u003e. I like it!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVia \u003ca href=\"http://ilovegraffiti.de/blog/2009/11/17/6949/\"\u003eilovegraffiti.de\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\nIt’s wonderful to get to know, that creative people around the world steadily develop new techniques for making the urban landscape more colorful.\n\nA really new and astonishing concept is the so called facadeprinter by Martin Fussenegger and Michael Haas, which was already in use at the [urban art fair “Stroke01”](/stroke01-urban-art-fair-munich/) in Munich this year. It’s a unconventional machine, which allows to create a new, previously non-existent form of urban print media - it’s an inkdot-printer in architectonical scale:\n\n[Video on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/7299485)\n\n\n\u003e “The facadeprinter is a simple, software controlled robot. It consists of a two-axis turntable and a print head which is powered by compressed air. The printer shoots the picture dot by dot from a remote distance on a selected surface. Particularly inaccessable, formatless and uneven surfaces can be printed on. For example a building can be printed from the street, without having a complex scaffolding.\n\u003e\n\u003e The process of printing has a certain entertainment value. Moreover the facadeprinter is a comparatively cheap large-scale printing technology. Therefore it is an media and also a technical innovation. This new media is an unconventional tool for large-scale communication.”\n\u003e (press release)\n\nFor more info or if you want to know technically details, visit [facadeprinter.org](http://www.facadeprinter.org/en/index.php). I like it!\n\nVia [ilovegraffiti.de](http://ilovegraffiti.de/blog/2009/11/17/6949/).\n","tags":["Architecture","Mural Art","Painting","Print"],"title":"Facadeprinter - Urban Print Media","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/facadeprinter-urban-print-media/"}