From March to June 2021 I was experimenting with duct tape as a graphic material. It started because I wanted to find a way to create large scale graphics outside the computer. Duct tape appeared to be the most affordable and suitable option - it is cheap, it has a limited range of colours, it is already sticky (unlike the paper) and it has a cleaner look and use (unlike the paint). I found duct tape as "line for the big real world", so I was thrilled by the opportunities it could provide. I started exploring the material creating illustrations, posters, fonts, murals and found out even more unexpected features - like overlapping tone and outstanding scan appearance.
2 DYNAMIC CHAIRS. A graphic excercise with duct tape. The main goal was to study duct tape graphic features. Two chairs that I had in my room were taken as a subject. I wanted to represent dynamic mechanisms with the least number of canvases possible. Also I tried to tell about the chairs themselves as much as I could using chosen materials (blue duct tape, a4 papers, transparent duct tape, white duct tape). No preliminary sketches have been made.
SKI MAP STUDY & REMIX. Studying the construction of a ski map I had at home, I decided to represent its essence graphically. The main goal was to show my ability to solve the task as a graphic designer. The task was to symbolicaly represent the core of the map, which appears to be a smaller scale on the face side and a fragment on the back side. The red (or yellow on the 2nd work) rectangle helps to understand this construction easier. Blue (or a colorful variety on the 2nd work) line symbolicaly represents the ski slope. The upper left corner represents the cover of the map, which stands out as a block on the original. The asterisk sign is used to attract viewers attention (as covers do). The second canvas is made to complicate the design task. I wanted to represent all the slope colors (4) - red turned into yellow to avoid confusing - and to make their intersection foem a good-looking graphic composition. On the back I switched the colors to black to recieve the mono imprint of the composition. The preliminary sketches included.
DUCT TAPE FONTS. I started with creating my own type with black duct tape on A4 paper (1st photo). To make a task more complicated and to get an unexpected result, I decided to set a restricting condition - the letter can only be made with one line (no breaks) (photos 2 and 3). Then I disovered duct tape scan features. I made a font. Following are some examples of how it can be used.
ZAMBONI. In this project I wanted to create and illustration, that is going to hold A4 papers together without additional fastenings. I used the original photo of an ice resurfacer as a reference (because in my younger age I used to play hockey professionaly and I always admired that machine) and created an illustration that had to work as a bonding material and symbolic image at the same time.
DUCT TAPE ILLUSTRATIONS. PLASTIC TRANSPARENT FILM. In this project I wanted to show the use of color tape in real world big scale graphics. I took a symbolic bike image as an example (because it has simple structure, that remains its recognition even being deformed). I represented the use of different colors, the techique of "drawing" with tape, the interaction with the light. Also I discovered unexpected film feature - it electrifies and sticks to the wall without additional fastening.
DUCT TAPE POSTERS. The posters show how duct tape can be used graphically - it can create orderly (red poster) or random (yellow star poster) hatching as well as checked patterns. On the following posters I evolved the checked structure to create additional posters to make series.
BEDROOM GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION. I wanted to show my graphic skills and ability to work on symbolic and schematic illustrations. On the first canvas I represented my bedroom plan and picked 4 objects to show them on a plan symbolicaly. Then I decided to tell more about there objects so I created canvases with detailed images of these objects. I wanted to make it as various as possible so I showed frame through fill (red carpet), light source through object (lamp), green through yellow (bed sheet and bed frame), line through symbol (rack).
