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Disney's Graffiti Drone needs some work.
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There is a big difference between this thing and the ones that have come before, in that this version has a constant supply of paint.
Otherwise, nothing to see here, except for the brief reminders below:
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Artist Katsu's remote control graffiti machine, circa 2014, in WIRED
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Algorithmically-directed graffiti machine at the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit, MoMA circa 2008.
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Also let's not forget about this beautiful, remote graffiti alternative - lasers, by Graffiti Research Labs, circa 2010.
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While we're at it, news in lettering; No seriously, it's more interesting than it sounds:
Have you ever wished you couldn't read as good as you do? You know, one day you're sitting there, reading, which a few hundred years ago was relegated to a fraction of the population, but you're there reading and you think to yourself, man, I'm so good at reading that I read --too fast--. I wish I couldn't read as good as I do.
You are in luck, because some students who also wish they weren't so good at reading decided to make a font that is purposefully hard to read.
It's not illegible, it just rides the line just below perfectly legible. You have to struggle just a little bit, and that extra effort makes you remember what you're reading.
So it is a font designed to be not read too well. Surely, this isn't easy to create, because if it's too illegible, it will convey no meaning at all.
More importantly, this is a great example of a thing I don't know what we call - when you design something to be hard to use on purpose. Like we got so good at something, that the design goal is now to go in the other direction. Speed bumps are not what I'm talking about; they're an afterthought. The dog bowl that stops your dog from eating too fast, and what else.
Notes:
A Pantograph is an instrument for copying a drawing.
Oct 2018, BBC News
Design and the Elastic Mind, Review. New York Times, 2008
Design and the Elastic Mind, MoMA, 2008
Sans Forgetica: new typeface designed to help students study
Jan 2018, RMIT Vietnam News
May 2020, phys.org
CES 2019 The robot that draws on walls
Jan 2019, BBC
Wall-Crawling Robot Automates Mural Drawings
It's like a Roomba but on the wall, and it draws.
Jan 2018, RMIT Vietnam News
The Sans Forgetica font has received much press coverage, after researchers in Australia claimed they had designed a new font that would boost memory by making information that appeared in the new font feel more difficult to read—and therefore remembered better.Previously claimed memory boosting font Sans Forgetica does not actually boost memory
May 2020, phys.org
CES 2019 The robot that draws on walls
Jan 2019, BBC
Wall-Crawling Robot Automates Mural Drawings
It's like a Roomba but on the wall, and it draws.
Post Script: Just Graffiti Things
NY Court Approves $6.7M Award for 5Pointz Graffiti Artists Whose Work Was Destroyed
Feb 2020, NBC New York
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