when graphic meets architecture

Perhaps a question I've always been interested in... and one that I've always been quite cautious about. What happens when graphic art meets architecture? Can it escape the ornamentation boundaries it holds? Possibilities ppl! Possibilities! Its an exciting time to be alive (if you're interested in this kind of work)
Project To Surface looks to test these ideas and visuals concepts... Bah check them out! I'll be keeping an eye on this one. Its a comforting sight to see KAWS graphics on a Rhino interface haha~

Here is what the project is about...

Art and architecture collide on Madison Avenue. Project to Surface is a collaboration between five visual artists and an architect in rendering their visual concepts into three-dimensions through the use of cutting edge architecture software, fabrication tools and techniques. David Diao, Kenji Hirata, KAWS, Matzu-MTP and Leah Raintree will work with designer Ben Krone, a rising star in the architecture world, to create five large-scale sculptural panels.

Each three-dimensional relief surface is created using elaborate digital translation tools, such as Rhinoceros CAD software, and then converted into tooling paths and mechanically cut on a 3-axis CNC mill.

In applying advanced architecture tools and processes to project the artists’ visual concepts into three-dimensional relief, PROJECT TO SURFACE seeks to explore the possibilities and dangers of intersecting art and architecture.

Read another way, the word “surface” points to the emergence of the artists’ vision partnered with the architect’s hand, while revealing a series of narratives that document the dynamics of an exploratory collaboration.

The five finished panels and their prototypes will be exhibited in a gallery exhibition at m127, a new Madison Avenue development in New York City designed by SHoP. The exhibition opens June 28, 2007, and runs for two months.

and before i forget... for all the fellows out there with ladies to impress... its easy to do just follow these steps... this proof that anyone can print anything on a tee and sell it... its so easy a flaming monkey can do it with one hand while playing the banjo with the other.

You heard me. A banjo.