Countdown!

Last month until 30min presentations are due. 

I just bought the pigments to make thermo-paint. Itll take about 3weeks. From the states. To Sydney. Crap. After some research, relying mostly on the accounts from these two lovely sites: softcircuit2 & artisticjunkie, I've purchased the "dust" from solarcolordust and need to go buy a Liquitex Slow-Dri Fluid Retarder Additive from my local-has-everything-ever-imagined-artshop North Shore Art. For the presentation i'll also need to get a heating pad to put behind the displays in-order for the designs to change. 

Inspiration:

Face 37 - September Poster 
"September is typically regarded as a month of transition in the Northern Hemisphere as the dying embers of Summer are replaced by the cooler and greyer chills of Autumn and the onset of early darkness. It is often associated with melancholic self-reflection as if heat and sunlight are a temporary physical and mental panacea. inspired by the physical reality of changing seasons and simple emblematic change of colour of falling leaves, I used thermochromic ink that alters colour dependent on room temperature."

You can purchase it here: face37

Another Example: Im not sure of the name, or who created the design but it can be found here: miafranceskennedy.

This is just damn great. Again, no idea who created it. Has nothing to do with thermoes but its could be applied.

Hydrochromic Things

Amy Winters, a British/Swiss artist made her first ready-to-wear printed collection where garments are able to change colour to sun and water. 

Another wearable by SquidLondon.

Entire rooms dedicated to water.

Advertising and Movie-making

Coopers "Light After Dark" campaign launched a "handcrafted" luminous UV painted billboard.


Another great use of the glowy paint was in the construction and design of Lord of the Rings' scale models of Minas Morgul.

Open Brain Storming

After researching photochromic and thermochromatic paints and their uses I've been thinking about the final presentation...Not long now. And I want to present something other than printed materials. I came across these handmade wall decals on facebook a while back. Just a bit of corn starch or a pre-made stick and boom instant wall art or wallpaper.

pistachioproject, sewingforscarlett & curbly have some good tutorials. 

While I wouldnt be allowed to paint a wall at cofa, perhaps I could stick it on and peel it off.
Crazy walls crazy walls crazy walls

Photochromatic Stuff
The museum goudA redesigned their torture chamber using UV. Illustration - Jos Verwer, and Type - Trapped in Suburbia

Internal Philips Design Metamorphosis document. The bookcover uses photochromic and thermochromic ink. 

Calignosity by Andreas Pohancenik - UV Varnish and invisible UV ink screen print on ebony plike, A1

More Examples

Thermochromatic Projects!!!

Hug Prints, by Catherine Sarah Young, is a project about Hugging. She sought to investigate "our perception of touch". Her site: theperceptionalist

These were her results:

At the end of the session, I had two conclusions:

1. A responsive garment made people pay attention to the act of hugging in the sense that they had the feedback of the vest to observe after the hug. In normal circumstances, people would just hug and then carry on. Here I felt that they were aware of the vest’s thermochromism, and thus affected the pressure and duration of the hug.

2. Having a garment that responds to touch can make the person want to hug the wearer more. But it can also turn people away; I had an incident where the person refused to hug (I was a sad puppy), even though we’ve hugged on other, more informal, occasions. I suspect that if I kept doing this, I would encounter people who would not like the idea of calling out this particular interaction.

There are two directions in which I can take this project:

1. Investigate how this vest can affect specific relationships, such as parent and child, or husband and wife, etc.

2. Investigate how this can play out with strangers in public spaces.

In any case, I have a lot of hugging to do.

Jay Watson's "Just a Little Longer" (jaywatsondesign) is an oak table finished with thermochromatics. Simple and effective. And out of my price range.

Francine LeClercq has an exhibition using painted cells that react the environment and audience. 

Another project of hers, "No Picture Available [081122]"

Teratology

A design in response to Genes for Jeans day.