Represent your city, represent your city, represent your city. Here graphic designer and illustrator Andreas Ekberg has an opportunity to reuse some lovely used, leftover wood ala Markerbot, a lasercut group. Screenprint time. Time to slap some ink on there. Ekberg takes his illustrations and photos of New York and just straight up slaps a NEW YORK CITY 2009 on top. Straight up.

For these prints I have been using my collection of photos from New York City and my own illustrations. I got inspired by the travel collages Cynthia is working on in her studio: http://malaran.com/travel. And I got some great leftover wood from NYC Resistor / Makerbot Industries that they had left over after making a 3D printer called Makerbot.

Words from Markerbot:

Nobody likes waste, and here at MakerBot we don’t either. One of the cool things about using a 3D printer like ours is that there is no waste: you use exactly the amount of material you need to print something, and no more. Unfortunately with subtractive processes like lasercutting, you have waste material. With our CupCake CNC designs, there is a large amount of negative space, which leaves us with these big, rounded squares of wood. They had been stacking up at the lab and we didn’t know what to do with them.

Enter Andreas Ekberg, one of our friends here in NYC. He stopped by NYC Resistor one night to hang out and chat and do cool things with us. Well, he spotted the stacks of blank wood and wondered if we had any plans for them. We didn’t and he ended up taking a whole stack of them home with him to screenprint on. The results are gorgeous.

Waste into art. Super awesome.

Way super awesome wowie!

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