Prints made with steamroller

Posted by David Pescovitz, June 24, 2008 12:52 PM | permalink

Raphael Uhrweiller and Mayumi Otero of France's Ecole supérieure des arts décoratifs (ESAD) made huge woodcut art prints with a 17 ton steamroller. Link (via Drawn!)

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#1 posted by demidan , June 24, 2008 1:10 PM

oooooooh, Cool prints, and fun for the big child in you!

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#2 posted by Aloisius , June 24, 2008 1:18 PM

The Center for the Book in San Francisco did the same thing a while back. The prints had a really nice transfer.

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#3 posted by Aloisius , June 24, 2008 1:24 PM

Actually it looks like the Center of the Book does it once a year:

http://www.sfcb.org/html/roadworks.html and you can see the prints they auctioned off last year at http://sfcb.org/2007steam/

They are quite neat.

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#4 posted by Lilith999 , June 24, 2008 1:47 PM

The college I go to, University of Montana, has been doing this kind of thing for years.

http://umnewsmontana.blogspot.com/2007/11/art-at-university-of-montana-now.html

It's all part of this Day of the Dead thing that Missoula does every fall.

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#5 posted by powermatic , June 24, 2008 1:59 PM

Sadly, not a true 'steamroller', which would have been awesome beyond compare, adding whole layers to the artistic construct. Still and all, cool.

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#6 posted by chumprock , June 24, 2008 2:06 PM

I suggested something like this for a project in my commercial art class in high school many years ago and got yelled at for not taking the project seriously.

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#7 posted by noen , June 24, 2008 2:11 PM

Very cool!

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#8 posted by Pablo Defendini , June 24, 2008 2:27 PM

Printmaking instructor Dennis McNett organizes a steamroller print day at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn every year, as well. It's a whole bunch of fun! Here are some words and pictures from last year's event.

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#9 posted by Anonymous , June 24, 2008 2:32 PM

i've seen them do this in san antonio, tx quite a few times. it's so much fun to watch!

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#10 posted by eiderfarmer , June 24, 2008 4:37 PM

I took a college class many years ago from Mick Sheldon, who would print woodcuts with the front wheel of his old van.

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#11 posted by Fritz Bogott , June 24, 2008 7:12 PM

Some folks here made dynamite ones for Dia de los Muertos a couple of years ago.

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#12 posted by mdpaustin , June 24, 2008 8:03 PM

The printmaking department at the University of Texas at Austin does this once a year as well. Check out pictures from this year:

http://www.brandonboyle.com/Steamroller%20Madness%202008.html

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#13 posted by djlicata , June 25, 2008 6:41 AM

The Department of Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo did this in April. Flickr photostream here http://tinyurl.com/458z76.

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#14 posted by Bookyloo , June 25, 2008 8:17 AM

So basically if you want to open a book-arts center or art printing shop you have to factor in the price of annual steamroller rental.

I wonder how that meme got started? Who did the FIRST "print by steamroller" annual street party?

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#15 posted by Takuan , June 25, 2008 8:45 AM

remember that Malcolm in the Middle episode where the dad keeps sneaking away with a variety of strange objects?

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#16 posted by Anonymous , June 25, 2008 10:24 AM

mmm ... techincally ... thats not a steamroller, if anything, it appears to be diesel powered.